I wonder if Jez’s defense of him at this moment has more to do with their previous enthusiasm for him; it’s hard to backtrack and say “woah, maybe this guy ain’t so cool,” especially if you’re in a pseudo-journalistic role and expected to fully vet the person you’re endorsing in the first place. That was my first…

My friend and I were just discussing this last night. I hadn’t read much about what the tweets said, but damn. When she emailed them to me I was seriously shocked that the Jezebel staff her is brushing off any criticism of him so cavalierly.

Definitely. I mean, there’s absolutely no way that the anger towards the author could have anything to do with the fact that, on a woman’s interest site, she basically called us all idiots for being mad at him for the deeply misogynistic shit he said.

I don’t know in what universe you think a man gets a pass to make horribly dated, sexist jokes about women (and LGBT people) just because he happens to not be white, but I don’t want to live in it.

No, I’m saying that historically Jezebel has taken people to task for this exact behavior, and currently, Jezebel is doing a 180 and suggesting it is idiotic to criticize something they have a well documented history of criticizing.

You can be an “incredibly thoughtful and considerate and funny and smart individual” and still be racist/bigoted/misogynistic. We live in a racist/bigoted/misogynistic world, it happens - just apologize, try to be better, and move on. Fauxpologies that amount to “sorry not sorry” don’t count.

Actually, let me respond again, because I’m being a hypocrite.

It’s “off the cuff” not “off the cusp”. The rest of your post was a bit of a damp squid after that.

Yeah, it’s not like he was making shitty, offensive jokes in his Sims universe.

“Give Noah a chance to fuck up in real life.”

Holy shit this, further proof that jezebel will make exceptions for someone they like. At least try to have a little consistency, fuck.

And deny people the pleasure of watching me slowly implode in the comments?

THANK YOU. Also— These are NOT just tweets from several years ago. Two weeks ago he tweeted “Oh how awful people are leaking nudes again now where exactly is the link?”. About a month ago he tweeted “That dress makes Katy Perry look like she has a baby in her belly”. . .which is, not even a joke, just a shitty sexist…

Holy shit, this article is horrible.

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Why was it a “ridiculous amount of so-called backlash?” He tweeted some incredibly stupid and offensive things and got what I feel was an appropriate amount of “so-called backlash.” Not from this site, however, but from the Internet as a whole.

You know, I take serious issue with the fact we are calling this idiotic. The jokes he wrote weren’t funny, and they were definitely antisemitic and weirdly misogynistic for literally no reason. It didn’t even improve the stupid, shitty jokes. Had he been, say, a Republican staffer who was making inappropriate…

I just, don’t understand why we are giving him the runway. We go off on so many people for exactly the same thing Noah did. I mean how many times have we read that “the Internet is real life” and that threats and statements on the Internet do carry real world consequences? Why is Noah being left off for misogynist and…