Remember Sarah Jeong? She’s the woman who was hired by the New York Times despite a long history of racist tweets. CUNY professor of history Angus Johnston took the same tack as New Yorker food correspondent Helen Rosner — if you’re sharing that picture compiling Jeong’s racist tweets rather than researching her Twitter timeline yourself, you’re just a sheep who’s been fed some alt-right red meat. The Verge argued that her hiring was “not a good-faith conversation” but rather “intimidation.”
Jeong will have white suburbanite homeowners know that she’s a small Asian woman who takes public transit everywhere — don’t tell her about not feeling safe. (But New York City Mayor Eric Adams just declared it a myth that the subway isn’t safe.)
here’s the thing about having to hear white suburbanite homeowners flap their hands about how homelessness and drug addiction is scary and how they don’t feel safe:
— sarah jeong (@sarahjeong) October 20, 2022
Jeong just resorted to an ableist microaggression there, which we’ll get to later.
1) I’m a small asian woman in america in the year 2022 who walks / takes public transit almost everywhere. wanna tell me more about how I don’t know what it’s like to not feel safe
— sarah jeong (@sarahjeong) October 20, 2022
2) if I, based on experience of being threatened by a group of people sharing a visible set of characteristics / background, rounded up that category of people into camps and criminalized their existence and to make them more vulnerable to illness, injury, and death …..
— sarah jeong (@sarahjeong) October 20, 2022
……………janet, I have some news about your husband, your uncle, and cousins
— sarah jeong (@sarahjeong) October 20, 2022
Yeah, Janet.
I am still not okay about the people who emailed me to say I should be raped, who called into my office with bomb threats, who told me they were going to throw my body into the swamp. I also wouldn’t advocate throwing them in camps or in prisons. Because I’m not a fucking Nazi
— sarah jeong (@sarahjeong) October 20, 2022
No, but you’re a racist.
when a mentally ill homeless person looms over me, calls me a chink, of course I’m fucking scared. Of course I want to feel safe. But I also know this person doesn’t have a house, may be hungry, cold, and unable to get clean because they are unhoused. What your husband’s excuse?
— sarah jeong (@sarahjeong) October 20, 2022
This tweet makes no sense. Are people being rounded up and put in homeless camps? If it's criminal to steal from Rite Aid or buy drugs on the sidewalk should homeless people be excused?https://t.co/Y9rIMGPCVQ
— John Sexton (@verumserum) October 25, 2022
We’re guessing Janet is white and she’d be surprised to see her white husband, uncle, and cousins rounded up and put into camps for making Jeong feel unsafe.
Ok, look, I am also a small Asian woman who bikes everywhere, with kids. I am also a homeowner who doesn’t want screaming people throwing trash at my kids when they walk home. Everyone deserves to be safe. Even racists. Even homeowners.
— Adrienne So (@adriennemso) October 20, 2022
Healthy cities are ones where the trash is picked up, people are taken care of, and everyone thrives. This us/them framing is popular but it is not helpful.
— Adrienne So (@adriennemso) October 20, 2022
And who runs those cities where the trash isn’t picked and up people aren’t taken care of?
“Flap their hands”? Wha?
— Mrs. (@maitresse78) October 21, 2022
“Flaps hands” ——wow…. ableist much?????? Super gross tweet.
— Cher Gonzalez, JD (@GonzGovConsult) October 21, 2022
Ernest criticism here: pls do not use "flap hands" like this. You have "wring hands," "clutch pearls" and other euphemisms to mean what you mean here. Do not take something that is used to specifically for a common, harmless *autistic behavior* in a pejorative way for just anyone
— Cade Joirie 🏳️🌈🦋♿️📚 (@leftistlangcat) October 20, 2022
That’s not how microaggressions work.
If it was a common slight against autistic people IE, “Lol, you hand flapper,” you would have a point, but it isn’t. Microaggressions require social context that doesn’t exist in this case.
— Autistic Max (@MaxieMoosie) October 20, 2022
People are actually fighting over what constitutes a “microaggression” in her replies. These are the people who follow her.
Sorry — it's their "lived experiences." I know that's silly, but the rules have been agreed upon.
— John Self (@john_self1) October 25, 2022
I moved out of NYC after 15 years because of these very issues.
Perhaps reconsider your premises.
— David Frank Writes (@David_N_Frank) October 25, 2022
More racist rants from a racist writer who can't possibly comprehend that suburban people of all colors who own homes are concerned about homelessness and drug addiction. Instead of belittling whitey-only concerns, why not propose some solutions that maybe aren't about race.
— Keith Trauner (@kt_valueguy) October 20, 2022
Why should white suburbanites feel safe while homeless people are objectively unsafe?
— jonjon (@jonjon20n) October 20, 2022
Because they earned it?
— Nick Lane (@KJ7QEB) October 21, 2022
Are all suburbanite homeowners white?
It’s another of those red vs. blue arguments we’re going to have to settle in the next civil war; the good blue people live in the cities and take public transit everywhere while the bad red people live in the suburbs and drive cars.
Related:
Journo and notorious racist Sarah Jeong says all your concern about inflation ‘is driven by rich people flipping their sh*t’ https://t.co/rzcJizAg8f
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) November 17, 2021
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