EXEC: what do we do about jeff lord
HR: we can say his schtick of calling black people racists is tiresome and inconsistent with our editorial direction
EXEC: that’s all he’s ever done, though
HR: yeah
EXEC: like it’s basically the reason we hired him
HR: yeah
EXEC: calling black people racists is super popular
HR: I know
EXEC: he could object and he’d kind of have a point
HR: maybe we could say we’ve changed our editorial direction
EXEC: no then I look dumb
HR: ok
EXEC: he is pretty racist now that I think about it
HR: yeah we’ve had complaints
EXEC: I guess hiring him as a commentator in the first place was kind of racist
HR: lol who are you, my anonymous complaints inbox
EXEC: lol
EXEC: we didn’t do anything about the complaints though did we
HR: god no
EXEC: lol
HR: lol
EXEC: so what else can we do
HR: we can say he said nono words and completely divorce them from context and then if people complain we can say hm very telling that you are the one who is defending the racist, never wondered about you before, very hm indeed
EXEC: why would we do that
HR: well then we can fire anyone whenever we want because people say dumb shit all the time
EXEC: what did he even say?
HR: he said “seig heil” to some guy at media matters
EXEC: that’s awesome
HR: well he was obviously trying to call the other guy a nazi. like it was in the column they were talking about. he calls liberals nazis all the time
EXEC: he’s sort of a nazi himself though. like everybody says
HR: sure whatever
EXEC: who cares lol okay let’s do that one
HR: lol okay
EXEC: lol
HR: lol