REALLY!? Buzzfeed 'culture' editor wants *your stories (*please see special request for 'white Americans')

Editor for BuzzFeed's @reader, the website's home for cultural criticism: https://t.co/yrSZeYk24a

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) January 30, 2017

@Reader is Buzzfeed’s “home for cultural criticism, personal essays, fiction, and poetry.” The site’s editor had a request for readers:

if you have a story to tell that helps makes sense of the world right now, please get in touch (my email’s in bio) https://t.co/IjfNJfIqZA

— Rachel Sanders (@rachelysanders) January 30, 2017

Oh, and one more thing:

and NB this is deliberately vague but basically, if you’re a white american citizen, think extra hard before you hit send

— Rachel Sanders (@rachelysanders) January 30, 2017

Seriously?

https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/826108174763696129

Straight out of central casting. https://t.co/5YIDwkb1JY

— Jimmy (@JimmyPrinceton) January 30, 2017

.@SethAMandel She's totally woke yohttps://t.co/KjOUB8tB95

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) January 30, 2017

https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/826113164592947202

You should have taken your own advice before tweeting this. https://t.co/4KLcwDYS87

— NeoN: Automataster (@neontaster) January 30, 2017

I want to hear your stories of bigotry. And NB, whites need not apply. I'm helping!! https://t.co/WvkOdPZNqg

— Violated Norm (@BillySullivan7) January 30, 2017

Send me stories about how you've been victimized by racism and xenophobia. Not you honkey. https://t.co/WvkOdPZNqg

— Violated Norm (@BillySullivan7) January 30, 2017

She tried to explain further:

Oy, did you clear that with your compliance attorney? bc you just opened your company to lawsuits pic.twitter.com/bc881aZHFp

— (((Aaron “Worthing” Walker))) (@AaronWorthing) January 30, 2017

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by asking people to consider what they say before they send it?

— Rachel Sanders (@rachelysanders) January 30, 2017

an addendum for anyone confused by this: i mean it purely & only literally, as in, think about what you have to say before you say it

— Rachel Sanders (@rachelysanders) January 30, 2017

Intriguing!

so only "white people" need think about what stories they share? Why only white people? Expound please.

— TheRightWingM ?? (@TheRightWingM) January 30, 2017

.@rachelysanders Yet, you included the "white people" caveat. pic.twitter.com/ojoIQ7hO3x

— PeytonsHead (Retired) (@BigHeadBS) January 30, 2017

I mean what I said I was being deliberately vague about only to be understood purely and literally. https://t.co/vME1P29yZZ

— The Meturgeman (@DraftRyan2016) January 30, 2017

https://twitter.com/ninjamoose101/status/826142900140507137

Not confused at all. I know exactly what you mean. And it's why Trump won. https://t.co/K9MQq0ZjSo

— Gracie, Chief Fun Officer ? (@nomorenightowl) January 30, 2017