A staffer for the New Yorker who denounced Sydney Sweeney as an “Aryan princess” has spouted anti-white and antisemitic rhetoric in social media posts — before scrubbing her account after being called out on Friday.
Doreen St. Felix, 33, had written several racist posts on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, including that “whiteness fills me with a lot of hate” and that “the holocaust is the worst thing to happen to black people.”
The unearthed inflammatory tweets date back to 2014 — three years before the Haitian-American journalist was hired by the left-leaning magazine run by longtime editor David Remnick.
St. Felix deleted her X account after her comments resurfaced following her recent article for the Conde Nast-owned publication in which she criticized Sweeney’s American Eagle campaign.
In the 1,040-word piece that ran Aug. 2, she accused Sweeney’s fans of wanting to “recruit her as a kind of Aryan princess” and declared there were “plenty of reasons” to dislike the ad.
The ad has been panned by the “woke” mob for its play on words that boasts about the blonde star’s “great jeans.”
However, it was St. Felix who was feeling the heat after X users — including conservative journalist Chris Rufo — flooded The New Yorker’s site with screenshots of her past tweets.
In one tweet targeting white men dated in December 2014, St. Felix wrote: “You all are the worst. Go nurse your f–king Oedipal complexes and leave the earth to the browns and the women.”
Another simply said: “I hate white men.”
The resurfaced messages revealed a pattern of racially charged commentary spanning multiple years.
In one post, St. Felix admitted she “writes like no white is watching.”
Another declared that she “would be heartbroken if I had kids with a white guy.”
Her antipathy extended to broader cultural claims, including assertions that white people’s poor hygiene “literally started the bubonic plague, lice, syphilis.”
She also suggested that “we lived in perfect harmony w/ the earth pre whiteness” and blamed environmental destruction specifically on “white capitalism.”
Her posts also contained tone-deaf references to the Nazi slaughter of six million Jews.
In one tweet, she described what she called “the holocaust gesture,” writing that “it’s tricknological, when white people invoke the holocaust” because it “allows them to step out of their whiteness and slip on fake oppression.”
She also wrote that “the holocaust birthed trauma studies” and claimed it “explains a lot about why we get so many things wrong about how trauma comes.”
In another post, she claimed “the tolerability of racism is linked to how its acted out on brown bodies. The holocaust was not tolerable bc of white victims so it ended.”
St. Felix could not be reached for comment after deleting her social media presence.
The Post has sought comment from both Conde Nast and The New Yorker.
Many of her posts were written in late 2014 against the backdrop of racial tensions that were stoked by the police-involved deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner on Staten Island — both of whom were black. None of the officers involved were indicted.
A Dec. 5, 2014, tweet referenced The Post. She wrote: “there’s a slow, second holocaust against brown people in this country and the nypost ‘Supports the NYPD’ so they are terrorists as well.”
Social media users noted the apparent contradiction between St. Felix’s past statements denouncing capitalism and her living conditions.
Her listed address corresponds to a $1.3 million home in a gated Brooklyn community overlooking a marina.
St. Felix, who has also penned articles for Vogue and Time magazine, regularly contributes to The New Yorker’s Critics Notebook column.
Prior to her current role, she served as editor-at-large for Lenny Letter, a newsletter created by actress Lena Dunham, and worked as a culture writer for MTV News.
Forbes named her to their “30 Under 30” media list in 2016. The following year, she earned finalist status for a National Magazine Award in Columns and Commentary, ultimately winning in the same category two years later in 2019.
