Right-Wing Cancel Culture Has a Home at Texas A&M University

In June, Texas A&M University held a public ceremony announcing the hiring of Kathleen McElroy—a veteran journalist, former New York Times editor, and Texas A&M alumnus—as the director of the school’s revived journalism program.

The university celebrated the hire in Texas A&M Today, and in a “recap” of the online reaction to the announcement obtained by The Daily Beast, the university’s social media coordinator wrote that it was “one of the most positively received stories we have shared” during his employment, eliciting “pretty unheard-of levels of positivity for today’s internet.”

But then Texas A&M diluted its initial offer to McElroy, and she decided to return to her former post at the University of Texas. The subsequent public outcry and fallout from the botched offer led to the resignations of university president M. Katherine Banks and interim dean Jose Luis Bermudez.

Read more at The Daily Beast.