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>The campaign against Jeong is some bs about old tweets where she mimicked the racism she gets back, recast as racism against white people.

Having read all of Sarah Jeong’s tweets as they pertain to this controversy, I find it hard to believe that many were intended as satire. She has a clear pattern of unprompted tweets that make sweeping negative generalizations about white people, particularly old white men. I’m white, and I don’t like being singled out and put down on the basis of my skin color. It is alienating, it is dehumanizing, and it provokes an immediate instinctual (and generally unproductive) defensive emotional reaction.

I don’t buy the excuse of, “they started it.” Sarah’s obviously faced tons of online harassment, but since when have two wrongs ever made a right? The Golden Rule doesn’t say, “Treat others as you would like to be treated, except white people.” I would expect better from someone in Sarah’s position.

Having said that, a few racially-bigoted tweets don’t justify a 4chan harassment campaign. I also understand how it becomes difficult to discuss such an issue when an online hate mob is so clearly invested in one side of it.

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> I don’t buy the excuse of, “they started it.”

Spot on. Once you start excusing things with "they started it", you're no longer on a slippery slope, you're in free fall (and her tweets make is seem like she's enjoying the ride).