[llama66]

bootlegga bootlegga:

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

“Her journalism and the fact that she is a young Asian woman have made her a subject of frequent online harassment. For a period of time she responded to that harassment by imitating the rhetoric of her harassers,” it added....

Two wrongs don't make a right...at least that's what I was taught growing up.

But then we learned in math a negative times a negative equals a positive.

[Thanos]

llama66 llama66:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Either way, Twitter could close tomorrow and nothing of value would be lost.

I actually believe our lives would be richer for it.

Ditto with Facebook. And the elimination altogether of the comment section on YouTube. Yes, it is known.

[Freakinoldguy]

The next time someone gets fired for their idiotic tweets and the Times get all sanctimonious about it, this woman will be trotted out and shoved in their face because no matter what your political or social outlook is you can't have it both ways which is what the Times apparently wants.

Anybody remember this piece from the Times:

$1:

It was the kind of thing Roseanne Barr has been doing online for years. This time, however, the backlash was immediate and vigorous. Ms. Barr apologized for her “joke” that wasn’t really a joke and said she was leaving Twitter as if Twitter were responsible for her racist behavior. That apology was not enough. ICM Partners, her agents, stopped representing her. The comedian Wanda Sykes, who was a consulting producer on the reboot of “Roseanne,” announced that she was quitting the show. Within a matter of hours, ABC canceled the new “Roseanne” and the original show’s reruns were pulled from TV Land, CMT and the Paramount Network.

For once, a major network did the right thing. But before it did the right thing, it did the wrong thing. It is not new information that Roseanne Barr makes racist, Islamophobic and misogynistic statements and is happy to peddle all manner of dangerous conspiracy theories. ABC knew this when it greenlighted the “Roseanne” reboot. ABC knew this when it quickly renewed the reboot for a second season, buoyed, no doubt, by the show’s strong ratings

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/opin ... weets.html

If this supposed bastion of the 5th estate can applaud ABC for firing Barr but, vilify them for hiring her in the first place what does that say about their policies and excuses in this case?

So, it really doesn't matter what she was responding to because when you call for the elimination of a specific segment of society you've gone way over the line, joke or not and if your employer supports this type of behaviour they're no better than the person making the threats.

And before people say this is an opinion piece allow me to point out that the Newspaper payed her for this "opinon" and likely even reached out to her to get her to write it.

$1:

We don’t just wait for articles to arrive. Every day we have a meeting to discuss the news, to toss around ideas, to think about which writers might be good on which subjects. Whether we then reach out to a writer and ask for a piece, or take on something that was submitted to us, all articles are written on spec – no article is guaranteed publication. But once we have accepted a piece, we will do everything we can to make sure it runs on one of our platforms. Sometimes, that happens months after a piece is written, an occurrence that must be absolutely maddening to writers. We wait for what seems like a good peg, the moment when the greatest number of readers are likely to find a piece relevant and interesting.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/opin ... d-you.html

[Thanos]

Andrew Sullivan posted this today and it caused an explosion of outrage among the SJW's on Twitter. As such I'll assume he's 100% correct about all of it:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20 ... acism.html

$1:

The editors of the Verge, where Jeong still works, described any assertion of racism in Jeong’s tweets as “dishonest and outrageous,” a function of bad faith and an attack on journalism itself. Scroll through left-Twitter and you find utter incredulity that demonizing white people could in any way be offensive. That’s the extent to which loathing of and contempt for “white people” is now background noise on the left. What many don’t seem to understand is that their view of racism isn’t shared by the public at large, and that the defense of it by institutions like the New York Times will only serve to deepen the kind of resentment that gave us Trump. Last night, for instance, Fox News made the most of the Times’ excuses for race-baiting.

Yes, we all live on campus now. The neo-Marxist analysis of society, in which we are all mere appendages of various groups of oppressors and oppressed, and in which the oppressed definitionally cannot be at fault, is now the governing philosophy of almost all liberal media. That’s how the Washington Post can provide a platform for raw misandry, and the New York Times can hire and defend someone who expresses racial hatred. The great thing about being in the social justice movement is how liberating it can feel to give voice to incendiary, satisfying bigotry — and know that you’re still on the right side of history.

Jeong seems like a perfectly awful person, one of the many on the left that could very well be responsible in 2020 for getting Trump re-elected thanks to her own hatred that will merely drive more white people that are in the cross-hairs of the left for the crime of merely existing into the Trump camp. Unfortunately it looks like the NYT is digging in and doubling-down on hiring her, and not going to do the right thing by telling her to get lost the way The Atlantic did when they made the terrible decision to hire Kevin Williamson. It ought to be amusing to keep an eye on her for a while, just to see if she's learned anything or if she'll use the cover the NYT is now providing her to behave even worse than she did before this became public knowledge.

[martin14]

As usual, it's getting better.....

[BeaverFever]

bootlegga bootlegga:

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

“Her journalism and the fact that she is a young Asian woman have made her a subject of frequent online harassment. For a period of time she responded to that harassment by imitating the rhetoric of her harassers,” it added....

Two wrongs don't make a right...at least that's what I was taught growing up.

I’m not saying she shouldn’t be held to account but obviously her comments were sarcastic and that matters.

[Thanos]

She's really just an unfunny bigot. She's also a Harvard grad so her SJW-cred for the downtrodden and disenfranchised is kind of a crock. She's really just another limousine liberal, with the only significant difference between her and the other ones of that type is that she's not white.

Apparently she's also got hundreds of anti-white joke tweets, not just the handful that have been screen-shotted and posted thus far. If she were going on like this about gays it would be her main gimmick just like Sam Kinnison.

[CharlesAnthony]

The Question: How much do her handlers pay her to write bullshit?