The editor-in-chief of Scientific American, which was founded in 1845, has stepped down after calling people who voted for President-elect Donald Trump fascists.
Laura Helmuth announced on Nov. 14 on the social media website Bluesky that she was resigning.
“I’m going to take some time to think about what comes next (and go birdwatching),” Helmuth wrote.
After returns showed Trump on track to win the recent election, Helmuth took to Bluesky to apologize to younger people “that my Gen X is so full of [expletive] fascists.”
“Solidarity to everybody whose meanest, dumbest, most bigoted high-school classmates are celebrating early results because [expletive] them to the moon and back,” she also wrote. “Every four years I remember why I left Indiana (where I grew up) and remember why I respect the people who stayed and are trying to make it less racist and sexist. The moral act of the universe isn’t going to bend itself.”…