Another Philly Inquirer editor makes headlines — this one for son's 2017 racist, homophobic posts. Paper calls it a 'private family matter.'

It's been a rough few days for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Over the weekend top editor Stan Wischnowski was forced to resign due to a column titled, "Buildings Matter, Too" — a play on the term Black Lives Matter that infuriated staff members of color.

Now it's come to light that the son of another top editor at the paper used racist and homophobic slurs in two social media posts three years ago, the Inquirer reported.

What are the details?

Gabe Escobar — an 18-year-old incoming Temple University student and son of Inquirer editor and vice president Gabriel Escobar — used the N-word in one post and homophobic slurs in two others on Snapchat in 2017, the paper said.

A Twitter user highlighted those posts last week, identified Escobar, and listed the phone number and email address for Temple's admissions office, the Inquirer said.

"We're aware of this content and the student associated," Temple tweeted on Thursday, according to the paper. "We have sent this information to our dean of students for further review and investigation."

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The issue surfaced as The Inquirer was facing public criticism and internal turmoil over its treatment of journalists of color and an insensitive headline the paper ran last week. Escobar's father was one of three editors who issued an apology for that headline, which had been written by another staffer and was seen as suggesting an equivalence between the loss of buildings and the lives of black Americans. Three days after that apology, Inquirer Executive Editor Stan Wischnowski announced his resignation.

'I am so sorry'

The younger Escobar posted a 13-minute apology on Instagram regarding his past posts, the paper said.

"I am so sorry to anyone I've hurt or disappointed by seeing these screenshots with hate speech and for the poor judgment I've had," Gabe Escobar wrote, the Inquirer noted. "I can't take back these screenshots or anything I did in high school, I know that, so all I can do is apologize and try to educate people so they don't make the same mistakes I did."

Escobar has nearly two million followers on Tik Tok and asked others to judge him for who he is today, the paper said.

What did his father say?

"My son knows that what he sent on Snapchat, when he was 14, is hateful and hurtful," the elder Escobar said in a statement, according to the Inquirer. "He has publicly apologized, beginning last fall when the screenshots surfaced. He has also committed himself to spreading a positive message to his followers on social media. His mother and I admire how he has expressed remorse and taken responsibility. We love and support him."

What did the paper have to say?

Elizabeth H. Hughes, publisher of the Inquirer, said in a statement to the paper that "the social media posts in question are offensive and are contrary to our core values and beliefs. We believe this is a private family matter, and we respect their right to work through what is clearly a painful and difficult situation in private."

Anything else?

Temple officials are grappling with condemning hate speech while honoring First Amendment free speech rights, the Inquirer noted, adding that a petition calling on Temple to require the "condemnation and immediate expulsion" of students for racist or hateful speech has gained over 3,700 signatures.

In related news, the editor of the New York Times' editorial page — James Bennet — resigned Sunday amid outrage from employees and readers over an op-ed by Arkansas GOP Sen. Tom Cotton saying President Donald Trump should invoke the Insurrection Act and use military force to stop nationwide George Floyd riots.