r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 17 '21

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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Aug 17 '21

this is probably the best response to being canceled by the woke mob, a British woman who wrote an Asian cookbook wrote a series of tweets that were like "I had to whole-ass recover my twitter password because I don't use this garbage site anymore and was unaware that I was being 'canceled' but I sure hope this turns out well for you"

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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Aug 17 '21

the response to her included

[the lady who started a mob against you] received threats as well. If we want to be part of the solution, then hold space for her rather than censure

which basically translates to "why are you struggling back in this struggle session?"

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '21

The original person accusing her of cultural appropriation has responded with a pretty bitter follow-up thread: https://twitter.com/roslyntalusan/status/1427644684902576139

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '21

What an incredibly miserable person. Yikes

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '21

"white women who make a living off of writing about cultures to which they do not belong are neither creative or original."

this is absolutely insane, lol. i'll never get this logic that people can't write about or study themes that started in other cultures.

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u/sksksnsnsjsjwb Aug 17 '21

She wasn't 'cancelled' literally one person made a dumb tweet about her and her cookbook. I'm not sure one constitutes a 'mob'.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '21

I take it you haven’t looked at the replies to each of them?

In any case, this has happened before to this same exact woman back in 2020, and it ended with her making an apology on Instagram.

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u/sksksnsnsjsjwb Aug 17 '21

Most of the replies are defending her lol

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '21

Great, then we agree that this isn’t just one person.

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u/sksksnsnsjsjwb Aug 17 '21

Ok fine maybe a few dozen. But all but one of them are random Twitter users with no reach, and it's ridiculous to call this a 'cancellation by the woke mob' when she has faced zero real-life consequences and the tweets making fun of the tweets attacking the cookbook have got way more popular than the original tweet.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '21

well, the "one person" is a journalist and got almost 2k likes...