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Hello welcome to the weeds on the box media podcast network. I am Matthew Eglaceus here. No wait

Wait, I'm not Matthew Eglaceus. I'm mr. Klein here not as usual on a Tuesday with Jane Kostin and Dylan

Matthews we are talking maybe in the aftermath. Maybe it's simply a pause in the skirmishing but amidst the great Twitter Wars of 2018

the fires of Sarah's young are burning out and we wanted to talk a little bit about

These collisions happening on Twitter what they sort of say about the fight over identity politics the fight over whether there can be and what is if there can be white racism

We got a great paper on dehumanization, but but let's begin with the specific as we go into the the general here

Let's talk about the the Sarah's young thing

So Sarah is a writer at our sister site the verge fantastic fantastic tech journalist who is hired by the New York Times to be a member of their editorial board focusing on

Technology issues about as soon as that happened

Something that has become very common occurred, which is alt-right trolls. I think in this case Mike Surnovitch and co yeah

Yeah, so like actual flat-out racists. I want to say yeah, like Gateway Pundit and worse like actually

I think was one of the first people to post so just noting that because I actually think it is relevant here

One through her tweets and found a lot of tweets that if you read them literally are

quite

Unpleasant towards white people. I'm gonna read a few of them because I think it's important

But but I wanted to say as I do this and we'll talk about this is like a total context collapse

But but that is what happened so some of these tweets said things like hashtag cancel white people or white men or bullshit or

Oh, man, it's kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men or white people stopped breeding soon

You'll all go extinct soon if that was my plan all along

So a bunch of these tweets got screenshot put up it became a viral tweet about this then it got picked up

I would say more respectable

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