Screenshots and message logs obtained by The Crimson appear to show Salient leaders casually using racial slurs, defending extremist rhetoric, and dismissing internal concerns — conversations that later became central to the board’s decision to suspend the magazine.

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    1 month ago

    The magazine’s editor-in-chief, Richard Y. Rodgers ’28, eventually issued a statement standing behind the piece and saying any invocation of Nazi language was unintentional.

    Being “accidentally a Nazi” does not make things better…

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
      6·
      1 month ago

      Mind you, the next paragraph makes it clear that the claim of accident is a lie

      draft versions of the article suggest that, at the very least, members of the Salient were aware that the article’s contents invoked Nazi ideology.

      Which is exactly what Nazis do — treat language as a tool for manipulation, not a means of communication.

      • rainwall@piefed.socialEnglish
        5·
        1 month ago

        The piece is just rife with the Nazi shit the whole org was up to, but its explictly clear that editor is hip deep in it.

        Very good piece from the student journalists.