But the issue here, to me, is that we’re not talking about Cupcakke posting about her eating disorder; we’re talking about her - a celebrity, who presumably has many young and impressionable followers, many of whom are black - essentially advocating for a potentially harmful, medically unproven diet that could cause…

“rather than naming the truth: it’s racist medical providers like her who are killing us.”

Is that something that actually happens or an interpretation?

State-sponsored political assassinations are nothing new. Trump did this to distract from his impeachment and sadly, was correct not to fear much blowback beyond the outrage of American celebrities and the tut-tutting of various global leaders. Suleimani was a war criminal whose worst transgressions were not against…

Sadly it’s got nothing to do with cool heads prevailing in Iran. Their strategy has always been about driving asymmetrical warfare and empowering their proxies across the Muslim world to pursue their geopolitical goals. This will continue. There was only a miniscule chance that the Iranian regime would respond with…

Obviously you’re unfamiliar with the history of Anti-Semitism in Europe and the Middle East. Plenty of ugly history on that front in the US, but it rather obviously pales in comparison with the several-thousand-year history of pogroms, persecution, and other forms of oppression meted out against Jews in both Christian…

Wow this is what you came here to say? Nice. 

Or else, neither of these absolutist “all x are bad” premises are sufficiently nuanced to be taken seriously.

This may be true to a degree, but the ideology of the extremist elements of this movement explicitly condemns Jews and white people, first and foremost — there are plenty of others they hate though, that’s true.

Obviously not. This is a stupid article. The idea that this North African man is too light skinned to play a person who was presumably representative of the ancient population of the Levant is beyond idiotic. It’s as though no one actually pays attention to what people from that part of the world look like in order to…

Not to mention the woman is Indian, looks Indian, and has an extremely common surname among South Indian Christians, which is unsurprising, because she’s from Hyderabad.

Respect your opinion but history is pretty clear that humans, especially male humans with power, are toxic and dangerous. Rape and murder and oppression all existed before white supremacy. 

I’ll probably catch flak for this, but I’m being genuine, not trying to stir the pot: The guy was referring to the wife of the person who essentially called him a sellout on IG - that’s fucked up, but it’s not the same as what this article implies. IF he was referring to black women generally, that would grounds for…

Those books were chosen in different years, and I haven’t seen any indication that this woman was part of the committee in 2014. Multiple and diverse female perspectives are reflected among the authors chosen for this list, but that’s not the point because this is controversy is centered not on the committee and its…

As I’ve laid out elsewhere, we cannot make that assumption based on the information we have available. 

So I’ve done some (very easy, simple) research on this. The committee picks one book each year. Was this young woman on the committee in 2014 when Ready Player One was chosen? Seems unlikely (though, for all of the other reasons I’ve pointed out, even if she was part of that selection, we don’t know her individual…

Good context, but not enough to form a logical basis for the argument - internalized misogyny expressed through an affinity for “male” video game culture - or explain away the extraordinary vitriol; we can’t extrapolate this woman’s opinions on another book based on her dislike of Dessen’s work.

It seems likely that she was not, though I do not know. She does not express that support in this article. Further, disliking Dessen’s work doesn’t mean that this person likes Ready Player One or video game culture, whatever that means; it’s a criticism based on gender stereotypes and baseless leaps of logic. 

Thanks for that context, which I did not see in this article.

Thank you. Such a strangely hysterical reaction, not just on the part of Dessen herself, but on the part of these other authors.