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

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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 May 2020

      Arthur Chu Retweeted Tom Whyman

      Oh wow this analysis This is the kind of analysis I typically resist but I'm actively gobsmacked at how Sarah Ditum successfully derailed Owen Jones' argument about exposing cleaners to infection risk into one about whether he, personally, hates/disrespects working mumshttps://twitter.com/HealthUntoDeath/status/1258328953158336512 …

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      Tom Whyman @HealthUntoDeath
      Public patreon post on how the media have started trying to make absolutely everything about Owen Jones https://www.patreon.com/posts/36844377 
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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 May 2020

      And IT WORKS, and in the gleeful pileon to call Owen a He-Man Woman Hater everyone starts quietly coming around to the idea that YES, we SHOULD expose cleaners to the virus by making them come back to work, or at least "empathize" with the people who want them to

      2 replies 6 retweets 36 likes
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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 May 2020

      But if you try to engage with that idea itself - with how monstrous it is on the face of it, and how monstrous it is to call it "feminist" to put poor women at physical risk because it benefits wealthy women - suddenly YOU'RE the one changing the subject, which is now Owen

      1 reply 5 retweets 43 likes
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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 May 2020

      You're "swooping in to defend Owen like always" You're one of Owen's "legion of followers" out to "protect his reputation" and "obscure his record of misogyny" Like we all suddenly agreed Owen was the topic at hand, like we're here to be the jury at his trial

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 May 2020

      I don't CARE about Owen, no offense to him We were never talking about him as a human being, we were talking about lifting work restrictions in the UK due to the pandemic The people who will die if we do that don't give a shit about Owen Jones or your opinion of his character

      1 reply 5 retweets 38 likes
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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 May 2020

      Why are people in the UK so fucking concerned about Owen Jones Why aren't you concerned about Boris Johnson, why doesn't he catch this smoke from you Why don't I get to ask you why you're caping for Boris and defending his policy and covering up his record of misogyny

      2 replies 3 retweets 45 likes
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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 May 2020

      This is just such an extreme example of what Extremely Online Types - to cite a video about this topic I recently watched - call the "Mascot and Meme" strategy

      12:33 AM - 14 May 2020
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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 May 2020

          Reduce an entire political position/tendency/community to one person, the mascot Reduce that person to just a few of that person's objectionable traits, past actions or unfortunate utterances (real or imagined) Don't bother arguing, just spam the meme of the mascot

          1 reply 8 retweets 35 likes
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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 May 2020

          It's an ancient routine going back to the first equivalent of schoolyards and schoolyard bullies But shit this is an absurdly extreme example, especially because the supposedly respectable sober British press is totally addicted to it

          2 replies 4 retweets 26 likes
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        4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 May 2020

          I wanna say "If Owen said the house was on fire then burning to death would be an act of feminist solidarity and firehoses an antisemitic conspiracy" But it's not even that It's that if he said it you would STAND IN THE BURNING BUILDING ARGUING ABOUT *HIM SAYING IT*

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        5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 May 2020

          Like you wouldn't actually defend standing in the fire, you wouldn't even bother You'd just start psychoanalyzing Owen in a snotty voice "Why you so afraid of staying indoors, Jones? Got issues with strong women? Mummy grounded you as a boy?"

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        6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 May 2020

          The Mascot and Meme strategy is so awful and so effective because it means we're not having a conversation at all anymore We're just punishing Owen for sticking his head up and talking at all, and warning anyone else if they become the new Owen they're next

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        1. Jack Rudd  🇹🇹  🏳️‍⚧️‏ @IMJackRudd 14 May 2020
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          Oooh, sounds interesting. Got a link?

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