Every mildly Twitter famous person has a dozen screaming trolls in their mentions every day "WHY WON'T YOU RESPOND TO CRITICISM"
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Ronson's observation that, however much you might dislike Justine Sacco as a human being, the Saccogate thing was incredibly hypocritical People IN THE VIRAL THREAD were making jokes WILDLY more racist and evil than the original ("I hope they do give you AIDS", etc)
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Nobody called out that tweet and started a separate pileon on that person because that's just not where the social momentum was going that day, and the person who posted it probably knew it
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Somebody's gotta draw the black spot today!
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To tie it into current events, that's the bapp!n crew's whole shtick epitomized, I guess—and a major reason divisions this year are probably fatally acrimonious All these white people calling others racist for disliking people who aided in the inevitability of a rapist candidate
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Yeah - and like, that's also something that everyone's always kind of known, too. It's more direct on Twitter, but it's as old as humanity.
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