waiting on the "social media criticizing us is ruining the press" crowd to post something in solidarity with sarah jeong after she's been dealing with a coordinated harassment campaign attempting to get her fired
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they're all happy to spend weeks writing columns to defend bari weiss from the mean, mean twitter mob that pointed out she was racist a mob with 100x that volume and actual threats in the mix and they all either go silent or side with the mob
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making racist statements about asian-americans or palestinians, calling for people who have abortions and everyone who is employed by any clinic to be murdered, climate change denialism-- calling for a columnist to be fired over any of these is, apparently, beyond the (ahem) pale
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but somebody being targeted by a harassment mob empowered by their success in recently getting two arenanet employees and james gunn because she blew off steam by making fun of white people four years ago either isn't worth commenting on
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most of the ones who do deign to comment on it are comparing saying that white people are awful are morally equivalent to saying that people who get abortions, as well as everyone who works for a healthcare facility that performs abortions, should be killed
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if you weren't aware of it, white people are complicit in a system that has oppressed people of color for centuries
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white people materially benefit from a system that individually oppresses people of color by condoning cops murdering them with impunity and systems like the school to prison pipeline and the prison-industrial complex
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not only that but white people have spent hundreds of years shaping the geopolitical landscape to elevate predominantly white places over everyone else, creating reasons to go to war against them and strip mine their resources
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this is mostly repeating stuff that aamer rahmen says better and funnier in his standuphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw_mRaIHb-M …
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but the fact is that a person of color choosing to say that white people suck doesn't reinforce a structural system of prejudice and marginalization against white people. it doesn't mean the same thing as a white person saying something racist
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this is why it's absolutely fine for sarah jeong-- or any person of color-- to say anything they fucking want about white people
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because we live in a white supremacist society that already codes people of color as inferior, it isn't okay to, say, spend over two decades defending a widely discredited racist work of sociology that says that white people are smarter than Black people
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this is what andrew sullivan has done, with his constant defence of "the bell curve"; today he came out to call jeong a racist, pound the drum about the college campus pc police, and incoherently claim that the basic, axiomatic elements of actual sociology are "neo-Marxist"
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his use of "neo-Marxist" makes me think his editor wouldn't let him use "cultural Marxism" because it's a neo-nazi dogwhistle; same deal with him claiming that "cancel white people" is "eliminationist" being a way to whine about "white genocide" without saying the phrase
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i just want everyone to look at the reactions of the "college campuses are stifling free speech" + "the hoi polloi pointing out when we're being racist on twitter is a mob that is stifling free speech" crowd to this, an actual mob run by actual hate groups
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andrew sullivan and his ilk are trying to legitimize this mob, but it's being led by familiar figures from anybody who saw gamergate and the rise of the alt-right harassment mobs, and it's using the same tactics
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tw for actual racism / i was on one of the conversations that this mob has been screaming at jeong from and have seen a metric shitload of "love you long time" comments and shit about eating dogs, and i probably saw .01% of the stuff jeong has actually been sent
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bari weiss and the crowd of conservatives will cry about free speech and mobs every time they get even slightly roasted for something they deserve to be roasted about
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but if it's an *actual* harassment mob going for one of their colleagues, they don't give a shit
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because the colleague dealing with it isn't somebody who plays along with their stupid game of pretending moral equivalence between explicit bigotry against socially disenfranchised groups and "cancel white people"
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there are a dozen things you can point to in order to show that these people are not acting in anything resembling intellectual honesty or good faith but this one really stands out because it's so flagrant
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it's absolutely disgusting behavior and i have a hard time believing that anyone actually falls for it, as opposed to parroting it along because it's fucking expedient
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if you've spent the past several years of your life bemoaning "pc culture" and "safe spaces" but lose your shit over the phrase "cancel white people", you don't need to write a fucking column about it; you a sociology class or therapist who can teach you basic self-reflectionpic.twitter.com/BauOIBecCQ
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