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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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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