(Jewish Group) A fashion podcaster wanted to call out white privilege. Now she's being accused of an

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A fashion podcaster wanted to call out white privilege. Now she’s being accused of antisemitism.

For years, my wife told me her outlook on fashion was inspired by Man Repeller, the edgy publication founded by Leandra Medine Cohen, a Jewish prep school graduate who encouraged her followers to dress for themselves, not for the men around them.

Last year, we both watched as Medine Cohen stepped down from Man Repeller, then closed it, after facing backlash for firing one of her few Black employees a few months before last summer’s racial justice protests.

So on Thursday night, when I learned that she had recorded an interview that was widely panned as a self-involved disaster, I was curious enough to listen. But when I tuned into the episode of the podcast, called “The Cutting Room Floor,” and hosted by designer Recho Omondi, I was surprised by what I heard — not because of what Medine Cohen said, but because her interview was bookended by antisemitism.

Near the beginning of the episode, Omondi, who is Black, discussed the racist origins of the United States — and falsely implicated Jews.

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This is what happens when one thinks only two types of bigotry exist, racism and sexism. I also love...I mean LOVE the part about "Other Instagram posts from Omondi screenshot tweets from Jewish women praising the episode,..." "SEEE! SEEE! There are Jews who are cool with what I said! SEE!"