Leftist activist Talia Lavin’s undergraduate graduate journalism class was scrapped by the New York University after enrolling just two students. The class was called ‘Reporting on the Far Right’ and was centered around how to debunk fake news.
But that hasn’t stopped Levin from being a hypocrite, since she peddled fake news herself. The biased journalist had to resign from the New Yorker magazine after she falsely accused a disabled, innocent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent named Justin Gaertner of featuring a Nazi tattoo on his left arm.
The ICE clarified the incident by stating that Lavin “erroneously implied that a tattoo on one of his arms was an Iron Cross and essentially labeled him a Nazi.” Gaertner’s “Iron Cross” is actually “the Titan 2” symbol of his platoon in Afghanistan.
“Justin Gaertner is a combat wounded US Marine who continues to serve his country as an ICE computer forensics analyst, helping to solve criminal cases and rescue children who have been sexually abused,” the ICE announced, “He is a paralympic athlete who has volunteered his time to motivate other wounded warriors and Boston bombing victims.”
To be fair, Lavin did apologize, retract her accusation, and resign from her job.
But it looks like she isn’t too sorry after all. She soon replaced that deleted accusation with more Anti-fa content as well as pro-online censorship tweets. Even more insulting is her scamming fellow leftists by promoting her own PayPal link to get donations to start a “productive new phase.”
Additionally, she found a new gig as an “extremism researcher” at an even more leftist media company called Media Matters for America, which self-describes its mission as “comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.”
Adam Penenberg, NYU’s director of undergraduate journalism studies, stated that “it would make no sense” to find someone else to teach the course thanks to a lack of interest. Hopefully, the low interest was due to the students doing some fact-checking themselves. Either way, it’s rather unfortunate that the university administration didn’t cancel the course due to its extreme anti-right bias instead.
But fear not, social justice warriors. Other journalist classes will stick around to cater to leftist extremism, such as ‘Investigating Injustice’, ‘Minorities in the Media’, and ‘Writing Social Justice’. Best of all, there’s a ‘Writing About Immigration’ class, where instructor and activist Suketu Mehta will feature her latest book on a “timely argument for why the United States and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrants.”
To concluse, this incident is a small step for defeating a SJW, but a big step in continuing the SJW witch-hunt.
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