A Facebook Engineer’s Plea for Political Diversity(quillette.com)
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A Facebook Engineer’s Plea for Political Diversity
https://quillette.com/2018/09/04/a-facebook-engineers-plea-for-political-diversity/
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The author of the original piece (Gideon) is quoting a different author (Brian). The "[sic]" is not about amplifying a spelling mistake, but rather to make clear that the quote is 100% verbatim.
"inserted after a quoted word or passage indicates that the quoted matter has been transcribed or translated exactly as found in the source text [sic]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic
"They know all the talk of “openness to different perspectives” does not apply to causes of “social justice,” immigration, “diversity,” and “equality.” On this [sic] issues, you can either keep quiet or sacrifice your reputation and career."
So, "[sic]" here means that although it looks like it should have been "these" instead of "this", the editor understands that "this" is correct and should be kept despite initial impressions of a mistake. So, why "this"? It's not the editor trying to amplify the author's spelling mistake, is it?