Empirical Questions In The Jeong Dust-Up
Jeong and the NYT claim that Jeong's apparently racist tweets were responses to racist trolls; she was mimicking their style.
Now...you know as well as I do that this defense would never be deemed valid by the left were it used by a white person. So...special pleading, yet again...
But never mind that. Shove it to the side.
What I'm interested in here his this: this is a question that can be empirically tested. If Jeong was responding to racist trolls, then show us the Twitter history--the twistory, if you will. Twitter's a public platform, and all that stuff is in a big list, yes? I don't know the proper terminology because Twitter is an absurd, pile of shit platform for hurling half-baked thoughts at each other...but you know what I mean.
Anyway: show us the tweets.
Show us the racist trolling that generated Jeong's responses in each case.
Should be easy enough, no?
Again, I don't think that the interesting issues here are about Jeong personally. But the semi-official progressive defense of Jeong starts with the "troll defense" claim. This is a testable claim. Cough up the evidence.
Though, again: I seriously ask you to imagine those tweets produced by a white person, aimed at Asians or blacks, and imagine the White Devil in question pleading response to trolls. Just imagine how the left would respond to that.
Now...you know as well as I do that this defense would never be deemed valid by the left were it used by a white person. So...special pleading, yet again...
But never mind that. Shove it to the side.
What I'm interested in here his this: this is a question that can be empirically tested. If Jeong was responding to racist trolls, then show us the Twitter history--the twistory, if you will. Twitter's a public platform, and all that stuff is in a big list, yes? I don't know the proper terminology because Twitter is an absurd, pile of shit platform for hurling half-baked thoughts at each other...but you know what I mean.
Anyway: show us the tweets.
Show us the racist trolling that generated Jeong's responses in each case.
Should be easy enough, no?
Again, I don't think that the interesting issues here are about Jeong personally. But the semi-official progressive defense of Jeong starts with the "troll defense" claim. This is a testable claim. Cough up the evidence.
Though, again: I seriously ask you to imagine those tweets produced by a white person, aimed at Asians or blacks, and imagine the White Devil in question pleading response to trolls. Just imagine how the left would respond to that.
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