Thread by @XiranJayZhao

You want to know the difference between criticism and personal attacks? These are not criticisms. These are personal attacks.

Some prominent members of Chinese twitter have boosted these tweets. I've very disappointed.

A grown adult with a big following made this drawing in reference to me? (FYI, "green tea" is slang for Bitch on the Chinese Internet). Excuse me, are we in elementary school?

What baffles me most is that none of these people bothered to actually talk to me about what I specifically did or said that was so wrong before launching into these attacks, besides the one time I made a tweet about penguin in Chinese literally translating to business goose -

- I only later realized the joke translation only works in modern Mandarin, not Cantonese, and I've apologized multiple times for it. And yet they're still hung up on it because...?

https://twitter.com/XiranJayZhao/status/1316181663009968130?s=20

https://twitter.com/XiranJayZhao/status/1318301783865765888?s=20

I've never insulted or belittled any of these people. I could drag their names into the light, but I don't, bc I know the dangers of doing so with a following my size. The worst I do is block them, bc I don't want to ever interact with people who think this is acceptable behavior

I hope they know their peers are watching, and have talked to me in private about how disappointed they are too.

Btw mutuals, DM me if you want to know exactly who was involved. They rushed to delete evidence of their involvement, but I have receipts on hand. I don't want you to go retaliate, but you deserve to know who these people are.