If you do a twitter search on the words "jesse watters" and "fortune cookie," you'll find hundreds of Fox News viewers who hate Sarah Jeong's "racism" defending this segment.https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1025922961910325248 …
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Just a reminder that none of the right-wing "outrage" about Sarah is driven by actual opposition to racism. None of it. If it was, they'd go after Watters. They won't.
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I shouldn't have said "none," by the way. There are a few, I bet. But those few aren't the engine of what happened to Jeong this week.
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What's struck me more than anything else, having been put in the sights of the right wing during this week's paroxysm, has been how dominant charges of hypocrisy have been.
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There's been a bit of "she hates white people," but that hasn't been the main thing. Supposed racism has been the framing device, not the engine of the outrage.
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It's something Jeong's liberal and centrist critics would do well to remember: Most of her right-wing critics aren't actually offended by what she said. They're angry that she gets to say it.
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Replying to @studentactivism
Speaking of liberal and centrist critics, I have noticed a lot of them using the term “anti-white” to describe Jeong’s Tweets. I’ve only seen accounts with Pepe avatars and the like using the term “anti-white” before.”
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We are in such a fucked timeline
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