"I got owned because I reflexively lied" is a great way to start an article. Builds a lot of confidence in the narrator.

Even if this was real, which it wasn't, mentioning a fancy and expensive sandwich is probably not gonna be a problem just as long as you talk about what you love about the sandwich rather than how expensive it is.

It's journalism anyways, people are gonna be used to having to hang out with rich assholes.

Also took a look at the article itself and he thinks doing right wing whataboutism and "this superficially sounds like this other thing" type shit was brave internal truthtelling at NYT.

People started snapping their fingers in acclamation.

Fuck Chick-fIl-A but if this happened to me I would walk out and never come back. Absolutely caucasian behavior

“We don’t do that here. They hate gay people.”

So does the NYT. If you make up a story about how you got scolded because you came off as a bigot because you lied to avoid coming off as a nepo baby, at least pick a minority the NYT cares about, like landlords or secretaries of defense.

There are inception-level layers of internalized antisemitism here.

-my actual favorite sandwich is too Jewish

• I need to come up with another sandwich -but it can’t be too expensive
• or too cheap
• guess I’ll pick the culture war chicken -time to blame my coworkers for being too woke.

"Of course $19 is very expensive for a sandwich, so I only get it as a special treat."

There, I just fixed your problem without you having to endorse the homophobic chicken.

I often found myself asking questions like “Doesn’t all of this talk of ‘voter suppression’ on the left sound similar to charges of ‘voter fraud’ on the right?” only to realize how unwelcome such questions were.

These things that happen are the same

Ah yes what do the poors love to eat? Not the $19 sandwich from Bourgeois Food And Sons

That sandwich name sounds like an ethnic slur

Love the idea of being snapped at like I was on the wrong side of the street in West Side Story

Americans be like:

Oh yeah my favourite sandwich is the Chick-fil-A™ Spicy Pollo Surprise instead of just saying "spicy chicken sandwich"

???

Absolutely deranged.

"Waiter, could I please get some Hellmann's™ brand Real Mayonnaise and Grey Poupon™ brand Dijon mustard to go on my Tyson Foods® brand chicken sandwich and a glass of Minute Maid™ orange juice?"

Like you don't have to specify what chain your BLT comes from to give off the "I like bacon, lettuce and tomato together on bread" message across to someone.

My man is actively trying to become a Chapo reading series

If this happened when Chick-fil-A first got called out for this shit, I'd believe it. Libs were falling head over heels about how they didn't eat there. For like 3 months.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240226125852/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/tom-cotton-new-york-times/677546/

Unpaywalled archive.

The New York Times does fun little introduction games with candy and storytime about sandwiches because it's an adult daycare facility for people who've never had a single obstacle in their entire lives

this never happened. i am prepared to believe a lot about the nyt (especially them being rank hypocrites who care a lot about the appearance of being bigoted but not any actual material harm done) but i disbelieve any anecdote by an atlantic writer sight unseen

My Uncle actually works as a journalist for NYT (not joking), and he can confirm that this definitely happened (joking)

Looks like rats fleeing a sinking ship

How the fuck does a sandwich cost 19 American dollars?

Remember when being a heretic was badass and you risked excruciating death by the sickest fucks to ever live? Now you just have to be a boogie dumbass and lie about a shitty fast food preference. Return to tradition.

Was going to make a Westside story joke here, but I was beaten to it.

I think this story is a perfect example of lib praxis though. They said the bad thing, and were corrected, like a child. No punishment or investigation, just "don't say the bad words."

This could've led to a discussion about how awful people can sometimes still produce quality or popular products, and how empty "culture war" virtue signalling doesn't actually do anything useful. All of the "we shall not speak the Voldemort name of the homophobic chicken sandwich restaurant." stuff has failed to cause any sort of change, the company is still around, and still homophobic.

But such a discussion would require self-awareness and analytical skills, and none of these people would've landed their job at the New Yorker if they had those.

If it's a thing that actually happened - why didn't everybody cheer at the end?

I didn't know the NYTimes wrote AITA posts on reddit

And then they started circling, shrieking, tearing bits of my flesh piece by piece, throwing their heads back and swallowing like birds