7. Now, here is a very clear-cut case of @sullydish misrepresenting someone. Will he apologize? Will @NYMag issue a retraction & apology? LOL.
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8. It's easy enough to criticize Andrew Sullivan. Let's take it step further and ask about New York magazine editor Adam Moss (is he on twitter?)
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Jeet Heer Retweeted Andrew Sullivan
9. Adam Moss made the decision that
@sullydish, someone who finds Asian names & accents to be inherently funny, was a good person to write about the Jeong controversy.https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/363407519755939840 …Jeet Heer added,
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Jeet Heer Retweeted Andrew Prokop
10. Addendum. This lays out in an even clearer manner the fact that the tweet Sullivan objected to was one parodying Sullivan himself:https://twitter.com/awprokop/status/1025484876278112261 …
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Andrew ProkopVerified account @awprokopA play in three acts: 12/22/14: Sully defends running infamous race/IQ essay 12/23/14: Jeong parodies his "both sides" logic on Twitter 8/03/18: Sully sees that old tweet, doesn't realize it's making fun of him, calls her a racist. via@studentactivism pic.twitter.com/O36Y899pCU6 replies 47 retweets 283 likesShow this thread -
11. Addendum II: This by my colleague
@onesarahjones is good:https://newrepublic.com/article/150404/dont-call-harassed-writer-neo-nazi …10 replies 39 retweets 172 likesShow this thread -
12. Addendum:
@sullydish is avidly promoting a charming fellow who a) is offended at a joke making "rice cooking app for white people" b) repeatedly uses the phrase "white genocide" without irony. c) reads a joke about alt-right paranoia about "white genocide" literallypic.twitter.com/PsXrs0pePN
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13. The concept "white genocide" has a particular provenance. It's a signature concept of the alt-right.
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14. Here's the thing. If you are offended by "rice cooking app for white people" how do you deal with "White Men Can't Jump," Eddie Murphy's "White Like Me" or, in fact, 99% of hack stand up comedy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L104LViQeIw …
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15. Hypothesis: leftists tend to slightly over-rate Evelyn Waugh & Anthony Powell out of a nostalgia for conservatives who understood irony & satire.
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Perry Anderson. See recent LRB.
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