Early this year Gawker ran one of the best essays I’ve ever read about As-Am identity. This week Deadspin ran a headline that said “Gooks.”
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What the fuck happens in America to make us like that?
It’s not the word that hurt so much, it was the obscene dance of victory around the audience’s pain.
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“Thanks for reading.”
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Gawker ethos decontextualizes humor born in absurd hierarchically-flattened contexts, & deploys it for profit from a position of power.
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Journalism doesn’t have to be nice. But.
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The kids who spent every breath making sure you felt weird and ugly and foreign because it amused them — they never go away.
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The participation of two Korean-American men in this ugliness is not surprising. The chance to be “with it” is always dangled before us.
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Back to David BY Lee: “America tries constantly to ignore the weak and break the strong. Korea has no love for itself or for the others.”
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In the Lee essay he talks a bit about his friend who says to him, “I think white people are just better” and then has a mental break.
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“this is a crazy-making environment” — we call each other hysterical, we call each other crazy, we call each other gooks.
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our identity is too twisted-up, maybe too broken, for meaningful pride or meaningful solidarity.
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I thought a lot about how the click-centric, ad-driven model of journalism had broken down the marketplace of ideas.
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But when it comes down to it — as gross and worrisome as the click-centric model is — it’s rather irrelevant.
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There are a lot of click-centric publications out there, & a great many would never, ever publish something with “gooks” in the headline.
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There’s a smug sociopathy that’s set in at Gawker, and I suppose their profit model encourages it — but it’s not the cause.
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That mindset existed long ago. We knew it well from the playgrounds of our childhoods.
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I guess the only thing to be surprised about is that our bullies can make money off our misery, now.
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@sarahjeong people love making fun of other people for hurting on the internet. just having feelings means you are weak.Merci. Twitter en tiendra compte pour améliorer votre fil. SupprimerSupprimer
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@sarahjeong people seem to think it's not just ok but desirable as long as pointed at the right target to sadistically revel in others' painMerci. Twitter en tiendra compte pour améliorer votre fil. SupprimerSupprimer
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@sarahjeong It's a Street Boners editorial, more or less. The Gawker commentariat and their writers were generally of that mindset anywayMerci. Twitter en tiendra compte pour améliorer votre fil. SupprimerSupprimer
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@sarahjeong@yeloson Ahhhhhh...*snarls & sighs*Merci. Twitter en tiendra compte pour améliorer votre fil. SupprimerSupprimer
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@sarahjeong it's a good topic imo bc it's so common that people usually think it's normal and good. idk. the deadspin thing was badMerci. Twitter en tiendra compte pour améliorer votre fil. SupprimerSupprimer
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