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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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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