Sounds Like An Unpleasant Place To Work

Surely one the most discriminated-against groups today are Japanese-Jewish-Americans, so I understand fully the roots of this diatribe posted at Romenesko by the Post's David Nakamura. It's in response to a Washingtonian story, noted by fishbowlDC,  in which Jeff Goldberg mentions being denied a job at the Post in 1989 because he wasn't Hispanic. Nakamura:

I was terribly sorry to read in the Washingtonian that your career at the Washington Post was doomed by diversity and that, in your words, an editor told you your spot here had to go to "a Hispanic." I feel your pain. After all, I stole several white people's jobs when I was hired in 1994 as an Asian sports writer here at the Post. Wonder if anyone ever complained about that? Of course, I'm only half Asian. My mother is Jewish. Would be a shame if people whispered to one another that that's why I got the job -- know what I mean, Jeff?...

More in that vein. Part of Goldberg's response:

Mr. Nakamura is apparently upset because I told the Washingtonian’s Harry Jaffe that my career at The Washington Post came to an end when an editor there informed me that I would not be hired to fill a permanent reporting slot on the city desk, on which I had been working for a year. The editor said: “We would like to hire you, but we have to hire a Hispanic for that slot.”

I did not complain to Mr. Jaffe about this editor’s comment. Nor did I assert, as Mr. Nakamura implies, that my career was “doomed by diversity.” My sin, in Mr. Nakamura’s eyes, it seems, was to answer truthfully a question from Mr. Jaffe about my time at the Post.

I was, of course, unhappy about this long-ago turn of events -- it was upsetting to me to have my time at the Post brought to a premature close; it was upsetting to lose a job because of the color of my skin; and it was especially upsetting because I was pretty-much broke at the time, and needed the paycheck. But even as this episode unfolded, I sort-of understood the decision, particularly because it seemed journalistically sound for the Post to seek to raise the number of Spanish-speaking reporters covering the city....

I just love identity politics.