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So two months and a stain on your character (deserved or not deserved) is an "inconvenience"?

An inconvenience is when you stop at a gas station and they don't have your favorite drink in stock.
 
Jazz Spazz said:
So two months and a stain on your character (deserved or not deserved) is an "inconvenience"?

An inconvenience is when you stop at a gas station and they don't have your favorite drink in stock.
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For people with the power and breadth-of-work that Hardwick possesses, yes. Compared to the impact his behavior has had on his Dykstra, yes again.
 
One Brow said:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life...ed-return-amcs-talking-dead-aug-12/837143002/

His life is back on track, not even two months later.
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I don't know, man. If my name was blasted online (on the front page of many websites) because of something I said years ago that perpetrated me as homophobic, a racist, etc for things I said as a teenager and close to 10 years ago, I'm sure it would mentally **** with me and give many a false prejudgement of my character.

Let's be honest here, this is a lot worse than a few months of ridicule. Their names will forever be online with articles that say "racists" and "homophobic." Dude posted a line from white chicks and now he's being called a racist 7 years later. Give me a break.

This is not to say I condone their tweets or simply wanna brush them under the rug. It's saying give them the benefit of the doubt before you drag them through the mud. People say some stupid **** in high school. I know I certainly did. People change. People learn. People progress. Not everyone, obviously but this **** is getting old to me.
 
Sarah Jeong got a free pass from the NYTs, her employer, for her Twitter history. I thought good for them and then read her tweets. The only thing I can think of is there's a huge double standard.
 
Archie Moses said:
Sarah Jeong got a free pass from the NYTs, her employer, for her Twitter history. I thought good for them and then read her tweets. The only thing I can think of is there's a huge double standard.
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Is it? Is that because she was more open with her disdain, while David Brooks has to hide his behind code words and vague references?

Goblins gotta grumble.
 
JustTheTip said:
I’m glad she didn’t get fired. She’s allowed to voice her opinion, even if it is stupid.
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What about Roseanne though? Plus, NYTs just fired Quinn Norton for similar tweets.

I don't want her fired, but how people are defending her and making it seem like she's being attacked by the "alt right trolls" is ****ing pathetic.
 
One Brow said:
Is it? Is that because she was more open with her disdain, while David Brooks has to hide his behind code words and vague references?

Goblins gotta grumble.
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Yeah, people do and should grumble about racists tweets. I mean, can you imagine being an older white dude that works with her?
 
Archie Moses said:
What about Roseanne though? Plus, NYTs just fired Quinn Norton for similar tweets.

I don't want her fired, but how people are defending her and making it seem like she's being attacked by the "alt right trolls" is ****ing pathetic.
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She didn’t do anything illegal, the **** she says is kind of a known deal for her, and her employer doesn’t have to fire her because people on the internet are fake mad.

Now is there a double standard? It would certainly appear so, but Internet lynch mobs are stupid. You look at Kevin Williamson who got fired from The Atlantic because people went crazy online. It’s stupid. Are those same people demanding this lady get fired? Are the people who were mad Williamson got fired demanding this lady get fired? Double standard on both sides. And Williamson was just because he said abortion was murder. But the internet lynch mob spoke, and stupid decisions were made.

Now I don’t know this lady, think her name is Sarah Jeong, but cannot remember how to spell it for the life of me...based on her tweets I probably wouldn’t agree with very much of what she said, and I don’t care for CNN that much, but good for them on not firing her. They knew her body of work going in, and they’re going to stick by that. I applaud that.
 
JustTheTip said:
She didn’t do anything illegal, the **** she says is kind of a known deal for her, and her employer doesn’t have to fire her because people on the internet are fake mad.

Now is there a double standard? It would certainly appear so, but Internet lynch mobs are stupid. You look at Kevin Williamson who got fired from The Atlantic because people went crazy online. It’s stupid. Are those same people demanding this lady get fired? Are the people who were mad Williamson got fired demanding this lady get fired? Double standard on both sides. And Williamson was just because he said abortion was murder. But the internet lynch mob spoke, and stupid decisions were made.

Now I don’t know this lady, think her name is Sarah Jeong, but cannot remember how to spell it for the life of me...based on her tweets I probably wouldn’t agree with very much of what she said, and I don’t care for CNN that much, but good for them on not firing her. They knew her body of work going in, and they’re going to stick by that. I applaud that.
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I made this thread because I think it's lame internet mobs are calling for people's jobs from tweets they made in the past so I agree with you on her not getting fired. It's amazing how many people have gone under fire in the last month or so. Both the left and the right are at each other's throats.

I'm more bugged by the NYTs (and other leftists media) defending her and making her seem like she's the victim of her racists tweets. Granted, I'm sure she's been the victim of racists assholes too, but fighting racism with racism, hate and stereotypes is counterintuitive and wrong. It's simple really. Her tweets are embarrassing for her.

It's people like her that are responsible for dividing the country just as much as Trump and the media.
 
Not just as much. Maybe her words/actions are similar or worse, but she doesn’t have the same power as the Trumpster.

She’ll never persuade anybody to switch parties though.
 
Archie Moses said:
Yeah, people do and should grumble about racists tweets. I mean, can you imagine being an older white dude that works with her?
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An older white dude that works with people of oppressed populations and who are displeased with said oppression? Gosh, I can't even imagine that.
 
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