The editor-in-chief of far-left journal Mom Jones is dealing with a storm of backlash after trying to smear an Alaska Airways flight attendant collaborating in “creeping Christian nationalism” for wishing passengers a “blessed” night.
Clara Jeffery, who has been chief editor of the progressive publication since 2015, tagged the airline in a since-deleted X thread documenting her frustration with the worker:
“Creeping Christian nationalism alert: @AlaskaAir flight attendant simply wished us a ‘blessed’ evening as we landed in SFO (!) to our groans,” she wrote. “Different adjectives that will have sufficed: nice, superior, fabulous, superb, improbable.”
Jeffery additionally claimed that one other passenger in her row mentioned, “This ain’t Montgomery, sweetie” — seemingly referring to the Bible Belt metropolis of Montgomery, Alabama.
When confronted over her anti-Christian bigotry by fellow left-winger Armand Domalewski, the Mom Jones editor claimed the phrase “blessed” was disrespectful:
“Eh. It’s a matter of respect for the viewers earlier than you,” Jeffery replied. “Respecting their area and norms and needs. Dominant cultures all the time really feel they’ve a proper to implement their norms and intents. And…means off @AlaskaAir’s model.”
As an alternative of responding to the general public shaming of one in all their workers, Alaska Airways quietly untagged its X account from the thread.
“How is an air flight attendant from Alaska providing you the wealthy woman from the richest place in America properly needs the dominating one on this scenario?” requested journalist Zaid Jilani:
It didn’t take lengthy for different X customers to look via Jeffery’s tweets, discovering that she herself regularly says “God bless” and “blessed” to others:
Simply days earlier than her meltdown over the phrase, Jeffery wrote, “Bless Gisèle Pelicot. Hero,” in regards to the French girl who renounced her anonymity to show her alleged rapists in an ongoing public trial.
In 2019, Jeffery even mentioned that she was “blessed” on one other flight as a result of the seat subsequent to her was empty:
“Is that this Christian nationalism?” satirical parody web page Dr. Richard Harambe requested.
Different X customers identified that Jeffery’s phrases could possibly be seen as anti-black, as Montgomery is majority black in addition to Christian:
“I simply need to level out that Montgomery, Alabama is 60% black,” mentioned Atlantic contributor Tyler Austin Harper. “So it’s tremendous fucking humorous and progressive that the editor-in-chief of Mom Jones is shitting on a flight attendant for wishing her a blessed night by providing ‘this ain’t Montgomery, sweetie’ as a witty quip.”
“@ClaraJeffery by accident outed herself as a classist racist and is mendacity so as to backtrack,” one other person mentioned:
