So, what’s with the all-white cover of the new issue of The New Republic? Is it an in-depth photo essay on Snowstorm Nemo? A tribute to famous white beat combo The Beatles? A cost-cutting stunt to save ink? No, if you look closely, you see the featured story about Republicans is called, “The Party of White People: An Historial Investigation.”
Sigh. We at Twitchy looked into this phenomenon called “white people” during last year’s presidential campaign, when it was apparently a very big deal. These white people were everywhere, turning out for rallies for both parties in large numbers, and they dominated the lineup at the Democratic National Convention. The Republican Convention had plenty of featured speakers who weren’t white people, but you might not have seen them if you were watching MSNBC.
So what new information does The New Republic have to share? The always reliable Ace of Spades reached out to the magazine’s editor-in-chief and white person, Chris Hughes, to find out what’s up.
so your first editorial declaration at TNR was a lie? @chrishughes "no partisan bias"? First issue, GOP, the party of white people?
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
care to share the diversity figures at TNR? @chrishughes
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
Because based on the TNR writers I know, the palette ranges all the way from pasty to eggshell. @chrishughes
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
My favorite movie is Shattered Glass just because I'm afraid of Black People and there are no blacks at TNR @chrishughes
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
TNR is a little a little slice of Connecticut (Not New London) @chrishughes
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
Some of us dream of an All-White Nation… but in the meantime we content ourselves with TNR's offices. @chrishughes
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
My Kleagle friend just emailed me about TNR, @chrishughes. "They get it," he says.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
GOP: The Party of White People TNR: The Magazine of White People MSM: The Industry of White People @chrishughes
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
The GOP has a higher percentage of minorities than TNR does. Let's run the numbers and see what we see. @chrishughes
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
just because one of your extremely white staffers has a Ja Rule album (which he doesn't listen to) doesn't make him "diverse." @chrishughes
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
one time I got invited to a TNR party but I didn't go because it would look bad in my later career. The Augusta problem, and all @chrishuges
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
We don’t have a racial breakdown of The New Republic’s staff — strangely, it never occurred to us that we’d want to see such a thing — but we’d bet it’s almost as diverse as MSNBC’s primetime lineup, or Obama’s old campaign headquarters. So, what does #tnrdiversity look like?
TNR thinks it's diverse because one staffer once flipped through an issue of Vibe without reaching for his inhaler @chrishughes
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
TNR Diversity: Spencer Ackermann once caught twenty minutes of New Jack City @chrishughes
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
#tnrdiversity: Steven Glass once fabricated an article about Carl Weathers @chrishughes
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
#tnrdiversity: Jonathan Chait once flew coach and pronounced the coach culture to be "exotic, uninhibited" @chrishughes
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
#tnrdiversity: Andrew Sullivan once wondered "what Wesley Snipes is packing." @chrishughes
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
#tnrdiversity: The office is split evenly in passionate fandom, some for the English Premier league, others for Swarthy Wogs @chrishugues
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
#tnrdiversity: An albino polar bear, who is also a racist in the Klan, emailed me to say "TNR shames me" @chrishughes
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
#tnrdiversity: TNR's Diversity Officer's life is a non-stop swirl of dangerous experimental antidepressants and Shame-Cutting @chrishughes
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
#tnrdiversity: TNR's Diversity Officer is named Wilkins Brower Eeling III, and double-majored in squash and white privilege @chrishughes
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
#tnrdiversity, where children of the Upper Middle Educated Class mix seamlessly with Children of the Wealthy Professional Class @chrishughes
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
Stuff White People Like: #tnrdiversity
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
#tnrdiversity: We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock…. wait we did land on Plymouth Rock, carry on.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
#tnrdiversity: whiter than hockey, but without that virtually-ethnic blue collar element @chrishughes
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
#tnrdiversity so seriously @chrishughes you want to share with us TNR's diversity numbers? Or is that a big white secret?
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
#tnrdiversity TNR has another white publisher, and another white EIC, presiding over more white Editors. The names change, the race doesn't.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
#tnrdiversity Look at all the TNR minority staffers tweeting to rebut me… all zero of them. @chrishughes
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
It’s very possible that Ace has managed to do the near-impossible: create a job in the Obama economy.
#tnrdiversity right now @chrishughes is setting up a bike messenter with a twitter account and an office. You're welcome, Bike Messenger.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
@BrentCochran1 @chrishughes he looks hispanic in some light, though. His name is Garrison Carter. They've nicknamed him "Chico."
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 9, 2013
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