Thread by @jessesingal

Oh man I have so many thoughts about this piece. I just wish outlets would be more rigorous in trying to explain important-to-understand behaviors like violent threats. It's genuinely more complicated than wanting to "silence women of color."

https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1115528524516003840

2/ For one thing the dudes doing these threats obviously don't do violent threats to conservative women of any color. So in that sense it's clearly very much about partisanship. If you held everything constant would race and gender factor in? I bet. But it's more than IDs.

3/ Ah yes, as we all know male political figures have not been criticized for their tweets lately. Can't think of one example.

Again, I'm not saying the criticism is totally even! But if we wanna understand this stuff we can't over-essentialize it.

4/I guess some of this comes down to seeing identity everywhere and some of it comes down to journalists rightside norms -- seeing something like this not as worth exploring/explaining, but as fodder for reinforcing certain allegiances

jessesingal.substack.com/p/rightside-no…

That's a shame b/c

5/ TONS of progressive-minded people send death threats to subjects of outrage. Do you think it was conservatives death-threatting Sacco or the Cecil the Lion guy? Probably not! It's terrible behavior and it deserves good-faith 'splainin, not to be treated as a strict left-vs

6/ right or white-vs-PoC thing. But that's not really the trajectory of a lot of progressive outlets at the moment, which is a shame.