• New York Times writer Sarah Jeong won't be fired after making racist tweets
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Letting anti-white rhetoric pass because it's "punching up" is great and all until they're no longer the majority in America, a reality approaching faster than you might think, and already in many states including my own. Once white people aren't in positions of power, I wonder how the same people are going to defend this rhetoric.
They'll simply defend it with what they truly believe at heart: white people are actually inferior, and thus deserve it.
Though nobody in this thread have argued this, not even Sarah Jeong
https://reel.geel.tf/fhvsyib1rh90hmyla58h.png But geel she said they were dumbasses not that they're INFERIOR!
She's making fun of white people but she's not saying asian people are better
Jesus fucking christ Lambeth
Can you show me where she says she's better than white people because she's asian or whatever?
https://reel.geel.tf/ac059qns5j7czzulx6mm.png
I'm mostly trying to meet you halfway but hey, can you tell me where she says she's better than white people?
That's what racism is. Qualitative judgements are relative. If you say something's "bad", you're inherently comparing it to something else that's a baseline, even if you don't explicitly say it. To say one race is "bad" is to say that another race is, at the very least, "not bad" in relation to that race. Okay so we can say she's racist, good. Glad we agree on that. What does racism mean again? Oh, right. https://reel.geel.tf/ac059qns5j7czzulx6mm.png
I think race can be complicated, weird and vague. I was walking home with my uncle once and he told me he had won an award for being one of the top asian entrepreneurs in the country. But he was very surprised that he got it because he's iranian and doesn't really see himself as asian.
thread's over guys, it's not racist because she didn't say verbatim "i think that asian people are superior to white people"
I mean this sincerely he's from the continent of "Asia"
Well yeah but there's an argument to be made that the traditional notions of race are so broad that they're useless.
In which Lambeth desperately attempts to steer the conversation away from his shitposts about how blatant racism doesn't at all mean that someone believes one race is better or worse than another.
These discussions always get way less interesting for me when people think it's swell to attack me personally.
That's not one academia has even remotely gotten around to. Harvard discriminated against Asians because they were so apt at SAT's, after school activities, and found reasons to discriminate because of that. Academia doesn't remotely practice progressive ideology as much as they pay lip service to it.
Good to know that racism against your own race doesn't bother you (and thus justifies it) but being called out on supporting racism hurts your feelings.
Unless there's evidence that she hasn't changed since these tweets, NYT is completely justified not firing her for tweets made before she was even hired. If she was making these tweets now though I would definitely support her getting fired.
Yeah, ditto.
So what if she were talking about black people, would she be fired even though it happened before she was hired?
We should take each instance of things like this happening on a case by case basis imo.
Sure, but if racism and prejudice is running so rampant as a majority of America believes, I find it disappointing that someone can get away with saying shit like this.
Does the majority of Americans believe that racism against White people is running rampant?
While this is true, I feel it means she should have never been hired to begin with. Most people have to hide their racism from their would-be employers.
Like I said. It's OK to be racist against whities.
What does it matter, racism is racism.
yeah but from what i've been seeing with your replies. You think white people are experience the same amount of persecution and racism as minorities. Which is entirely false.
Because of the nature of taboos and the more vulnerable status of certain minorities, racist statements against blacks is a lot more likely to be genuine and malevolent than the same racist statements against whites, which because of its status of being less taboo is more plausible to just be expressing frustration. That's why it's not just a case of "if you switch it to blacks people would act different because double standards." That doesn't make it OK either way but it's why racist statements against whites are more "forgivable", your hatred has to be a lot stronger to make the same statements against black people considering how much worse that would make you look.
Still doesn't make the racism OK in any way
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