And now that you have that out of your system and are feeling the catharsis, what do you have?

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

Am I the only one who thinks this is vaguely reasonable? Like, they’re job is to do the shows, and if they don’t want to do this particular show... that’s a fine choice to make but it’s incompatible with the job for apparent reasons. What am I missing?

I can sympathize, but at the end of the day it’s a job like any other. If we got a contract from Donald Trump at my job, and I refused to work on the account, I’d be fired. Sometimes standing up for what you believe in requires sacrifice.

Look, okay. The concept of white genocide given historical context is laughable, sure, but that isn’t why the tweet was so misguided.

“To clarify: when the whites were massacred during the Haitian revolution, that was a good thing indeed.”

It’s things like this that reminds me that the far left and the far right are eerily similar. I remember my government professor once argued that the political spectrum could be drawn as a circle or a horseshoe, with the extreme positions meeting (or almost meeting).

So, let’s recap.
Professor: Posts on Twitter an intentionally inflammatory post that could be construed by the average person who (very likely) didn’t have prior knowledge of alternate meanings as a call/wish for an entire subgroup of people to be wiped off the face of the earth.

Commenters: It’s about white people so…

Murdering children for the color of their skin is a good thing. Raping women then executing them in order to prevent them from having children with polluted blood is a good thing. I’m learning so much.

Fuck everyone involved in this story, including Ciccarelio. You’re not making some profound satirical statement about racism. You’re provoking trolls with dipshittery to draw attention to yourself.

I thought his whining over the “tepid free speech defense” was pretty sad. I don’t think that his constitutional rights have suffered any harm. He tossed a grenade, and now he’s upset by the response. With or without his own “tepid satire defense”, he was pretty blatantly trolling by saying something inflammatory…

I’ve never been a fan of mockery as a strategy in debate – particularly in inflammatory situations. Maybe it’s because I’m no good at it? Mockery only seems to elicit emotional outrage, which serves only to further obscure what is already a complicated and confusing situation. I see it as a kind of Tucker…

Freeing up more tenure track positions at a private university adjacent to a major city? Yeah I’m all for it too.

On Sunday, Ciccariello—at that point still enjoying himself—added: “To clarify: when the whites were massacred during the Haitian revolution, that was a good thing indeed.”

Wasn’t the Armenian Genocide a “white genocide?”

Idiot posts something idiotic, other idiots react to it idiotically. Got it.

If that was satire it was extremely poorly executed. Is white genocide a thing? Against all whites by non whites, I don’t think so. But by whites against other whites, yes it has happened ( Holocaust).

Apparently we’re supposed to be outraged that people are outraged that a guy said something that, outside of some fairly specific context, is fairly outrage-inducing?

This is why people hate liberal intellectuals. I say this as a liberal intellectual.

I’m all for free speech & abhor white supremacists, however; without context, how is one to know that such a statement was satirical, and was the point not to stir the wasps nest, thereby exposing the wasps (WASPS haha)? Although death threats are serious and awful, they are probably to be expected when you take on…