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As far as I can tell there wasn't any. Evidence of white supremacy I mean. The "instigating event" apparently opened the floodgates of people who felt marginal
by Illniyar 7y ago
As far as I can tell there wasn't any. Evidence of white supremacy I mean.
The "instigating event" apparently opened the floodgates of people who felt marginalized and ostracized by the react community. I couldn't really figure out who those people are, and what events/situations they were referring to.
I think it was mostly about women and misogyny after the initial blowout. Though I can't really pinpoint anything.
This is actually quite frustrating as someone looking from the outside - no one is really saying what it's about but everyone is acting as if it's a very big deal.
- barrkel 7y agoPerformative outrage is a social currency. There may be something there, but outrage can easily become an end in itself. (I have no dog in this hunt, haven't looked at it at all, it's just a social dynamic that I've seen playing out several times, especially in Twitter pile-ons based on limited or misleading quotes.)
- teddyh 7y agoParaphrasing George Orwell, the object of outrage is outrage. The object of power is power.
- JansjoFromIkea 7y agoFrom what I could see it was the negative focus on Ken Wheeler resulted in a lot of people who found his manner pretty grating abruptly felt comfortable expressing this. (tbh I'm surprised it hadn't happened earlier, guy seems like a good egg but I find him pretty obnoxious). Their dislike, got conflated with the initial hypothesis and at that point you have hundreds of people confused about what's happening and writing up their own rough guesses. Some actual racists began messaging in support of what they interpreted the events as, misrepresenting Ken and others in the process. About 95% of it is just the general toxicity of Twitter reaching a part of the website that generally avoids it.