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| Yes, Anti-White Racism Exists |
| 2018-08-03 |
| [National Review] Earlier today, the New York Times announced that it had hired Sarah Jeong to join its editorial board, and ‐ like clockwork ‐ controversial old tweets promptly surfaced. In them, Jeong expressed some rather interesting views of "[dumba** f***ing] white people," musing about how much joy she gets "out of being cruel to old white men" and how "white men are [bullsh**]." For good measure she also compared white people to "groveling goblins" and questioned why they’re "genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun." In a statement, Jeong expressed her regret and explained that she was engaging in "counter-trolling" designed to mimic the language of racists who harassed her online. The Times is standing by its hire. Good. It’s time to end termination-by-Twitter and debate bad ideas head-on. (As for whether the Times and other elite outlets will display the same fortitude when a conservative is the target of online outrage, I’ll believe it when I see it.) But it’s one thing to argue that Jeong should be given a chance to prove herself at the Times, and another entirely to justify the content of the tweets themselves. Yet that’s what part of left-wing Twitter did. The argument isn’t just that the tweets were satire. Rather, numerous liberals took on the very notion that anti-white racism exists, or matters at all. These tweets are representative of the idea: |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 dey been hatin on crackers for years, just took a little Bama to git em goin |
| Posted by: 746 2018-08-03 10:58 |
| #2 Judging people by the color of their skin is racism pure and simple. Adding 'power' to the formation is simply a dodge to allow folks to hate whites without guilt. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-08-03 10:07 |
| #1 Well, its been rather obvious to the targets for a couple decades now regards of the ruling class denials. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-08-03 07:02 |