People only hate her for her appearance? Are there no valid reasons to hate her?

I'm so happy I'm not famous and not in my twenties.

Okay. Bye.

It's not just about twitter. It's about people tone policing and demanding that a person of color communicate in a way that YOU feel comfortable.

(edit: Twitter is not something you should really be getting this mad about.)

This? What you are doing right now? This is called tone policing. KrampusCate wrote a wonderful piece about it. People are allowed to express themselves in whatever way they feel best. It might not always sit well with you and here's the thing, they still get to do it.

Read the whole thread, POC have explained multiple times and are being met with either feigned ignorance or actual stupidity. How long do they have to try and politely educate people who clearly aren't listening?

And we are telling you it wouldn't. This is the best way to reach her, which was the whole point. It's the best way to reach a large group of people who definitely need to hear it. You have to understand the audience. A long ass essay that looks like chastisement isn't going to go anywhere. A link that you have to…

Would it have made it easier for YOU to read the message Tip was bringing if he had just linked to an essay on The Root? I think, yes. Clearly.

God, fucking white people. What exactly do you not get? If 'it', in your case, refers to why Q-Tip would use Twitter to write this then you are pondering the wrong point. The point here is NOT what format it was written in, but that it had to be written at all, to explain to that shitbag Iggy what the hell she's doing…

Your patience with this s**t is admirable.

Demonstrably false. Try again.

Dude no. I don't think anyone called you a racist (I haven't checked though) but even if they did, it would be because of your elitist dismissal of the effectiveness of a medium that is largely black, not because you don't get the tweets and the memes and the hashtags.

And so would a f-ing lot of other people. Even old fogies like moi. I liked it. I was impressed.

1. Because twitter is the medium through which all of this started, and the only one where it can be guaranteed Iggy would see his message.

It's not an get off my lawn thing. You just don't get it.

Upside: one less James Franco movie I have to see commercials for.

Consider a username change.

i need a goddamn vodka.

You have missed every single point. Please take a reading comprehension course and a history course, then come back and re-read the essay.