The NYT’s annual Holiday Gift Guide includes a page called “Of Color/Stylish Gifts” aimed at the paper’s non-white readers. The nytpicker suggests racism:
Found in the “Style & Travel” section of the Gift Guide, it stands alongside sections called “Frugal Travel,” “Chic and Cheerful,” and “Cosmetic Enhancements.”
But this page is the only one aimed squarely at readers whose skin isn’t white in color — and it’s the first time we can remember a gift guide, anywhere, openly defining its offerings by their appeal to a specific racial group.
Can you imagine the NYT designating a section of its Holiday Gift Guide to presents made “for and by white people”? Or Jews? Or Chinese? Of course you can’t.
What do you think?
Via Romenesko.