My experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice Magazine
I&#x27;m not sure I really understood this - a mixture of skimming and the author implying things without stating then directly.<p>The author suggests that Vice misled her in early talks, gathered information about her that should&#x27;ve been off limits for the story but shared it anyway despite her pleas for them not to. My first read of this was that she&#x27;s gay and was concerned how that would look to a Chinese audience and Vice exploited that for attention.<p>I skimmed the Vice article too - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;motherboard.vice.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;article&#x2F;3kjqdb&#x2F;naomi-wu-sexy-cyborg-profile-shenzhen-maker-scene" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;motherboard.vice.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;article&#x2F;3kjqdb&#x2F;naomi-wu-s...</a> and that didn&#x27;t really seem to be it. I have to confess I couldn&#x27;t understand what she objected to in the Vice article. However, as the author writes about the Vice editors, I&#x27;m not in any position to understand what is or isn&#x27;t concerning to share for a Chinese woman with a large social media following living in China.<p>Without really understanding what the disagreement is I have to withhold my judgment. However, if I&#x27;m ever in a position where Vice would want to interview me I&#x27;d probably turn them down after reading this purely out of caution.<p>The complaint about Sarah Jeong seems a bit more clear - Jeong dismissed the author&#x27;s concerns claiming to be able to evaluate them fairly because they were both Asian women. Jeong&#x27;s perspective though is as an ethnic Korean who has lived in the US pretty much her entire life (moved to the US at age 3) which is clearly a very different perspective than the author who is a Chinese citizen.<p>Given what else we know about Jeong I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s that surprising that she&#x27;s insensitive about race.