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The 4chan campaign against Wu was based around claiming she doesn't build her projects herself, driven by racism and sexism. I guess Wu couldn't even be bothere

The 4chan campaign against Wu was based around claiming she doesn't build her projects herself, driven by racism and sexism. I guess Wu couldn't even be bothered by people being racist and sexist towards here, but claiming she isn't authentic and doesn't have tech-skills awakes her tiger. She's a hacker, her tech-cred is everything. The campaign against Jeong is some bs about old tweets where she mimicked the racism she gets back, recast as racism against white people. Wu and all her followers would happily stand with Jeong against this bs (the same racist and sexist garbage Wu has to fight) - if she wouldn't have sided with the attackers when the same thing happened to Wu.

_iyig 8y ago
>The campaign against Jeong is some bs about old tweets where she mimicked the racism she gets back, recast as racism against white people. Having read all of Sarah Jeong’s tweets as they pertain to this controversy, I find it hard to believe that many were intended as satire. She has a clear pattern of unprompted tweets that make sweeping negative generalizations about white people, particularly old white men. I’m white, and I don’t like being singled out and put down on the basis of my skin color. It is alienating, it is dehumanizing, and it provokes an immediate instinctual (and generally unproductive) defensive emotional reaction. I don’t buy the excuse of, “they started it.” Sarah’s obviously faced tons of online harassment, but since when have two wrongs ever made a right? The Golden Rule doesn’t say, “Treat others as you would like to be treated, except white people.” I would expect better from someone in Sarah’s position. Having said that, a few racially-bigoted tweets don’t justify a 4chan harassment campaign. I also understand how it becomes difficult to discuss such an issue when an online hate mob is so clearly invested in one side of it.
- _pmf_ 8y ago
  > I don’t buy the excuse of, “they started it.” Spot on. Once you start excusing things with "they started it", you're no longer on a slippery slope, you're in free fall (and her tweets make is seem like she's enjoying the ride).
BurningCycles 8y ago
>The campaign against Jeong is some bs about old tweets where she mimicked the racism she gets back, recast as racism against white people. This I saw just recently, my opinon here differ from yours though, had these been direct responses to racist comments then I would have found the explanation plausible, but they're not, and coupled with the sheer volume of them I can't see them as anything but her racist opinions. As for 4chan 'campaigns', does this site has any sway whatsoever ? Back when I went there ages ago it seemed like anonymous people was just trying to be edgy and do 'shitposting'. I thought reddit was 'the place' these days ? I just learned that VICE had her patron taken down and her Youtube channel demonetized due to her doxxing someone at VICE as a direct result of this article (which is not an excuse for doxxing, but something that would not have happened had not VICE ignored their agreement).

_iyig 8y ago

>The campaign against Jeong is some bs about old tweets where she mimicked the racism she gets back, recast as racism against white people. Having read all of Sarah Jeong’s tweets as they pertain to this controversy, I find it hard to believe that many were intended as satire. She has a clear pattern of unprompted tweets that make sweeping negative generalizations about white people, particularly old white men. I’m white, and I don’t like being singled out and put down on the basis of my skin color. It is alienating, it is dehumanizing, and it provokes an immediate instinctual (and generally unproductive) defensive emotional reaction. I don’t buy the excuse of, “they started it.” Sarah’s obviously faced tons of online harassment, but since when have two wrongs ever made a right? The Golden Rule doesn’t say, “Treat others as you would like to be treated, except white people.” I would expect better from someone in Sarah’s position. Having said that, a few racially-bigoted tweets don’t justify a 4chan harassment campaign. I also understand how it becomes difficult to discuss such an issue when an online hate mob is so clearly invested in one side of it.

_pmf_ 8y ago
> I don’t buy the excuse of, “they started it.” Spot on. Once you start excusing things with "they started it", you're no longer on a slippery slope, you're in free fall (and her tweets make is seem like she's enjoying the ride).

BurningCycles 8y ago

>The campaign against Jeong is some bs about old tweets where she mimicked the racism she gets back, recast as racism against white people. This I saw just recently, my opinon here differ from yours though, had these been direct responses to racist comments then I would have found the explanation plausible, but they're not, and coupled with the sheer volume of them I can't see them as anything but her racist opinions. As for 4chan 'campaigns', does this site has any sway whatsoever ? Back when I went there ages ago it seemed like anonymous people was just trying to be edgy and do 'shitposting'. I thought reddit was 'the place' these days ? I just learned that VICE had her patron taken down and her Youtube channel demonetized due to her doxxing someone at VICE as a direct result of this article (which is not an excuse for doxxing, but something that would not have happened had not VICE ignored their agreement).