They're aggressively doubling down, too. Lots of chatter on their TL about how every critic is a violent racist troll and every librarian must support the article unconditionally.
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TBH the original article wasn't so bad. It explicitly presented itself as unfounded speculation, and the "Don't bother commenting just to tell me I'm wrong" is the same policy I follow in my own Web log - which is a personal Web log and not formal academic writing. But...
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Anybody should be able to say "I wonder whether this stupid idea is true" without penalty and that's how I read the original article.
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Rants Drive Rev ☯️ 🏴 😻 Retweeted Rants Drive Rev ☯️ 🏴 😻
There's no 'I wonder whether' in this, just an 'as we know'.https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/1118989366746058752 …
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Rants Drive Rev ☯️ 🏴 😻 @St_RevBut, see, I read the essay. Oh boy, did I read it. Switch 'white' for 'Jew' and 'POC' for 'white' and this could run on Stormfront. I actually did an edit to show this, but decided it would probably earn me a ban. I encourage you to try it yourself, though! pic.twitter.com/YgfO2IRckJShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
"I still have some thinking to do around this topic". Don't get me wrong it starts from bad assumptions and follows them to an incorrect conclusion, but it would not be notable or different from thousands of other forgettable Web log articles if not for the endorsement.
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Replying to @mattskala @St_Rev
"we need to burn all the Jewish art ... and now I'm thinking further" that's not exactly floating a random idea
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My main concern was that by tweeting it, LJ changed the context a lot.
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from ... racist to ... a different kind of racist?
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Replying to @MorlockP @mattskala
From random hate goblin, to hate goblin _embedded in a culture that glorifies race hatred_.
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