Even if we were to take the offensiveness of the tweet as a given, the reaction seems insanely disproportionate. It's great to push back against casual racism,

Even if we were to take the offensiveness of the tweet as a given, the reaction seems insanely disproportionate. It's great to push back against casual racism, but I don't think anything is gained by turning it into a lottery where any given tweet has a one-in-a-million chance of provoking a national-scale, life-destroying burst of outrage, and the rest are ignored.