Being too passive-aggressive to visit the desk of a colleague sitting only several feet away from you:
Mr. Thrasher: Yes
Mr. King: Yes
Winner: No one. These two men have never met (until this Brooklyn drinking takes place!), despite the fact that Mr. King admits in his post:
I know he’s got a cubicle near mine, and he may have been at a staff meeting that I attended last week. However, I’ve never spoken a word to him.
That makes both of you look bad, Mr. King. Mr. Thrasher didn’t reply to your emails? Go over to his desk. Though we guess having a paper trail was 99% of your argument here, so you’d be more inclined to keep things in writing. And no, we don’t buy that he “may” have been in a staff meeting, since apparently your staff only has one journalist of color. Kind of hard to miss. Also, did you guys not go to your own office parties, because you’d think you would have seen each other at The Village Voice Choice Eats Awards last night.
Ultimate winner: Mr. King, as he has apparently proved his “not a racist” point sufficiently for Mr. Thrasher to promise never to publicly remark on his posts again. (Though he may do so over email, which Mr. King might then publish, making them public.)
