New York Post

Teen Vogue twist

Anti-Alexi aide’s N-bombs

- By LEE BROWN lbrown@nypost.com

A senior Teen Vogue staffer who opposed Alexi McCammond’s hiring as editor-in-chief of the magazine over troubling tweets she wrote as a teen had herself repeatedly dropped the N-word in online posts, a report said.

Christine Davitt, a senior social-media manager at the Condé Nast mag, earlier this month posted to Instagram a letter by Teen Vogue staffers complainin­g about McCammond’s hiring “in light of her past racist and homophobic tweets,” according to Fox News.

“So proud of my @teenvogue colleagues. The work continues . . . ” Davitt wrote in the post on her Instagram account, which along with her Twitter account, has since been made private.

McCammond, 27, a former Axios reporter, announced her resignatio­n from Teen Vogue on Thursday, days before she was slated to begin work there, saying her tweets as a 17year-old college student had “overshadow­ed” her work since then.

About an hour after the announceme­nt, Davitt tweeted, “[Exhales the deepest sigh I’ve ever sighed],” according to Fox News.

Yet Davitt — who calls herself a “queer fat filipinx femme in brooklyn” in her Instagram bio — still had up old tweets of her own in which she used the N-word, Fox News reported.

She at least twice referred to a friend, who appeared to be white, as a “n---a” in 2009 and the next year used the same word in a joke tweet, Fox News reported.

Davitt is of mixed Irish and Filipino descent, her messages said.

Teen Vogue had in October 2019 published a story titled, “Stop Using the N-Word If You’re Not Black.”

“One thing that shouldn’t be up for dispute is who gets to use it. And if you ain’t Black, that ain’t you,” the article said.

McCammond had apologized and deleted her own offensive tweets when they first came to light in 2019 and apologized again amid complaints after she was announced for the top job.

The offending tweets included one in which she said she was Googling to find out how to avoid waking up with “Asian eyes” and another in which she complained about a “stupid Asian” teaching assistant. She also wrote in another tweet that she had been “outdone” by an Asian.

Fox News said it couldn’t reach Davitt, McCammond or Teen Vogue for comment.

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