Snowflakery of Trump Trolls

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Snowflakery of Trump Trolls

Pro-Trump, and So Sensitive!

(Cannot take credit for "snowflakery." That goes to Roy Edroso.)


Conservatives Cry ‘Shadow Ban’ Over Twitter Bug,
Demand Their Right to Troll
When caught abusing social media,
right-wingers work the refs

July 30, 2018

https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/0...over-twitter-bug-demand-their-right-to-troll/

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New York Times Capitulates to Racist Trolls Mad at Sarah Jeong for Defending Herself

August 2, 2018

The New York Times has released a statement in response to the wave of right-wing trolls that has sprung up after the paper announced its editorial board’s latest hire: celebrated technology writer Sarah Jeong.

Said trolls are arguing that these tweets are expressions of racism Jeong harbors towards white people. But in a statement published on Twitter, Jeong says they were meant to be satirical, a thin defense against the torrent of abuse she experienced and witnessed as an Asian-American woman writing online.

The Times released its own statement about Jeong, stating the paper has no plans to fire her and that it understands the abundantly obvious—which is that Jeong was tweeting these things to defend herself. (It also adds that these kind of tweets are not tolerated from its employees.)



In her statement, Jeong reveals the central fallacy with her trolls’ argument that she is attacking the mainstream white American audience:

“[My tweets] were not aimed at a general audience, because general audiences do not engage in harassment campaigns."


https://jezebel.com/new-york-times-capitulates-to-racist-trolls-mad-at-sara-1828062559

 

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More on snowflakery and the New York Times-

Yesterday, the New York Times announced that it had hired Sarah Jeong, who is by all accounts an extremely talented tech reporter, as a new member of its editorial board. Today, Jim Hoft, once accurately called the “dumbest man on the internet” by Media Matters, published a collection of Jeong’s tweets which he deemed “racist filth.”

The worst people in America quickly took this up as their cause. Conservative news sites, ranging from Fox News to the Daily Caller, screamed about Jeong’s “racist” tweets. Then, the Times and Jeong herself issued statements on the matter:


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NYTimes Communications
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@NYTimesPR
Our statement in response to criticism of the hiring of Sarah Jeong.

12:00 PM - Aug 2, 2018



The New York Times really fucked this one up. Instead of ignoring this ridiculous complaint and letting it die—which it would have, because who the fuck cares what The Gateway Pundit is doing—they have validated it. (At least they didn’t fire her, you might say, but even responding to this garbage sets a terrible precedent and legitimizes a completely illegitimate, bad faith campaign to discredit Jeong and the Times itself.)

Now, according to the Times, it is fair to say that being rude about white people serves “to feed the vitriol that we too often see on social media,” and that her tweets represent a “type of rhetoric” at all and not just... jokes, nothingnesses, completely mundane and honestly quite boring observations that have no wider importance or meaning. Do we think Sarah Jeong actually enjoys chasing down and bullying old white men for fun? Do we think she earnestly wants to “cancel” white people? No, because that doesn’t mean anything—“cancel” doesn’t mean “do genocide to.”


Or, maybe more likely, perhaps the Times leadership really does think there’s some merit to the idea that being flippant about white people is in any way comparable to actual racism.

https://splinternews.com/the-new-york-times-really-fucked-this-one-up-1828061129

 

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WHY DO THE COPS KEEP PROTECTING WHITE SUPREMACISTS?

Silent Sam is taken down

http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2018/09/silent-sam-unc-records-0914

Jordan Green
August 23, 2018

After Dylann Roof massacred nine black parishioners at Mother Emanuel church in Charleston, SC in June 2015 and pressure mounted for the removal of Confederate flags and monuments, Republican lawmakers in North Carolina rushed to enact a new law banning state agencies and local governments from taking down any “object of remembrance” on public property that “commemorates an event, a person, or military service that is part of North Carolina’s history.”


August 2017, cities from Baltimore to Lexington, Ky. quickly removed Confederate monuments, along with the University of Texas at Austin. But the administration at the University of North Carolina, meanwhile, was effectively bound by law.


September 8, 2018


Chapel Hill, North Carolina, dozens of police assaulted and arrested community members holding an anti-racist canned food drive and potluck on the campus of the University of North Carolina.


The community potluck was a response to the wave of right-wing backlash since a racist Jim Crow-era confederate statue on the campus was finally toppled three weeks ago. In response, white supremacists have gathered at the pedestal of the former “Silent Sam” statue with heavy police protection – while police have pepper-sprayed, beaten and arrested UNC students and community who came out to oppose them.

Police providing special protection to Nazis, the KKK, and other right-wing groups is far from a new trend. But the pattern feels especially stark this summer given the way police have responded to a series of rallies meant to continue the racist terror spree of Charlottesville. At a Portland alt-right rally in August, police attacked anti-fascist protesters with flash grenades, giving one protestor third-degree chemical burns and nearly killing another. At the main Unite the Right 2 rally in Washington, D.C., police provided an escort and private train to a group that included Charlottesville architect and “white civil rights activist” Jason Kessler.

I saw this firsthand at a rally hosted by Nazi front group Resist Marxism in Boston last month. Police were laughing and palling around with Nazis while they shoved and harassed anti-fascist protesters. Boston police provided a barricade of protection and private escort to the train station for the white supremacists once it became clear that the hundreds of us counterprotesting were not going away.


http://feministing.com/2018/09/12/why-do-the-cops-keep-protecting-white-supremacists/


9/20/2018


UNC students hold demonstration against police brutality

http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2018/09/police-brutality-demonstration-0920



9/21/2018

August 25, 2018 demonstration follows toppling of Silent Sam

Who was assaulted ?


https://triad-city-beat.com/climate-violence-students-set-stage-clashes-unc/


Kathleen Belew, an assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago, makes the case in her new book, Bring the War Home, a breathtaking history of the white-power movement from 1979 to 1995, that in fact Greensboro was the first violent outbreak “in an escalating campaign of terror against the American public” by “highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview of white supremacy, anticommunism and apocalypse.”


One other theme runs chillingly through the story of the white-power movement from 1979 to 2018: Belew describes how anticommunism served as an alibi for the racist violence of the United Racist Front in Greensboro, helping secure the acquittal of the Klan-Nazi defendants. Today, while chanting variants of, “You will not replace us,” many white power activists downplay overt symbols like swastikas or Klan hoods. Instead, they troll their antiracist opponents with violent anticommunist graphics celebrating the grisly practice of extrajudicial executions carried out by the former military dictatorship in Chile, which dropped political opponents out of helicopters.

“Free helicopter rides,” the signs mockingly invite. Or, even more casually: “Physical removal, so to speak.”

https://triad-city-beat.com/citizen-green-white-power-terror-from-greensboro/

 

[JackLuis]

Trump reelection campaign manager has white hot meltdown over Google and Facebook promoting stories he doesn’t like

Snowflakes melting in the light of day!

 

[phrodeau]

Trump reelection campaign manager has white hot meltdown over Google and Facebook promoting stories he doesn’t like

Snowflakes melting in the light of day!

I corrected your link above.

 

[KeithD]

At the main Unite the Right 2 rally in Washington, D.C., police provided an escort and private train to a group that included Charlottesville architect and “white civil rights activist” Jason Kessler.

It cheapens your point to continue to push disinformation. I've called you on this one before. They didn't provide a private train; they isolated the Jason Kessler group to a single car of an existing subway train on an existing travel route. That was to the benefit of everyone. A private train was requested and they turned the request down.