“What is also true is that as a white woman, I did not look at that quote in the context in which I was using it, or in general, and see the ways it perpetuated stereotypes and could expose her to vulnerability,” she added. People are going to believe what they want to believe.

I took notes visibly and contemporaneously while she was talking,” Kohn said. “I had consent to quote Amina, she said the quote.

Kohn says she stands by her original reporting and the fact that the conversation was on the record (which Sow has disputed), but apologized for “print words that hurt someone” she says the quote has been removed from digital and future printings of “The Opposite of Hate.” (Disclosure: As she says in the interview, Swisher is personal friends with Sow.) Kohn is white Sow and Oluo are black, and the quote in question paints Sow as violent and threatening. On the latest episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, Kohn responded to accusations that she misquoted Call Your Girlfriend co-host Aminatou Sow and misrepresented writer Ijeoma Oluo by pitting the alleged misquote and some of Oluo’s past tweets against one another. Ironically, Kohn’s publicity tour for the book has been tangled up in a bitter misunderstanding about race, privilege and reporting. CNN political commentator Sally Kohn’s new book, “The Opposite of Hate,” prescribes that to fight against bigotry and hatred, we must first understand it.

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