Anyway of course it's problematic to list all this respectability politics shit about Christian Cooper - his Harvard degree, his reputation as a writer, editor and birdwatcher, his affable demeanor - as opposed to the one relevant fact which is that he did nothing threatening
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But if you don't see WHY people feel the need to shore up that simple fact with respectability politics then you're probably part of the reason why they feel the need to do it
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You know, the kind of person whose boyfriend just blurts accusations about his Black neighbors "trying to kill him"
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(I know he doesn't say they were Black in that post, I was following Spinster somewhat avidly at the time and this post is just the end of a long saga One that never actually revealed what actually happened between him and the neighbors but was quite lengthy nonetheless)
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Oh my God I didn't realize that rather than burying this story as the embarrassment it ought to be she's sticking to it and still salty over it Yeah that Philadelphia PD sure are a bunch of PC SJWs, letting angry Black people run rampant https://twitter.com/mkay_fain/status/1266189579176075264?s=20 …
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Holy shit she was a local? Do you happen to know what neighbourhood this was in?
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Her boyfriend said they lived in "the place Will Smith ran away from" so I assume "West Philadelphia" like the song, but no greater specifics than that (And I have no interest in being accused of trying to retroactively dox them so I don't really care)
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Replying to @ccommack @arthur_affect
Just imagining how white West Willy anarchists would have chewed up and spat out those chuds is giving me glee on a pretty shitty day.
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There are no details given at any point about the "misunderstanding" that led their neighbors to "threaten" them, and I'm pretty sure it's because on some level they're aware it would make them look like enormously entitled pricks
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And yeah the image of the whole neighborhood gathering to heckle and cheer as they watched them packing up their U-Haul is heartwarming I'm sure their internal certainty that everyone there was misogynist or reverse-racist or whatever has just driven them further round the bend
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Man if you're a white couple calling the Philadelphia cops on Black people who you claim are threatening you at your home and the cops do nothing then 1) your claim must be obviously, absurdly, facially false and/or 2) you may just be really repulsive people on a personal level
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