Cancel culture is generational
Alexi McCammond is only 27 years old yet here she is in another headline-catching personal scandal. The name may sound familiar – she is the former Axios political reporter who was in a relationship with a Biden aide. That relationship was exposed when the aide threatened another reporter who was looking into the affair. White House deputy press secretary TJ Ducklo threatened a Politico reporter for investigating Ducklo and McCammond’s relationship. He told the reporter he would “destroy” her and then made crude accusations toward her. Naturally, the Politico reporter got that story out, and then Jen Psaki was asked about it during a White House press briefing. The Biden administration was hoping to sweep a story of a staffer in the press office having an affair with a reporter under the rug. No such luck. Ducklo was first suspended and then he resigned. McCammond left Axios. McCammond was hired by Conde Nast to be the new editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue. Teen Vogue was originally a magazine for young women that featured fashion and celebrities. Due to declining sales, the magazine is now an online-only publication and mixes in a heavy dose of liberal politics and current events. McCammond, who was tapped as a 2019 “Emerging Journalist of the Year” by the National Association of Black Journalists, had been at Axios since 2017, where she covered both the Biden White House and the Trump White House. She replaces Lindsay Wagner Peoples, who ran the teen mag since November 2017 before being tapped in January to run New York Magazine’s fashion vertical, The Cut. Instead of instructing minors on how to go about getting an abortion, the staff of Teen Vogue is busy canceling their new boss. When McCammond was 17, she did what a lot of young people do – she posted some tweets that now, ten years later, look racist and offensive. Conde Nast announced her hiring on Friday.
