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Roseanne fired but Sarah Jeong hired?

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  • #32
    Sal Butamol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭Sal Butamol


    If the Democrats and media focused on Trumps policies instead of their hysterical meltdowns and "muh Russian Hackers" bollox they'd handily defeat him at the next election.

    But no, more hysteria is needed. Twats.


  • #33
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Phoebas wrote: »
    Is this going to be a thread where lots of people who have never even heard of Sarah Jeong before are going be outraged because she got a job in a paper they don't read?

    I’ve lived in the US and have read the NYT. I used to have a sub. Even after I left I kept an internet sub. It’s a fairly world famous newspaper although it’s definitely overrated.

    Why would it matter if we never heard of Jeong before?


  • #34
    20Cent
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    Serious bang of gammon off this thread practicaly sizzling. Lol.


  • #35
    Call Me Jimmy
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    It's nice to see there is consistency in their hypocrisy.


  • #36
    xtal191
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    Have a scroll through these tweets

    https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1025437806775226368


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  • #37
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    20Cent wrote: »
    Serious bang of gammon off this thread practicaly sizzling. Lol.

    Is gammon some kind of anti Irish attack? Reported.


  • #38
    Sleeper12
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    Ulysses Gaze wrote:
    Listen, I've argued that the Irish were enslaved for 800 years under the yoke of colonialism.


    Ah we weren't really though. Things weren't always so bad under the Brits & don't forget that our 1916 heros were at the time considered criminals and vandals, by the Irish people themselves, till they were executed

    Apart from the genocide that was the famine most Irish were content with their lot


  • #39
    Call Me Jimmy
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    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    Is gammon some kind of anti Irish attack? Reported.

    Better, it's white working class. They may even go as far as to say 'no, not working class. all white people' as a defense.


  • #40
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    Ah we weren't really though. Things weren't always so bad under the Brits & don't forget that our 1916 heros were at the time considered criminals and vandals, by the Irish people themselves, till they were executed

    Apart from the genocide that was the famine most Irish were content with their lot

    That’s a whole rewrite of history. Happy with their lot under the penal laws?

    When I mentioned slavery before i was thinking way back in time to vikings and before. Celts were major victims of roman slavery too, although they often sold each other into slavery.


  • #41
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Call Me Jimmy wrote: »
    Better, it's white working class. They may even go as far as to say 'no, not working class. all white people' as a defense.

    Ethnic Irish people are white skinned. So are jews. Scots etc. European immigrants.

    Might start a feedback thread on this anti Irish, anti Celtic, anti Semitic anti immigrant phrase.


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  • #42
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,302 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote:
    That’s a whole rewrite of history. Happy with their lot under the penal laws?

    Ah jasus the Irish have always been happy. We've like to have a wee moan about things is all


  • #43
    20Cent
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    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    Is gammon some kind of anti Irish attack? Reported.

    No it's a joke about pompus white people getting all offended about nonsense.


  • #44
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    20Cent wrote: »
    No it's a joke about pompus white people getting all offended about nonsense.

    Where did it come from? Which white people does it specifically target? Jews? Poles? Irish? Romanians? Or what?

    It certainly didn’t originate here in Ireland which is a good reason why Irish people should worry about ideologies generated at the centre of the Empire and the employees at it’s “paper of record”


  • #45
    Blazer
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    Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »
    She has a problem with Battlestar Galactica!!!!

    oh **** u bitch..don't you dare slag off BSG...


  • #46
    Taytoland
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭Taytoland


    It's absolutely laughable. It's some of the most racist tweets you will see and yet she isn't fired. It's basically if you are white, you are fair game, be as racist towards white people as much as you want but if it's the other way, it's instantly fired and vilified.


  • #47
    DickSwiveller Returns
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    I really don't care if she's sacked or not and won't be kicking up a storm. But just imagine the reaction if this had been the other way around. Are people like her so thick that they don't think sharing remarks like that will come back to bite them?


  • #48
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    jacksie66 wrote: »
    Sure us white single men are the worst things in the world these days.

    Some of us have gone very thin-skinned, constantly looking for things to be offended by.


  • #49
    Venom
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    DickSwiveller Returns wrote: »
    I really don't care if she's sacked or not and won't be kicking up a storm. But just imagine the reaction if this had been the other way around. Are people like her so thick that they don't think sharing remarks like that will come back to bite them?


    The usual posters like the one who claims its just people getting worked up about nothing over this, would be foaming at the mouth if white was replaced with any other race in those tweets.


    Sure if they didn't have double standards, they'd have none at all :)


  • #50
    Will I Am Not
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    Hapax Legomenon wrote: »
    Some of us have gone very thin-skinned, constantly looking for things to be offended by.

    Never heard of her and until today, don’t really care what she thinks. Am I allowed to agree that it’s double standards or does that make me offended by default?


  • #51
    DavidLyons_
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    Hapax Legomenon wrote: »

    Some of us have gone very thin-skinned, constantly looking for things to be offended by.
    I take then that if the word white were replaced by black or Syrian or traveller and the comments posted here you'd react in the same way should anyone take issue with it?


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  • #52
    jacksie66
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #53
    Atoms for Peace
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    Twenty Grand wrote: »
    Maybe she should be a little bit more grateful after the white people liberated Korea from Japan after WW2 and fought the North Koreans in the 50s.

    You shouldn't mess with me
    I'll ruin everything you are
    You know, I'll give you television
    I'll give you eyes of blue
    I'll give you men who want to rule the world


  • #54
    Zechariah Ancient Pint
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    Venom wrote: »
    The usual posters like the one who claims its just people getting worked up about nothing over this, would be foaming at the mouth if white was replaced with any other race in those tweets.


    Sure if they didn't have double standards, they'd have none at all :)

    The same ones who had a meltdown over George hook and crying to the sponsors of news talk


  • #55
    DONTMATTER
    Site Banned Posts: 1,413 ✭✭✭DONTMATTER


    The perpetually offended our out again. :D The angry men are full of hate.


  • #56
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    jacksie66 wrote: »
    Can I not get offended for once? Seems as if the left have all the fun..

    You've unwittingly hit the nail on the head there.


  • #57
    20Cent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,940 ✭✭✭20Cent


    What happened to freedom of speech, it's only a joke etc .....


  • #58
    the purple tin
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    Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »
    She has a problem with Battlestar Galactica!!!!







    What a cow.
    She's obviously cracked in the head.


  • #59
    DavidLyons_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭DavidLyons_


    DONTMATTER wrote: »
    The perpetually offended our out again. :D The angry men are full of hate.
    Ah here.

    Presume you've no problem with what she tweeted so?

    "Perpetually offended"? Deary me. It must be very hard for you to live with so much bitterness and impotent rage.

    If your posts weren't so palpably sour and full of hate I'd almost feel sorry for you.


  • #60
    uncle_sam_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,192 ✭✭✭uncle_sam_ie


    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    Well according to Vox, the tweets are 6 years old, she was just being sarcastic in her tweets using the language of the alt-right against them and she is a celebrated feminist tech journalist so this is all a storm in a teacup.

    The fact that she writes a column in Voxs sister site has no bearing on their defence of her.

    At all......

    Trying to justify her racist remarks by saying she was reacting to harassment is clear BS. There's a clear pattern of racist and sexist behavior
    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1025437806775226368.html


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  • #61
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    uncle_sam_ie wrote: »
    Trying to justify her racist remarks by saying she was reacting to harassment is clear BS. There's a clear pattern of racist and sexist behavior
    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...775226368.html

    Racist against white people? Sexist against men?

    Those are the worst kinds of racism and sexism.


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