Celebrated New Yorker staff writer Doreen St. Felix, who formerly contributed to Vogue and Time, has sparked a controversy after a cache of her old tweets surfaced, including a series of vile, anti-white remarks.
Late social media users, such as conservative writer Chris Rufo, exposed the controversy by unearthing tweets from 2014 that contained startling statements like “I hate white men,” “Whiteness fills me with a lot of hate,” and “Whiteness must be abolished.” She went farther in one tweet, mocking overt Oedipal complexes and pushing them to leave the world to the women and browns.
It might not be about the jeans, in my opinion.ky3Xg9KGAs https://t.co/aHjepNLYwcpic.twitter.com
August 14, 2025, memetic_sisyphus (@memeticsisyphus)
In other inflammatory articles, St. Felix dismissed white people’s contributions to environmental stewardship and asserted that their alleged lack of hygiene was the cause of diseases like syphilis, lice, and the bubonic plague. Invoking a very tone-deaf reference to genocide, one writer even highlighted her assertions that Black people suffered more during the Holocaust than Jews did.
Soon after Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle commercial campaign was criticized by St. Felix in The New Yorker, the tweets reappeared, accusing fans of elevating the actress to the status of an Aryan princess. Users reacted negatively to that column, but as her previous posts surfaced, the criticism intensified, and she decided to completely delete her X account. The New Yorker’s platform was inundated with screenshots from users, and one commenter remarked, “She doesn’t seem very neutral.”
St. Felix, 33, is no stranger to praise; she has received a National Magazine Award for commentary and was designated a 30 Under 30 honoree by Forbes. She has edited Lenny Letter and written prominent cultural critiques for The New Yorker.
The writer for the New Yorker, Doreen St. Felix, has deleted her account after claiming that white people make her feel hateful and that they are genetically prone to spreading epidemics.Twitter: pic.twitter.com/1YelVshckE
August 15, 2025 Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo)
She has a respectable career, but criticism have been harsh, with some sites calling her the staffer who called Sydney Sweeney an Aryan princess after her outbursts on social media were made public. Others, on the other hand, made fun of her for what they saw to be racist and supremacist views, implying that her views have not evolved since she was employed.
Cond Nast, the parent company of The New Yorker, and St. Felix herself have refrained from commenting since the controversy. Speculation on her future with the magazine has only grown since she abruptly deleted her X account and refused to respond to the storm. People are wondering what this means for editorial control, whether her previous statements will influence her future work, and whether it will cost her a position at one of the most powerful organizations in contemporary media.
According to Doreen St. Flix, the Diddy verdict illustrated the gap between the law and real-world experiences.This link: https://t.co/k644UrvWgO
July 4, 2025, The New Yorker (@NewYorker)
A once-respected voice in cultural criticism is now involved in a scandal that she caused, and her growing reputation as a significant writer clashes with her vicious online past. Millions of readers question if The New Yorker will support a contributor who has been accused of racism in light of Doreen St. Felix’s past, which has become a public spectacle. In the current digital era, old posts are never really deleted, and occasionally they are all that is needed to destroy a reputation that has been meticulously cultivated.
While it is unclear what her employer will do next, St. Felix is probably going to apologize.
