Who the hell is this Sarah Jeong?

[Archae]

Apparently she has become the face of the New York Times, over at Faux "news," and some of her tweets (if real,) sound like a total asshole.

[NCTraveler]

1. The "controversy" over journalist Sarah Jeong joining the New York Times, explained

In standing by its decision to hire the well-known tech journalist, the Times shut down a major bullying tactic of the alt-right.

The New York Times announced this week that tech journalist Sarah Jeong will join its editorial board — and the ensuing outcry from right-wing Twitter was both swift and familiar.

Jeong is a venerated tech culture journalist with a broad range of expertise, known for everything from authoring a book on systemic online harassment to reporting on major internet case law. (She’s currently a senior writer at Vox’s sister site The Verge, which she’ll be departing for the Times.)

She’s also an outspoken progressive and feminist, making her an obvious target for the right-wing internet mobs that have been especially active of late, launching organized smear campaigns against left-leaning celebrities by weaponizing their old jokes and tweets.

The most high-profile recent example of this is Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn, who was fired by Disney after a concerted push to dredge up and circulate several of Gunn’s old tweets. Many of the tweets contained jokes about topics like rape and pedophilia — but they were also several years old, purposely taken out of context, and pointedly curated and misrepresented to paint a very specific picture of Gunn with the express goal of getting him fired.

https://www.vox.com/2018/8/3/17644704/sarah-jeong-new-york-times-tweets-backlash-racism

[Archae]

3. Thanks, but...

A few of the tweets I read, (if they are accurate,) are really off-the-wall.

There is a difference between "outspoken," and stupid.

[wonkwest]

7. It is not only the right-wing that has major problems with her

She's been a topic of conversation among my very liberal friends, and the consensus is unanimous: Dump her.

She's hateful. And, no, there is no justification for her words.

[RhodeIslandOne]

10. She was twitter trolling people who were attacking her

Including one person who called her “a dog eating gook”

But no, everything she said was just as bad as that.

[wonkwest]

11. That is a nonsense excuse

Replace white with any other ethnicity, and tell me this supposed "counter-trolling" would be acceptable.

It's racism. She also slammed white women.

This justification of her is going to cost us elections. If the Democratic Party and the Left are ever perceived as overtly and acceptably anti-white, we're going to get more Trumps.

Fox is having an absolute field day, and you know what? We handed it to them on a platter.

And yes. Much of what she said was just as bad as that. Have you read through her tweets? I have. There is some heinously racist shit in there.

[RhodeIslandOne]

12. It's really amazing to me

For everyone of her, there are a hundred deplorables saying shit a thousand times worse. Surprisingly, FUX News agrees with you that what they say isn’t important either.

Keep apologizing for everyone at the Democratic Party. THAT is why we really lose.

[ellie]

16. Thank you

[ProudLib72]

2. Context

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Dr. Strange]

4. She's a fairly brilliant tech writer.

But she fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia," but only slightly less well-known is Popehat's Rule of Goats:

[pintobean]

5. She's an nasty bigot

The Times needs to dump her asap.

[LanternWaste]

17. That's certainly not a "mindless personal attack"

[pintobean]

18. You dug up a four day old post

just to make that reply?

[wonkwest]

6. She's a bigoted racist

The Times done fucked up on this one.

More and more is getting unearthed about her, and none of it is even remotely pretty.

That the Times backed her after this all surfaced is baffling.

Then she attempted a cutesy, "Oh, it's all satire!"

If this is the quality the Times is looking for, it's a hard pass for me.

[question everything]

15. Smerconish dedicated a large part of his program to her

He differentiated between "counter punch" when someone attacks her, and some initiated by her "f**ck all whites"

[hfojvt]

8. some think that her hiring represents progress

https://thinkprogress.org/sarah-jeong-new-york-times-twitter-old-tweets-the-verge-conservative-racism-306be939ba92/

Although their defense seems kinda all over the place.

[Shemp Howard]

9. This is why we can't have nice things.

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Someone on the right says or does something truly horrid. Immediately conservatives fall over each other trying to defend the indefensible.

Then someone on the left says or does something truly horrid. Immediately - you guessed it - progressives fall over each other trying to defend the indefensible.

That's not true of all conservatives or all progressives, of course. But it's true for far too many. (And yes, I've been guilty of it at times. But it's a weakness I try to control when going into any political discussion.)

[WillowTree]

13. I don't undestand why Twitter let her tweets stand when they're hate speech of the first order.

What a sad way to live.

[oberliner]

14. Recently hired by NY Times for editorial board

Debate ensuring with respect to her tweets. The left is supposed to be on her side, it looks like.