In their pitiful attempt to argue for the New York Times hiring of racist Sarah Jeong, NBC Has come up with this whopper. It is impossible to be racist against white people or something. This, coming from the network of lily white perverts like Matt Lauer, Tom Brokaw and another as of yet unidentified pervert who will be exposed by the Daily Beast. This is also the same network that refused to run the story about Harvey Weinstein.
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In contrast, as should be obvious to anyone reading them, Jeong’s tweets vented the collective frustration of everyone else struggling on that pyramid of institutional racism. The reason her tweets can be reversed into racist jokes is because racist jokes inspired them. “White people jokes” intrinsically mock all the racist jokes, scientific treatises, magazine covers, and Founding Fathers’ statements about non-white people’s supposedly immutable inferiority, and point out how stupid they are and always were.
Thus, white people getting mad — or publicly performing anger, at least — about white people jokes is actually white people getting mad about threats to white power. Threats like a woman of color joining the editorial board of the New York Times after telling smarter and funnier jokes than them on Twitter. Racism is a mechanism of maintaining an imbalance of power — making it literally impossible, by definition, to be racist against white people, or to tell a racist joke about a white person.
White liberals claiming it’s impossible to be racist against whites is not only flat out dumb, it’s hypocritical from one of the sleaziest networks in the country.