IIRC, it wasn’t the things she said, but her double-down response that got her fired in Quinn Norton’s case. Could be wrong, but I both don’t feel like re-hashing that one and kinda remember disagreeing with them on that one? It’s not like the NYT is super consistent about anything. I’m not here arguing for them; I’m…

The double standard of people getting offended by actual racism vs. white people jokes? Because they are two different things with VASTLY different histories of violence.

That’s so fucking depressing, though. We were winning against smoking, and then vaping came along. Now my sixth graders are doing it, when I *never* had a kid that smoked before, and I’ve been in grades 6-8 for ages. 

Uh, so she doesn’t get to marry Perseus, one of the better demigods?

I seriously doubt it, when this Beemo exists.

I’m not saying that I expect this case to turn out well, but:

...except white privilege.

He was trying to say that his parents being immigrants had some bearing on this discussion. I was trying to figure out what that bearing was. The only thing I could come up with was that he was trying to speak as a POC, because otherwise that comment makes no sense, so I was clarifying.

...except that the Jews didn’t have power or control. White people do. The Holocaust was based on lies. You’re shockingly wrong about this history as someone that should know better.

Yup- that has kinda what’s been making me nervous about the whole “Permit Patty” stuff. Not that Patty or her ilk deserve ANYTHING, but that the right is watching and they’re going to disingenuously copy our moves, and if our moves are “Get person fired through internet mob due to inevitable big-brother like…

OH, you visited Buchenwald. Well, then. And your parents were immigrants.

I didn’t say she had been fired? You’re the one making grand statements, here. I’m just saying that editorials are biased according to the newspaper runners’ views, and that making jokes before becoming an editorial writer isn’t unheard of. Not sure how that makes my views “binary,” and I said nothing about any sort…

Thank you! I’m kind of dreading my replies on this one, so this was nice to read, other than the fact that includes incredibly depressing information. 

That random-ass news generator item is a bit upsetting. Why are musicians standing up for the incel hero? How does *that* connect?

So there has never been an editorial writer that made jokes before? OK. 

Uh, SJWs would totally get those jokes, so drop that shit from your post. Snowflakes? Now THAT fits!

...a racial identification OF PEOPLE IN POWER. That is made up and constantly changing to include or exclude different groups based on the current cultural standpoint. Whiteness is mostly defined as what it’s not, not what it is.

A lot of them seem to be on this thread! Toughen up, white people! Even my mom understands that this stuff is meant as a joke, and she’s the biggest “Can’t we all just get along?” person I know!

She’s not attacking specific people here, though. She’s attacking a construct (whiteness). With humor. It’s pretty much the highest high road she could take while still expressing frustration with the situation.

Potato, Potahto; I thought they were funny. To each their own.