Gwyneth Paltrow is obviously ridiculous. Saying that white people don’t have culture is also ridiculous.

Boredom was what brought me to comment too, so it happens! I kicked myself in the butt for getting sucked into the conversation. After seeing your effort, I knew I had to just let it go. Some people just don’t get it...

Funny how they can manage to understand the difference between gay and trans people when it helps them exclude certain people. They can only discriminate when it helps them discriminate. 

His “joke” required and explanation, which makes it a shitty one. On top of that he follows it up with a tweet about how it was good that during the Haitian revolution the revolting slaves killed thousands of white people. Not just slave owners and proponents of slavery, they also killed many white abolitionists and…

That’s hardly equivalent since neither unicorns nor leprechauns exit and thus can be a subject of genocide while white people definitely do exist and CAN be a subject of mass murder, regardless of the fact whether that at present is a actually, ongoing process.

Very noble of you, but I feel like the person was really just sea lioning.

Articles like this are why we are getting 8 years of Trump.

This is an interesting hill to die on.

Of course history context matters, but that doesn’t mean that his tweet was poorly executed. I’m all for satire, but there is nothing to indicate the tweet itself was just that. When I first read it, I thought it was an idiotic troll rather than a satire on a silly conspiracy. At least satire starts a conversation…

This is more ridiculous than the actual tweet.

Can we say that Ciccariello’s tweet AND the idea of ‘white genocide’ and its supporters are both stupid and ill-advised?

Surely...I mean...SURELY he knew this was going to happen, right?

Honest question. When does it become racist to negatively react to another racist post?

Basically.

The worst part about people like this is that they don’t realize how fucking stupid they are.

Handing racists reasons to be racist is a bad thing. Racists now have objective proof that liberals want white genocide, which then validates the racists violent actions. All they have to do is display his tweet, it “speaks for itself”. Also, which State Farm ad advocated white genocide?

Now that perfesser is one smart cookie. The best place to pose and discuss complex ideas that will confuse or enrage many people is using a medium which restricts a statement to a length of 140 characters and provides little or no context.

Professor trolls with massively inflammatory statement.

White Genocide is nonesense, and this professor decided to express that sentiment in the stupidest way possible

Based on the tweets and his response, can confirm that he’s a clueless academic dork. “White genocide” isn’t a thing, yes, but wishing for the mass killing of white people on Christmas is a bad look regardless of whatever satirical point he was going for.