Amber Athey, a conservative journalist, was fired from her post at a local radio station on March 9 for what the station called a "racist" tweet making fun of Kamala Harris's outfit.
The March 1 tweet simply stated: "Kamala looks like a UPS employee — what can brown do for you? Nothing good, apparently," referring clearly to a recent brown outfit worn by the Vice President in public:
Kamala looks like a UPS employee — what can brown do for you? Nothing good, apparently.
— Amber Athey (@amber_athey) March 2, 2022
As Athey herself wrote in her article on Spectator World (which has steadfastly refused to take any action against her), "No one had a problem with the tweet until a few days later, when I spoke critically of protests in favor of 'trans kids' at the University of North Texas."
"A group of maniacal left-wing activists who want to chemically castrate children in the name of 'gender affirmation' came after me."
"All of a sudden, the Kamala tweet was being re-framed as racist and dozens of Twitter accounts were bragging about contacting my employers about my 'bigotry,'" she continued.
While Spectator World "laughed at and promptly deleted the angry emails about my Kamala tweet, ... this wasn’t the case for my radio station, WMAL," stated Athey. She had been working there for some months now on the station's morning show.
On the afternoon of March 9, she received a call from the vice president of WMAL's parent company, and also an official from the company's Human Resources department. They told her she was fired, "effective immediately."
Athey iterated that they never even bothered to ask for her side of the story, and even at one point admitted that this was more about "the perception of racism" than any actual racism.
Athey went on: "If I can be fired for making fun of the vice president’s outfit, every single host on a Cumulus station is in danger of losing their job at a moment’s notice."
"Political commentary is worthless if it can’t be used to speak truth to those in power without fear of professional consequences."
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