OK, omg, all of this. I have a movie to go see, but talk to you all later!
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Weev doesn't talk to me much anymore, but we talk about the racism whenever he does. My door is open when he, or anyone, wants to talk, but we're talking about the stupidity of racism and the people in my life know that to be true.
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I've been a queer activist since 1992. But when I speak to communities, I used their language to do it. I talked about the Anonymous usage of "fag" and "faggot" here:https://www.wired.com/2011/11/anonymous-101/ …
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I only used it in the context of my work with anons. I used it occasionally when amongst gay friends in our community. That's not really your business, though.
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I retweeted
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I used a variation of offensive language to talk about questions of tone. I really wasn't comfortable using the word directly, so I didn't. I was trying to make a point, but something else would have made that point better. So, also not my best tweet.
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For people who are calling me a nazi apologist for my article about John Rabe: https://medium.com/quinn-norton/the-morality-of-john-rabe-f99072fabf5f … srsly, wut are u talking about
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I stand by my angry tweet referencing the 2014 NYtimes "no angel" article about Michael Brown being a terrible, racist call. That should have never run like that.
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One more thing, about me, and anons, and so on. One of the tweets coming up was a conversation I specifically talked about in an article about context collapse: https://medium.com/message/context-collapse-architecture-and-plows-d23a0d2f7697 … And context collapse is what happened here tonight.
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As I said so many times to the
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You were powerful today. You changed at least one person's life, and if I'm honest, my family's too. It feels good to be powerful. But this power doesn't go away. It doesn't evaporate when you use it without thinking, or at the wrong person.
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What I need is for you to see yourself as powerful, as people who can change the world. And I want you to think about how you're wield that power. Choose the targets of your power wisely. History is watching you.
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OMG seriously? NYT completely blew it. Quinn is one of the most informed, direct, honest, insightful writers of this generation. Those who reject her work are just looking superficially and rejecting real (and really incredible) writing.
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so the reason you used a slur is because you were code-switching to address an internet subculture that turned out to be incubating far-right extremists this excuse is not as exonerating as you might think
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It so profoundly is not.
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Oh I got it so when I call my friend "A crazy cunt" i really mean "YAAASSSS My Best Friend" because that's our "TERM". But If I called you a "Crazy Cunt" I'm insulting you even though I'm a female and can appropriate "cunt" however I want. YAY FREE SPEECH! History, ya watching?
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It's adorable that you think history might be paying the least little bit of attention to you whatsoever
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That word is toxic. It is not yours to use. Seriously, I am shaking with rage. I am shaking with the rage of a scared 13 y.o. boy who was called the f-word. You don't get to use it. Ever. It is not OK.
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Queer activists use the word fag to attack someone for being “hypersensitive”? Steady streams of “fag” hurled my way as a closeted teen nearly drove me to suicide. No LGBTQ activist I know of uses that word, and certainly not as a means to attack someone you perceive as weak.
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This man is actually trying to defend herhttps://twitter.com/kevinbankston/status/963602543040434182 …
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No, only asking that you look closer at what she has to say for herself before convicting her. Thanks for taking the time, thanks for caring about race and gender issues enough to be concerned and engaged, and thanks for your service, too.
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I appreciate the thanks, but that’s my daughter, who graduates Basic Training in two days. And I appreciate your defense of a friend, but there’s nothing I’ve seen in her that I find defensible. I do thank you for the courteous exchange. It’s rare on Twitter.
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It really is! Which is part of what I’m responding to and that made me sad about today. It’s an easy place to attack, much harder to have dialogue about admittedly difficult things. Anyway—congratulations to your daughter and thanks for sharing.
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Agreed. And if she’s really not the person she’s publicly portraying, I hope she realizes what she’s doing to all of the marginalized communities. There is nothing funny in targeting people. But thanks again for the discourse!
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