Virtue Signal Received
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I don’t always agree with Dreher. But, when I do it’s about liberal lunacy like this.
Too bad. I subscribed to NG from 1967-2007, starting at age 10. I even received “NG Bulletin” for kids (1967-1969). The Grosvenors were in charge and politics was not their schtick. It was nature, science, American and foreign geography and history, with great photography and first-class maps. When some gave them flack for the way they showed boundaries after conflicts in India-Pakistan or after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, they said “we show recognized boundaries and lines of control” and no further comments. Even when reporting on Iron Curtain countries, they let conditions speak for themselves. I stopped taking NG when the new editors got too “topical” for my taste.
I loved NG as a kid also, especially their articles on the Civil War. I recall a 1966 issue: 900 years since the Norman Conquest. Leftism poisons everything it touches.
What would give heft to her lament would be if she stepped down and took a job flipping burgers so an ethnic minority could have her job instead.
She could have looked in a mirror and emptied a revolver into her head . . .
Go on Twitter and let National Geographic KNOW what you think.
https://twitter.com/Saul33102118/status/1402046090950631426
Be civil, now. But blast them for their racist hypocrisy. Let them know what disgusting and vile creatures they are. Make them feel shame at being exactly what they accuse you and me of being – RACIST.
Race card: white, privileged and much to EARN.
She’s woken up one day and panicked and decided if she doesn’t jump on this race bandwagon quickly then her job is on the chopping board. That’s what it’s all about.
Dave G. makes an excellent point. Where is the leadership by example?
She’s woken up one day and panicked and decided if she doesn’t jump on this race bandwagon quickly then her job is on the chopping board. That’s what it’s all about.
She’s been in the editor’s chair for several years. Have a look at her background. She’s just the sort of person who swallows hooey whole. A majority state in the publication has now been sold to Disney, so it’s not likely to be more committed to intellectual seriousness and integrity in the future. Take a gander at the ruin of Scientific American in the last 30 years if you want to see what the future holds for National Geographic. The new president of the National Geographic Society was at one time a serious academic; don’t know if she still is; since a controlling interest in the property’s been sold I don’t think she’ll have much influence over the editorial direction of the publication or the staffing.
GregB, very few modern crusades are waged by those who seem to have any desire to sacrifice for the cause. Proxy martyrdom seems to be all the rage, whereby there is no end to the millions of others I’m willing to let pay the price for my righteous crusade.
Yeah Art, so what you are saying is she’s a mere figurehead with not much intellectual input into what the magazine publishes…This seems to be happening more in the corporate world, to bulk up the female numbers and perhaps appoint a leader easily swayed.
Not sure what she earns but I would assume if she was saying things contrary to liberal thinking or if she stayed silent on the issue, she would be a target. Don’t think any of these people believe or practice what they are advocating