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This is how white women weaponize their tears to hide from the racially insensitive stuff they do. “I’m a bit shaken up” is not because she recognizes the error of her ways but because folks are calling her out—like how she calls out Chesa for not locking folks up fast enough. twitter.com/michelletandle

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People like you are bullies. You somehow manage to turn someone's genuine emotion into an attack against them, manage to justify your lack of compassion as something good and deserved. I'm disgusted. People like you born into the right situation would have committed atrocities.

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Sometimes you need someone to bully the faux victims—aka the true bullies. If not sparring the “feelings” of the comfortable and powerful so that the voices and concerns of the vulnerable and marginalized are heard, then so be it.

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I mean back in the day people thought the Jews were the true bullies. You can be deeply mistaken about who is being a true bully. Michelle very clearly was not being a bully.

6:56 PM · Jan 16, 2021

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Invoking the past doesn’t make for an apt comparison today. Could be true, but it’s not in this case. She over-indexed her convo to the techno, alt-right investor class while discussing an issue that disproportionately impacts black folks.

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People call her out for her insensitivity while folks like you treat her genuine tears as a proxy for her being correct in her choices and as a sword to dismiss those who justifiably corrected her for her poor decision.

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