Good. Lord.
We suppose we should’ve seen this coming, but it hurts our brains to imagine that this level of stupidity is even attainable:
Elliot Rodger’s half-white male privilege: why is it so hard to get his race right? http://t.co/SVkrDiCi97 via @Salon
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) May 29, 2014
OK, we’re generous … let’s see where she’s going with this:
Why is it so hard to recognize Rodger as of mixed racial descent? It certainly doesn’t negate the role white entitlement and privilege played in his “syndrome.” Rodger is at least partly a victim of the ideology of white supremacy, as well as its violent enforcer. He struggled with his status as half-Asian, writing “I always felt as if white girls thought less of me because I was half-Asian.”
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The Rodger coverage underscores that our traditional American black-white, victim-victimizer view of American race relations is failing us in a world where Asians are the fastest growing “minority” and Latinos the largest. Dismissing Rodger as white implies that Asians can’t be racist on their own, that it was only his white half that made him hate black people and Mexicans. Labeling him Asian, or making the preposterous suggestion that he committed an anti-white hate crime, ignores that he was both the prisoner of white entitlement and supremacy as well as its avatar.
Alllllllrighty then.
You're a loon. RT @joanwalsh Elliot Rodger’s half-white male privilege
— RBe (@RBPundit) May 29, 2014
Beyond parody https://t.co/gs2LozjTRL
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) May 29, 2014
@joanwalsh @Salon I can't believe you get paid actual money for what you write…
— brent mohrman (@motrbotr) May 29, 2014
@joanwalsh @Salon Do you even understand everything you wrote? I am guessing not. So many words to say so little.
— Jeremie Jordan (@StarDogCh4mpion) May 29, 2014
@joanwalsh @Salon what on earth are you talking about?
— טום (@redtoriesRUs) May 29, 2014
Dear @joanwalsh , You really are a special kind of stupid.
— Sweet_Me_Lissa (@Mel_lific) May 29, 2014
@joanwalsh @Salon I want to say this in the nicest way possible…you're out of your mind.
— J. Shaka (@jjshaka) May 29, 2014
Is @joanwalsh a parody account?
— Alexander Khanukov (@akhanukov) May 29, 2014
Alas, she’s all too real.
@joanwalsh @Salon Yeah, I called it…https://t.co/zwdwTPLYrq
— PrivilegedGreg (@murgatr0id) May 29, 2014
Yeah, he pretty much did:
@KurtSchlichter I'm guessing racism is why @joanwalsh's alarm clock went off this morning.
— PrivilegedGreg (@murgatr0id) May 29, 2014
Being Joan Walsh must be just exhausting.
Imagine living your life like this. Gotta be miserable. https://t.co/UYYXpTcPBV
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) May 29, 2014
Can you even do anything else besides race-bait? @joanwalsh @Salon
— Dr. Kankokage (@kankokage) May 29, 2014
https://twitter.com/Bossy_McBoss/status/472040966237741057
@joanwalsh @Salon Gigantic eye roll & geez…is this what we're reduced to?
— SHEP (@sandstone2) May 29, 2014
Here’s a question for Walsh:
You know who else is half-white? RT @RBPundit: You're a loon. RT @joanwalsh Elliot Rodger’s half-white male privilege
— Eat at Arby's (@ThatElJefe) May 29, 2014
Let’s give her a minute to think about it.
Ready, Joan?
@joanwalsh I hear Obama is half white.
— brent mohrman (@motrbotr) May 29, 2014
Ding, ding, ding!
Yeppers. Just like Obama. MT @joanwalsh Elliot Rodger’s half-white male privilege.
— John Nolte (@NolteNC) May 29, 2014
Hey just like Obama! RT @joanwalsh: Elliot Rodger’s half-white male privilege.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) May 29, 2014
https://twitter.com/Calle_Elefante/status/472037202948411393
Hey @joanwalsh! What about Obama's "half-white male privilege"?! @charlescwcooke @Salon
— Grand Old Partisan (@Michael_Zak) May 29, 2014
Sorry, Joan. We can’t hear you over the sound of all those crickets chirping.
.@joanwalsh Is basically saying that Elliot Rodger has more in common with Barack Obama than Trayvon Martin does.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) May 29, 2014
Hey, and on that note …
@redsteeze @joanwalsh So what you're saying is, if Obama had a son, he'd look like Elliot Rodger?
— God's Comic Relief (@Crapplefratz) May 29, 2014
Ouch.
@joanwalsh @Salon good thing he wasn't 100% white. Can you imagine how much worse it would've been?
— ג'יי זי (@JayRooTheDee) May 29, 2014
Heaven forbid!
@sbprice
LIBERAL LOGIC
Rodger: half-white=white.
Obama; half-white=black. @joanwalsh— Razor (@hale_razor) May 29, 2014
[email protected] Yes, @joanwalsh. Tell us more about this half-white privilege.
— RBe (@RBPundit) May 29, 2014
I know a guy that has like 8/10 white male privilege, @JoanWalsh but I think he is using cultural appropriation.
— Jeff (@SenseOffense) May 29, 2014
Snort!
https://twitter.com/RileySecrist/status/472037600140615680
Seriously. It’s getting really hard for us to keep track of this stuff.
willing to ghost-write @joanwalsh's next column for her & am betting no one will be able to tell the difference
— Nino (@baldingschemer) May 29, 2014
Go for it! At least it’d be entertaining.
@baldingschemer @joanwalsh I’d read it. There’s the difference.
— James M. McGill (@MetricButtload) May 29, 2014
We’d read it, too. We’re betting that Fake Joan Walsh is much more fun than the real thing.
@joanwalsh @Salon If you didn't exist, conservatives would have to make you.
— Ben (@BenK84) May 29, 2014
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