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Thread: I love Bari Weiss. I don't always agree with her, but I have always found Bari to be a brilliant, interesting, hilarious, and engaging person. I hate Twitter. It's a useful resource but is also home to roving bands of echo-chamber outrage. On both sides.
We live in a time where our dialogue and our politics and our news have been Twitter-ized. We have forgotten what it means to disagree with each other without annihilating each other. We have forgotten what it means to cut people slack, and to forgive their mistakes.
I have felt this many times on my own skin, have watched people get furious at me for a comment and then refused to listen to the apology or the explanation. Twitter's wrath is devastating. It is cruel. It is disproportionate.
Leave the Twitter mob. Think for yourself. Listen for yourself. Turn of your political bloodlust. Learn how to disagree as a civilized adult. Stop bullying people. Just stop it.
@bariweiss, I'm with you. Be strong, lady. This too shall pass.
And I say all this, by the way, as an immigrant.
Don't know what this is about. Checked Bari's timeline, still don't know. Outrage Twitter is a completely chosed echo chamber; normal, well-adjusted people don't even know this is going on. Block liberally and nothing of value is lost.
She said something racist and stupid though well intentioned. Instead of acknowledging how her initial tweet was "inartful" she choose to doubl-down and act like everyone else was the racist. Her entire shtick is anti-safe spaces but wants one for herself.
She called a native born Asian-American an Immigrant. That's racist. It happens. It's only a big deal because she refused to acknowledge error & instead doubled-down. You're not Asian-American so you HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE WHAT IT'S LIKE TO HAVE YOUR AMERICANNESS QUESITONED
So she either made an innocent mistake, or was crediting the Nagasus for being immigrants and giving America such a great daughter. Who cares about either thing? Real issue is she's a halfway decent opinion writer so people want to use PC gestapo shit to get her fired.
Yes, she made an innocent mistake. I agree. It happens. So why couldn't she just own up to it. That's why people are pissed. Plus the hypocrisy of her going on about safe-spaces then immediately crying victimhood. Dude, you have your picture in your avatar.
That's a picture of Patrick Mahomes II, the Chiefs quarterback. I wish I had that cash. And he's black, so based on that picture, I would be the one shaming you.
Woops, my bad. See how easy that is. Admitting mistake. Why couldn't Bari do that. I looked too quickly at the pic. I made a mistake. Sorry.
You seem like a super objective observer. She tweeted something ignorant. Instead of saying “you’re right my bad” she doubled down.
Bari can't control of you take her words out of context
okay buddy....you have 12 followers and no pictures so go troll somewhere else
Just because you interpreted a tweet one way doesn't mean that's the only interpretation of the tweet. You'll learn nuance in law school. It's kind of important
"Mirai Nagasu born in America!! My bad! Sorry about the mistake!..
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So easy...
Literally insane that they are absolutely incapable of grasping this.
She tweeted she was referring to her parents who were immigrants
Which was to cover her ass. She made an assumption, was wrong, and doubled down and lied instead of just saying “oops sorry”
How do you know what her assumption was? You read minds. Did she ever say the skater was an immigrant
Lol yes. She did.
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