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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Aug 2018
      Replying to @BubblegumRevolt @CathyYoung63

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Jeet Heer

      This might help you understand the bad faith argument and the simple fact that she was parodying commonplace conservative rhetoric:https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1025538368145444864 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet
      1. Who wants to watch @sullydish egregiously & completely misrepresent another writer? It's an edifying experience.
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    3. Cathy Young  🇺🇦‏Verified account @CathyYoung63 4 Aug 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Leaving aside the fact that her parody itself was in extremely bad faith, that's *one* example. Was "dumbass white people marking the Internet with their bad opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants" a response to some conservative tweet as well?

      3 replies 1 retweet 10 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Aug 2018
      Replying to @CathyYoung63

      The example is meant to serve as synecdoche for the common rhetorical move in her tweets. I really don't see the necessity of doing a detailed explication of all of them.

      2 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Aug 2018
      Replying to @LBLRLST @CathyYoung63

      Counter-trolling doesn't require a response (the Sullivan parody didn't respond to Sullivan, just echoed his rhetoric). Her common move is to talk about white people the way right-wingers normally talk about black people. It's interesting that bothers you.

      2 replies 1 retweet 7 likes
    7. Cathy Young  🇺🇦‏Verified account @CathyYoung63 4 Aug 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet @LBLRLST

      (1) She didn't "echo Sullivan's rhetoric," but what she considers to be the "real" subtext of his arguments. (2) Please show me right-wingers ("normal" right, not alt right) who talk about black people the way Sarah Jeong talks about white people. I'll wait.

      5 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
    8. AdotSad‏ @AdotSad 4 Aug 2018
      Replying to @CathyYoung63 @HeerJeet @LBLRLST

      AdotSad Retweeted Ben Shapiro

      Replace "INTERSECTIONALITY CELEBRATION! Hollywood Picks Boring Black Gay Love Story For Best Picture" with "WHITE PEOPLE CELEBRATION! HOLLYWOOD PICKS BORING WHITE PERSON STORY FOR BEST PICTURE" and you'd have an equivalent lame Jeong "joke" tweet IMO.https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/836239725111345153 …

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      INTERSECTIONALITY CELEBRATION! Hollywood Picks Boring Black Gay Love Story For Best Picture http://www.dailywire.com/news/13896/intersectionality-celebration-hollywood-picks-ben-shapiro?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=news&utm_campaign=twitterbenshapiro … pic.twitter.com/6wufAXh6PZ
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    9. AdotSad‏ @AdotSad 4 Aug 2018
      Replying to @AdotSad @CathyYoung63 and

      AdotSad Retweeted Ben Shapiro

      Replace Colin Powell with white people and Obama with Trump.https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/261448058389291008 …

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      Ben ShapiroVerified account @benshapiro
      Let me be clearer. Colin Powell supports Barack Obama because Barack Obama is black. Powell didn't support Clinton, Gore, or Kerry.
      2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
    10. Cathy Young  🇺🇦‏Verified account @CathyYoung63 4 Aug 2018
      Replying to @AdotSad @HeerJeet @LBLRLST

      FWIW, I do think that some of Ben's tweets about Powell and Obama were racist.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Aug 2018
      Replying to @CathyYoung63 @AdotSad @LBLRLST

      And Shapiro is a completely respectably conservative (one repeatedly lauded in NY Times as it happens).

      11:06 PM - 4 Aug 2018
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        2. AdotSad‏ @AdotSad 4 Aug 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @CathyYoung63 @LBLRLST

          FTR, I don't think Shapiro is racist towards blacks in the classical sense. I'm 100% sure he'd vote for any black Republican over any white Democrat.

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
        3. Cathy Young  🇺🇦‏Verified account @CathyYoung63 4 Aug 2018
          Replying to @AdotSad @HeerJeet @LBLRLST

          Oh, I agree. I do think that at least at the time, he was willing to use racially demeaning rhetoric as a political tool.

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        2. Cathy Young  🇺🇦‏Verified account @CathyYoung63 4 Aug 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @AdotSad @LBLRLST

          He's only become one in the first couple of years because of his anti-Trump stance, though.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Cathy Young  🇺🇦‏Verified account @CathyYoung63 4 Aug 2018
          Replying to @CathyYoung63 @HeerJeet and

          He does get a lot of heat for the "Arabs like to bomb crap" tweet, which is the only one that I would say is similar in rhetorical tenor to the Jones tweet (and which, ironically, he's explained rather similarly as "out of context")

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