The tweets were deleted, but this needs to be seen and understood. People still say this is a made-up issue. How can accumulated actions like this *not* have an effect on our intellectual and artistic culture?
Also, why is it just fine to tweet out internal HR matters now?
This is how it started. Absolute madness.
A random anonymous Twitter account, which calls itself “YA Whispers,” informs Jennifer that one of her agents simply *used* a social media platform and therefore should be terminated—and Jennifer actually goes and fires her then publicly brags about it!
But then people will tell me that if Rupert Murdoch or Josh Hawley mentions "cancel culture" then you shouldn't talk about it. You should just pretend this isn't happening.
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I reread the DMs I’d exchanged with this novelist to make sure I wasn’t misremembering. But no, the thread starts with him sending me a request to sign an open letter and telling me I’m “doing the Lord’s work out there friend. Thanks for taking all the hits.” And continues —>
With him bringing up a very prominent black public intellectual in a pretty mocking way. It ends with me telling him some months later that he’d presumed too much familiarity between us and that I took issue with something else he said. In no way did I “threaten violence” —>
I don’t screen cap and post private messages, but I will do so if @DanielTorday wants to share the entire conversation. It’s unacceptable for people to exaggerate and lie at your expense when they sense a clout-building opportunity to join a digital pile-on.
I have been reading and writing about race for many years at this point, and I have never quite seen an argument like this before:
This idea makes no sense: “When we say, in general, that the ancient Egyptians were Black and, more specifically, that Cleopatra was Black,” Dr. Haley wrote, “we claim them as part of a culture and history that has known oppression and triumph, exploitation and survival.”
By this logic, Slavic people are black; most Indians and Chinese are black; medieval European peasants are black; Jews are black...
I absolutely believe we need greater mental health and housing services and stronger social safety nets as many wealthy societies have, but he left the mental health facility he was given room and board in instead of prison after 13 days.
It is beyond misleading not to clearly state that.
Two almost identical shootings. Right next to each other on the NYT today. The latter was even fatal, but there was no racial angle to apply, both the victim and the trigger-happy elderly shooter were white. Hence the fatality gets lower billing, much smaller headline, no photo.
News organisations need to ask themselves why they are making the framing decisions they are making and whether this actually reinforces racial division.
also, if you look at other versions of the headline, in only one case is the race of the victim added. in the other it is elided.
The word “Blacks” is trending on Twitter right now. It’s nothing but random videos of assaults conditioning viewers to draw negative conclusions about an entire racial group based on the worst representations. This is reprehensible and Twitter is devolving into something dark.
It’s trending where I am. In any event I’m seeing these truly sickening videos every day.