I'm horrified to see @wmarybeard is the focus of such horrible attacks on Twitter. The idea that my friend Mary is some sort of Neo-colonialist is ridiculous. Looking for reasons is not the same as condoning!
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I agree that Twitter isn't good at nuance. But I didn't see a lynch mob, I saw people carefully and politely explaining why the tweet was offensive.
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Comparing legitimate critique of white tears to a lynch mob is beyond offensive. Defending your friend at the cost of what's right makes your actions worse than hers. Have a word with yourself.
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What white people mean and what they actually do are often worlds apart. History is replete with well-meaning white peoples who have done untold damage to people of colour. Racism is about power, not about what white people ‘really mean’
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Can I borrow this wonderfully succinct point for my class on colonial humanitarianism on Thursday?
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I criticized her tweet... And I offered support when she was upset. At what point was I making myself a member of a lynch mob?
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This feels like a rerun of Mary's own tweet experience ( and a gazillion other Twitter discussions) . Make an ill thought out tweet and then dig the hole deeper and deeper through denial, as people point out the error.
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I'm surprised to see a renowned historian of black history use the word 'lynch mob' to describe a Twitter storm, especially one which primarily involves sustained critique of an influential white woman by woc. It is inappropriate and offensive to the history of actual lynchings
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It is all about reverse victimisation, don't you know? Witch hunts of roving
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fanatics and what not...same play.
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Outrageous as the tweet was, our real problem is with the *nuance* she laid out in her follow up. Calls to 'look for reasons' why white men feel entitled to rape black women denies agency/being to blacks. Mary had been carrying this old, racist, colonial habit of mind unchecked.
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Not to mention whether anyone seeking to inject some "nuance" into motivations for child & female exploitation should ever not be scrutinised rigorously for the content & motivation (consciously or not) of their doing so: what most of the measured responses sought to do.
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