Dara, I hold you in high regard for the work that you do and I enjoy listening to you on the weeds. You’re good at what you do. But she did say these things they’re talking about, right? I mean it’s not like they are making it up? It’s not a good look.
I’m going to be clearer about this:
@sarahjeong is one of the most insightful people we have on this entire internet. There is no way anyone will take her down with this laughable junk but they should all feel ashamed of themselves for trying.
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There is an incredibly important difference between someone mocking and expressing frustration with racism, and someone espousing racist views.
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And as it happens the Times also sees this as a useful distinction!https://twitter.com/NYTimesPR/status/1025048766825549830 …
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Ok so she realized her mistake, and doesn’t engage like that anymore. I’m cool with that. *lowers pitchfork* We’ve all said things we regret when frustrated. There’s an email out there from 1998 I’m not proud of.
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Wait, what are people trying to do to Sarah Jeong? I missed this
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They’re trying to get the Times to pull a Quinn Norton on her because she made a couple Twitter jokes about white people.
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A couple?
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Jokes? Swap white to any other colour, you'll be frothing at the mouth. But sure Dara, go ahead and tell me how funny these 'jokes' are and how I should be laughing right now.
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People like him are perfectly fine with blatant racism as long as it comes from someone on the left
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"him"
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SHHHHHH they are not going to be KINDER to me if they do not think I am a man
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That's assuming there is an actual they paying attention, which I do not so assume.
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"It's different when WE do it"
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It's absolutely none of my business who the Times hires, but you'll forgive me if I take her at her word when she says repeatedly she hates me to fucking death. It's instructive. I file it away, and move on.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Shame on you for encouraging her. What a joke. She should absolutely be held accountable for actions like anyone else. What a joke. Poor Sarah
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ah yes, we must hold her accountable for the heinous crime of...making some jokes about white people
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Ok, so let’s not call out the people who made gook jokes and that kind of deplorable shit either. All racism is funny now. I’m good with it
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How about LGBT stuff? Can I start in on those as well, because people have been mean to me before?
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You're presumably a grown man and you don't understand how power and prejudice interact with each other. Get off twitter and read a book.
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Being white doesn’t automatically give you power. I can show you where I came from and prove that. That is a bunch of BS. So, you are mad at rich people, not white people?
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