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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and

      I mean, again, I say this as a big fan of DFW, it's ironic that he brought up his cruise essay because it was fake in exactly the same way Mike Daisey's monologue was fake and he openly admitted it but nobody cared in that instance because cruise companies are cringe anyway

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and

      Daisey's defense that "Look in the world I come from of literary essays and dramatizations no one really cares if the stories you use as illustrations actually happened" is one of those awkward "It's true but he shouldn't say it" things

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    3. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent @banalexistence

      It seems like the kind of thing that only needs to be true if you're a boring white dude?

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @Nymphomachy @loudpenitent @banalexistence

      Well I mean Daisey did actually go to Shenzhen and even though nothing that happened there changed his mind about Foxconn being an abusive company there was also, reasonably, nothing super dramatic that happened that he could use for a story

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    5. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent @banalexistence

      Well, yeah, but it kind of feels like he already knew what kind of story he wanted to tell before he ever packed his bags, and went to Shenzhen just to lend credibility to it?

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @Nymphomachy @loudpenitent @banalexistence

      Sure But that's kind of the thing, it's ridiculous to think that his mind SHOULD have been changed by one trip to Shenzhen either way Going at all was part of the theater

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and

      Like what comes off as smarmier than saying "I took the tour of the factory and I have to say everyone was very nice to me"

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    8. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent @banalexistence

      I guess idk having it all laid out for me like that just kind of strikes me as the thing Ebert talks about in his review of Dead Poets Society if you're going to China to lend authority to the monologue you already know you want to write, why not just write something elsepic.twitter.com/GacU0OLdRM

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @Nymphomachy @loudpenitent @banalexistence

      Well I dunno I mean I think the criticisms of Daisey centering himself etc are fair, as are the ones saying he should've known Foxconn would fact check him to within an inch of his life But I mean if he really believed Foxconn was abusive should he just not have said anything

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    10. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent @banalexistence

      I guess I just think that the traditional way to inform somebody of capitalist abuse isn't in monologue form, like who among us can say we really learned that Chinese manufacturing concerns were exploitative from going to see Mike Daisey

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @Nymphomachy @loudpenitent @banalexistence

      ... A lot of people? That's kind of why it was a big deal when it blew up in his face, because the loss of credibility really hurt his cause It's also why people like Steve Wozniak stuck by him, because "He's the reason everyone even knows the word Foxconn"

      3:51 PM - 29 Apr 2020
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        2. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent @banalexistence

          I guess that's not how I remember it, I don't recall the Foxconn monologue influencing anything but his own career

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @Nymphomachy @loudpenitent @banalexistence

          You remember it differently from most people, then It's the first time complaints about manufacturing in Shenzhen really got media traction, and it was largely because he deliberately provoked controversy by tying it to Apple's brand and forcing them to respond

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