From Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged:
My schedule has been kind of bananas lately, which has precluded regular blogging, but I couldn’t help but weigh in on The Atlantic‘s troublesome new affirmative action for conservatives hire, who has made statements in his columns, etc., that have been interpreted as racist, misogynistic, homophobic and transphobic. I think The Atlantic is perfectly free to promote a writer in the name of ideological diversity if the editors think this is a good thing to do, but they had best just recognize that disdain, contempt, cancelled subscriptions, and sternly-worded missives will, perforce, necessarily follow in the wake of such a decision.
No lie, I don’t read the National Review much, from which Williamson comes, although I can’t help but think that calling a small black child a “primate” and filling his mouth with an improbably stereotypical dialog (I feel, if not apocryphal, this child has certainly been embellished by the author) probably fit in far better there than it will at his new perch. But as for the outrage regarding his statements that women should be hanged for seeking abortions, which, it seems, Williamson has said more than once or twice, and not just in tweets?
Well, there’s your ideological diversity, because this isn’t some weird fringe-y thing that Williamson alone on the right has espoused at all.