From the article: >There was a hashtag, I don’t remember if it was trending or just in my timeline, called #whitegirlsaremagic. I clicked on it, and found it w

From the article: >There was a hashtag, I don’t remember if it was trending or just in my timeline, called #whitegirlsaremagic. I clicked on it, and found it was racist and sexist dross. It was being promulgated in opposition to another hashtag, #blackgirlsaremagic. I clicked on that, and found a few model shots and borderline soft-core porn of black women. Armed with this impression, I set off to tweet in righteous anger about how much I disliked women being reduced to sex objects regardless of race. I was not just wrong in this moment, I was incoherently wrong. I had made my little mental model of what #blackgirlsaremagic was, and I had no clue that I had no clue what I was talking about. My 60-second impression of #whitegirlsaremagic was dead-on, but #blackgirlsaremagic didn’t fit in the last few tweets my browser had loaded. Her mistake was that she didn't understand a hashtag before she railed against it. It turns out that she railed against someone misusing the hashtag, but turned her anger to everyone using the hashtag. Thanks to this mistake, and the internet's idiotic idea that you can't be friends with someone without subscribing to all their beliefs, she was fired. No amount of apologizing for a mistake made in good faith was enough. Or, if you're a pessimist, her mistake was bothering to try to help people.