Hugo Schwyzer is back again already? Well that didn't last long.
— Anarchist Whore (@AnarchaSxworker) August 13, 2013
Nope, it sure didn’t.
Last week, erstwhile college professor Hugo Schwyzer spilled his guts on Twitter, revealing an extensive history of using “sex and charm and whiteness” to manipulate his way into the worlds of academia and journalism. Needless to say, it didn’t go over well.
But just days after renewing his “pledge to leave social media,” the self-proclaimed “notorious bad-boy feminist” re-entered the Twitter ring once again, ostensibly to defend the media outlets who have published his work:
https://twitter.com/hugoschwyzer/status/367124645494800384
https://twitter.com/hugoschwyzer/status/367125004804030464
https://twitter.com/hugoschwyzer/status/367125282714431488
https://twitter.com/hugoschwyzer/status/367125691956867072
https://twitter.com/hugoschwyzer/status/367126697092452352
He certainly wasn’t shy about his state of mind:
https://twitter.com/hugoschwyzer/status/367127105823195138
He continued:
https://twitter.com/hugoschwyzer/status/367127717344325632
And while you’re at it, stop punishing progressives of pallor, too. Apparently, Schwyzer doesn’t approve of the way some feminists used his manic meltdown as a launchpad to highlight the hypocrisy of white liberal women.
https://twitter.com/hugoschwyzer/status/367128558507790336
Really? As a serial abuser himself, he’s not really in any position to pass judgment here.
https://twitter.com/hugoschwyzer/status/367129356927123457
https://twitter.com/hugoschwyzer/status/367129843227308033
If he insists that it’s “in his nature” to be dishonest and manipulative, can he truly feel sorry for what he’s done?
https://twitter.com/hugoschwyzer/status/367130219733192706
And his point is this:
https://twitter.com/hugoschwyzer/status/367130643018153984
https://twitter.com/hugoschwyzer/status/367131101413650432
https://twitter.com/hugoschwyzer/status/367131221295247360
https://twitter.com/hugoschwyzer/status/367131718039248896
https://twitter.com/hugoschwyzer/status/367132020784115713
https://twitter.com/hugoschwyzer/status/367132511580585985
Interesting that for a guy who eschews victimhood, he justifies all the disgusting, horrible things he has done by claiming he’s powerless to combat his natural tendencies. That may fly with The Daily Beast, who just wants to hear him out and make sure he’s OK, and with Feministe’s Jill Filipovic, who hopes we can move on from all of this and use it as a teachable moment for feminism:
https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/367337044579586049
But to just about everyone else, it’s pure, unadulterated B.S.:
Arent you supposed to be gone? Have some fucking sense. RT @hugoschwyzer: Good editors got played. That has nothing to do with whiteness.
— ?Nezua? (@nezua) August 13, 2013
@hugoschwyzer dude, stop. Just stop.
— Julie Karasik (@jkthinkystuff) August 13, 2013
@hugoschwyzer And it seems like using the internet & media as the staging ground for your current crisis isn't helping you, either.
— Philosophia Petrillo (@smoricebrubaker) August 13, 2013
See, y'all. @hugoschwyzer has no intention to make amends and to redeem himself. Self-centered racist jerk as expected.
— I Am Not Your Mule (@newblackwoman) August 13, 2013
Mental illness does not excuse being an abusive shitstain.Using it as an excuse slanders & endangers all mentally ill people. #hugoschwyzer
— Kinsey Hope (@genderbitch) August 13, 2013
So stop acting like Hugo Schwyzer's diagnoses somehow absolve him of responsibility for being an abusive fucking asshole.
— C. Disoriented (@CDisoriented) August 13, 2013
@hugoschwyzer speak for your fuckin' self, asshole. mental illness doesn't make you abusive, racist or misogynist. that's on YOU.
— tuesday terabite (@sexbicycle) August 13, 2013
https://twitter.com/LaPajamas/status/367318024115982336
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