Deleted Post Save Mike Pesca! Well Save His Job
I wrote a post about Mike Pesca but the truth is I've never met him and I don't care.
Here was the original post, dated Feb 23, 2021:
Mike Pesca is one of the few audiocasters right now who doesn't speak in what I call "NPR voice": that whispered, academic timbre that just sounds left-leaning. His intonations instead contain punctuation, even enthusiasm. Which is rare. He speaks with energy. But he's been suspended indefinitely as of yesterday. Why? Pesca's suspended because he said in a Slack discussion when he thought it was appropriate for a non-black journalist (or was it white journalist?) to use the N-word (rhymes with trigger).
This is very concerning to me because I'm left-of-center and it raises hairs on my neck, so I feel a responsibility to voice out loud my concerns. I do this because if I'm feeling it, many people who won't bother to say so are absolutely feeling it and making backup plans of their own.
Pesca's suspension follows on the heels of the San Francisco School Board members denying the application of a gay white father from serving on a parent committee because though he was homosexual, his whiteness meant he did not offer enough diversity.
I know mixed-race genZers who tell me they interpret straight white men of the boomer and GenX age groups as "scary" in a way they cannot identify. We've gotten to the point where we defer to the young adults simply because they're mixed-race. If non-mixed race genZers (white genZers) voiced feeling intimidated, their elders would have told them to get over their discomfort.
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Here was the original post, dated Feb 23, 2021:
This is very concerning to me because I'm left-of-center and it raises hairs on my neck, so I feel a responsibility to voice out loud my concerns. I do this because if I'm feeling it, many people who won't bother to say so are absolutely feeling it and making backup plans of their own.
Pesca's suspension follows on the heels of the San Francisco School Board members denying the application of a gay white father from serving on a parent committee because though he was homosexual, his whiteness meant he did not offer enough diversity.
I know mixed-race genZers who tell me they interpret straight white men of the boomer and GenX age groups as "scary" in a way they cannot identify. We've gotten to the point where we defer to the young adults simply because they're mixed-race. If non-mixed race genZers (white genZers) voiced feeling intimidated, their elders would have told them to get over their discomfort.
This work by AJ Fish is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
