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New Teen Vogue editor-in-chief Alexi McCammond apologises for ‘idiotic’ anti-Asian tweets

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Newly appointed Teen Vogue editor-in-chief, Alexi McCammond, has found herself at the centre of a race storm over anti-Asian tweets she posted in 2011.

The controversy has forced her to issue a public apology for her online comments which she admitted were both ‘offensive’ and ‘idiotic’.

In a bid to head off the growing unease over her appointment Ms McCammond posted a statement on her Twitter during the week.

She wrote: ‘I’ve dedicated my career to giving a voice to the voiceless, and the last thing I’d ever want is to make anyone – especially our Asian brothers and sisters in particular – feel more invisible,’ she wrote. ‘And I know that that is a unique source of pain in all of this, too: That historically the AAPI [Asian American and

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