Maybe the real crime was that her tweets weren’t funny enough
she spoke too plainly, was too brazen - unacceptable for minorities, particularly unacceptable for women, god help you if you’re both and you aren’t operating with surgical nuance and lvl 3 encoding
-
Show this thread
-
No I don’t think that’s it. That’s a thing, but not the main thing here. Reflecting on my own tweets from years ago - the problem is that she was tweeting to a smaller audience which had a common understanding of the context she operated in. Eg my old tweets are full of Singlish
3 replies 1 retweet 7 likesShow this thread -
I’m guessing she wouldn’t be so dumb as to tweet those things today in the present context - but contexts CHANGE, man. It wasn’t that long ago that “that’s so gay” was an acceptable slight, that homosexuality was a punchline. This was everywhere in pop culture. Also: “r*tarded”
1 reply 1 retweet 4 likesShow this thread -
To be clear I don’t think I’m trying to defend her or support her or say she should be forgiven or not-forgiven or anything of that sort. I don’t know shit about that. This stuff is moral fashion, it’ll be fashionable one week and out of date the next
2 replies 1 retweet 7 likesShow this thread -
I have a feeling when she tweeted “I get joy out of being cruel to old white men” she was referring to a narrow subset of old white men and did not at the time expect that it would eventually be seen to mean all old white men everywhere. (Not defending here; trying to understand)
2 replies 0 retweets 7 likesShow this thread -
Visakan Veerasamy Retweeted Marc Whipple - Legal Inspiration!
I think it’s plausible and maybe about 70% likely that she was taking calculated risks with those tweets. ones’s calculus is always imperfect because you can’t foresee the future. Ultimately I think she’ll be okhttps://twitter.com/legalinspire/status/1025253002855297024?s=21 …
Visakan Veerasamy added,
2 replies 1 retweet 3 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @visakanv
Her life will be considerably more successful, impactful, and relevant than mine. It's probably just sour grapes, honestly.
2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @legalinspire @visakanv
village epicurean here your life is unambiguously richer and sweeter this made all the truer by the fact that she is choosing this for herself she could have Been Good
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @eigenrobot @visakanv
I know you're trying to be nice but please don't say things like that about my life. Frankly, it's a mess.
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @legalinspire @visakanv
oh same extremely same but she has to be the person who wakes up and idk this is her schtick now, its what shes elected to care about and become idk seems bleak
2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
Anyway, apologies if I've caused offense. I really do think even fruitless struggle for something worth having beats . . . I don't know, that kind of soul rot, that public derangement. But I also don't mean to overstep, and for that I am sorry.
-
-
Replying to @eigenrobot @visakanv
You caused no offense whatsoever, thank you for your concern.
0 replies 0 retweets 2 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.