White Women Need Not Apply
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White Women Need Not Apply
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#2I thought everyone was supposed to read Nathanial Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter” in high school.
Maybe it should return to being required reading.
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#3I don't mean this as a joke, but I'm actually rather hesitant to express any thoughts on this after reading it. I'll just leave it at that.
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#4I feel like I'm so burnt out from reading about conflict. I can't even comment on who is right or wrong...it feels like such an overinflated digital age argument.
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#5"I am really tired of white women's tears." This is a plainly racist comment.
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#6I find stories about cancel culture both interesting and vexing.
I disagree with so many of the premises behind such alleged behavior that I want to write off the entire topic and its participants.
And I'm vexed and dismayed by the issue because, by it's very nature, I hold no hope of resolving it by polite but critical discussion.
But there's a small part of me that suspects its a low-probability risk I need to be aware of.
I find it eerily reminiscent of trying to live near someone with poorly managed mental illness.
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#7Sojwal is certainly a disgraceful racist, but in our neo-racist culture, it's taboo to say so.
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#8This is a big reason for Trump’s appeal - being able to rally behind someone who can so effectively withstand constant derision from all directions. Moreover, the apologists on this site and elsewhere will continue to excuse this behavior until they are backed into a corner and enclosed into a tomb of their own making.
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#9I feel like I'm so burnt out from reading about conflict. I can't even comment on who is right or wrong...it feels like such an overinflated digital age argument.
>it feels like such an overinflated digital age argument.
It is and if it just stayed on twitter it would be a nothing burger ... but somebody's real life career, good name, and business was destroyed. It wasn't the first time this happened in the past 5 years (but especially in the past year)
From the article: "Roost’s podcast network dropped her show; her producer publicly denounced her character (“We stand against racism”)"
Isn't it ... terrible that her producer performed this public shaming ritual where they denounced their former coworker and friend and labeled them a racist? Imagine seeing your friends, family and coworkers publicly denounce you because either they themselves are afraid to stand up to the mob, or maybe because they have something to gain. There have been people who were ostracized because they wouldn't sufficiently (and publicly) denounced their family or if they attempted to defend their children (!!).
In a few years, these kinds of shenanigans are going to be characterized as a moral panic, in the same vein (though orders of magnitude more broad) as the "Satanic ritual abuse" in the 80s, and heck, even the "Salem witch trials".
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#10> “Not here to play” was an understatement: 48 hours and more than 7,000 retweets later, Roost’s career was toast. In hindsight, this was probably inevitable. Nobody gets canceled quite so enthusiastically as a middle-aged white woman accused of racism
Here's a Perry Bible Fellowship comic that first was funny, but now I realize is prescient[1]. We're beginning to see something akin to Newton's Third law of social justice.