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Editor Scott Vogel of small lifestyle magazine Houstonia has found himself at the center of a media whirlwind after cancelling the subscriptions of readers who took offense at a real estate ad featuring an interracial family.
Scott hadn't even really noticed the ad until he saw an email from an offended suburban Houston doctor stating, "I will not put this magazine in my reception!" Another subscriber complained he had to put the magazine in the trash, before his children saw it.
Scott was a little outraged himself, and promptly cancelled their subscriptions and wrote an op-ed saying racists needn't bother to subscribe. He's since been flooded with largely positive letters of support and new subscribers, although has received some criticism from people concerned about freedom of speech and if it was a business-like decision.
The offending ad is shown below.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/post...ly-in-my-magazine/?postshare=8591438070926263
Scott hadn't even really noticed the ad until he saw an email from an offended suburban Houston doctor stating, "I will not put this magazine in my reception!" Another subscriber complained he had to put the magazine in the trash, before his children saw it.
Scott was a little outraged himself, and promptly cancelled their subscriptions and wrote an op-ed saying racists needn't bother to subscribe. He's since been flooded with largely positive letters of support and new subscribers, although has received some criticism from people concerned about freedom of speech and if it was a business-like decision.
The offending ad is shown below.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/post...ly-in-my-magazine/?postshare=8591438070926263