Thor Benson, a white leftist freelance writer, racially profiled a random Asian man in New Orleans thinking he had found me just after midnight on April 8. He harassed the Asian victim and made him feel so uncomfortable that he left the bar.

Benson proudly announced this on his Twitter and his followers said the person should have been assaulted. Benson's racist tweet was liked by several leftist journalists including Slate's senior editor Jordan Weissmann, ex-AP journalist Bruno J. Navarro, Independent's columnist Ahmed Baba and David Lytle.

Benson is a contributor to The Daily Beast and Popular Science. The Daily Beast's editor-in-chief is Tracy Connor. She can be reached at Tracy.Connor@thedailybeast.com

Popular Science's editor-in-chief is Corinne Iozzio. She can be reached at corinne@popsci.com.

Jordan Weissmann, a senior editor at Slate who liked Benson's racist tweet, works under Slate president, Charlie Kammerer. Kammerer can be contacted at crkammerer@gmail.com [ngo.locals.com]