Oh, so Sarah Jeong was only MAKING FUN of white people.
Wanting to cancel an entire race was just a joke and not racist … got it.
Holy cow, can you imagine the fit these same people would throw if someone from Fox News said something about canceling any one race of people and then tried to say it was a joke? They sure as heck wouldn’t be defending and protecting them in a bunch of drivel:
An Asian American woman’s tweets ignite a debate: Is it okay to make fun of white people online? https://t.co/5qU2XAksIA
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 3, 2018
From WaPo (sorry):
The old tweets bubbled up from the depths of the Internet, surfaced by an apparently anonymous user on Twitter.
In them, Sarah Jeong, a technology writer recently hired by the New York Times for a prestigious post on its editorial board, spoke sarcastically about white people.
“Oh man it’s kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men,” she wrote in one.
“White people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants,” she wrote in another.
“#CancelWhitePeople,” another said.
Without evidence that they had any bearing on Jeong’s extensive body of work, which includes a book she wrote about online harassment, these statements could have perhaps been unceremoniously dismissed as insignificant. But after conservative media seized on the story Thursday, they ignited a firestorm of debate.
Look how quickly they are to defend her horrible tweets.
Typical.
Let’s not confuse horrendous bigotry with “make fun” https://t.co/IwgJxg1PtN
— Sean Agnew (@seanagnew) August 3, 2018
But it was all in good fun, doncha know? She was just defending herself from EVIL WHITE PEOPLE.
The stupid is so thick it literally burns.
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/1025359310652669954
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/1025361034062782464
Duh.
"Make fun of." Sure, that's what she was doing. ? #Racist
— American “Learn To Code” Purrl (@scsloan01) August 3, 2018
And if you don’t see it that way then you’re a big ol’ racist.
You can make fun of anyone. However, it is bad to show animus towards a group of people based purely on their skin color, which she did. That would be what is referred to as 'racism'
— William (@LastWordWilliam) August 3, 2018
Read a book, WaPo.
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