By Variety Staff Follow Us on Twitter Several New York Times staff members are criticizing an op-ed written by Arkansas Sen.
Tom Cotton that was published on Wednesday. They argue the piece, titled “Tom Cotton: Send In The Troops,” puts its Black employees in danger.
Cotton’s op-ed called for the military to use an “overwhelming show of force” towards the nationwide protests over police brutality, following the death of George Floyd.
Jazmine Hughes, a story editor at The New York Times, criticized the piece, tweeting “as if it weren’t already hard enough to be a black employee of the New York Times.” More than a dozen others tweeted similar messages Wednesday evening.
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