I made mistakes. But my departure wasn’t the solution to the CBC’s problem with racism
“… The CBC did not offer me any public support. And I did not defend myself because I just wanted to return to work. In the midst of last year’s racial reckoning, I also felt it would have been wrong for me to play the victim card.
But my silence backfired as players on all sides used me as a cudgel to advance political interests. While some journalists offered public support, my most vocal defenders were free-speech warriors who wanted to make me a cautionary tale about the dangers of cancel culture. That distinction horrified me, because I’ve fought to cancel injustice my whole life. I resented being made a poster child of a movement I wasn’t part of.”
Just say no to the Kool-Aid kids – Go incognito
More here – Wendy Mesley writes her CBC departure won’t solve corporation’s “problem with racism”
