Conor Friedersdorf
Role at the time: Staff writer at The Atlantic writing an analysis article.
Condemned
Responding to
French’s posts demeaned the pictured people because of their race or ethnicity.
“Bo French’s xenophobia should force Republicans to confront the prejudice in their ranks.”
Why we used this label
Friedersdorf directly condemns the conduct under scrutiny as xenophobic and appearance-based prejudice.
Conor Friedersdorf condemns Bo French’s posts about Texas sports fans (opens in a new tab)Article discussing French’s posts and the criticism they generated.
Friedersdorf’s analysis characterizes the posts as bigoted and argues that the pictured fans were treated as foreign based on apparent ancestry.