When you’re white and feeling riddled with guilt over it, who else would you turn to but the newspaper that just hired Sarah Jeong to join its editorial board?
We’re wondering if this call for advice from The New York Times Style section is actually some epic trolling because the letter is just so pitch-perfect in its virtue signaling:
I consider myself an ally. I research proper etiquette, read writers of color, vote in a way that will not harm P.O.C. (and other vulnerable people). I engage in conversations about privilege with other white people. I take courses that will further educate me. I donated to Black Lives Matter. Yet I fear that nothing is enough. Part of my fear comes from the fact that privilege is invisible to itself. What if I’m doing or saying insensitive things without realizing it?
"I donated to Black Lives Matters"
*Cries a single tear*https://t.co/I8YuO3Um1t— ConservativeBlackMan ???? (@NevilleD35) August 14, 2018
“I feel like there is no “me” outside of my white/upper middle class/cisgender identity. I feel like my literal existence hurts people, like I’m always taking up space that should belong to someone else.” https://t.co/KOXerDGVj4
— EdAsante (@EdAsante77) August 14, 2018
Sir, this is an Arby’s https://t.co/1pxAWDwpEV
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 14, 2018
https://twitter.com/ongle/status/1029475775525937152
https://twitter.com/AndySwan/status/1029473821332520961
SNAP OUT OF IT!
— J.G. Petruna (@jgpetruna) August 14, 2018
???please stay balled up in bed. The rest of us don't need you getting in the way.
— Joshua Alexander (@The_J_Alexander) August 14, 2018
This is the most embarrassing thing I’ve ever read, and the writer was right – it’s helpful to no one.
— Meredith (@FletchHerCox) August 14, 2018
https://twitter.com/tcgigliotti/status/1029502094473154560
Good Lord you're embarrassing, get help.
— Rhonda Koenig (@Rhondako) August 14, 2018
Holy mother of God!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/8fI4TyaWtG
— ConservativeBlackMan ???? (@NevilleD35) August 14, 2018
I can take 'em to some rural communities here in the heartland that should nip that in the bud.
— Geary (@indiucky) August 14, 2018
Best thing I've read all day.
— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D., M.S. (@Neoavatara) August 14, 2018
This is most likely a parody. #hopefully
— Refined Gentleman (@RefinedRecords) August 14, 2018
That’s a troll letter, right?
— The Scoo (@The_Scoo) August 14, 2018
This could be amazing satire but it’s just too over the top to be remotely realistic.
— Sabin Brabb (@SabinBrabb) August 14, 2018
Where's Sarah Jeong's comments?
— Marcus T. Cicero (@cedantarmatog1) August 14, 2018
Can there really be people out there who have had their minds messed up to this level by harmful identity politics? A responsible answer would be "start talking to normal people and stop talking to identity preachers".
— System11 (@System11b) August 14, 2018
https://twitter.com/sjfotos/status/1029498200846151680
https://twitter.com/TCoop6231/status/1029500648130142208
Uuuhhh start by growing a set?
— sucks2BU (@badpingputter) August 14, 2018
Go to Walmart, get yourself some new adult coloring books, then go home and wrap yourself in a compression blanket until your next primal scream group therapy meeting.
— Dianne Shelton (@LadyFr8) August 14, 2018
Try therapy and medication. Maybe that will help.
— LoveThoseKnicks (@lovethoseknicks) August 14, 2018
https://twitter.com/HughMungusBear/status/1029495454709366784
Working and paying bills is a quick cure.
— 'Merica ✫✫ (@WeWhoDieSaluteU) August 14, 2018
https://twitter.com/jamesspider4/status/1029499253780041729
Join Antifa.
— The Eye's Mind (@TheEyesMind2) August 14, 2018
Have children. You're life will become all about them and there won't be time for "me"
— Hazzard County Engineer (@Enginerd2004) August 14, 2018
https://twitter.com/PlimouthOutWest/status/1029496091178237952
Jesus H. Christ that was a lot.
— Roy Meredith (@ThoreauSquad) August 14, 2018
My god… if you spent half the energy you do groveling at the feet of people who never asked for that you might realize that just being a decent freaking human being is enough. Why do people feel the need to appease and beg forgiveness for sins that weren’t theirs?!
— Mike Jocher (@mjocher77) August 14, 2018
https://twitter.com/ApostateAmina/status/1029507381586157569
And yet, all that theatrical self-loathing is really a form of narcissism.
— ?? ?????? ????? (@la_chatte_verte) August 14, 2018
https://twitter.com/FatherKesinger/status/1029512600881700865
— kristin (@kost719) August 14, 2018
BTW, I wonder if this is @sarahjeong writing under a pen name…
— Larry Bell (@LBellWonders) August 14, 2018
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 2, 2018
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