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    What'sWhiteSalty&WetAllOverAnne Branigin
    8/22/18 12:33pm

    So, fragile white women cried fragile white tears over an article about fragile white ass tears, and ultimately got a WOC fired because they don’t know how to read or reason.

    This shit right here? This is why you heauxs won the Wypipo tourney. Stop this shit white women, just stop. Go drink a pumpkin spiced latte and pretend to workout, and stay home, mind your business, stay out of ours, and like, be normal and shit.

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      myopicprophetWhat'sWhiteSalty&WetAllOver
      8/22/18 12:55pm

      This shit right here? This is why you heauxs won the Wypipo tourney.

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      MyBestFriendIsXWhat'sWhiteSalty&WetAllOver
      8/22/18 1:00pm

      Loved this part:

      Go drink a pumpkin spiced latte and pretend to workout

      Some how every white girl went to the gym for 4 hrs yesterday and I never understood that

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    myopicprophetAnne Branigin
    8/22/18 12:32pm

    Alternate headline: Two Women Prove The Untrue Thing That Offended Them To Be True

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      No!Wire!Hangers!myopicprophet
      8/22/18 1:06pm

      How can anyone get fired over posting an article from The Guardian on their personal Facebook page, which is set to private? I know labor laws in the US are bullshit and people have virtually zero protection but surely this has to be illegal?

      I mean, getting fired over posting any article on FB is ridiculous, unless it’s promoting hate crimes or something, but this is an article from a very reputable and reliable news source.

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      myopicprophetNo!Wire!Hangers!
      8/22/18 1:13pm

      How can anyone get fired over posting an article from The Guardian on their personal Facebook page, which is set to private?

      Racism.  Next question.

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    rusholmeruffianAnne Branigin
    8/22/18 12:08pm

    I get the impression that the people who produce local TV news aren’t a whole lot more sophisticated than the people who consume it.

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      Rooo sez BISH PLZrusholmeruffian
      8/22/18 2:54pm

      Especially at SINCLAIR.     They were just looking for a reason to fire her, apparently, after she’d raised the fact that she’d been passed over for promotion more than once for younger white women who were less qualified (and her race discrimination lawsuit is in federal court).

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    Palestine2040Anne Branigin
    8/22/18 1:12pm

    This infuriates me. My ww coworker is now  giving me the “silent treatment” because I called her out on her racism and privilege. My husband says that she feels I owe her an apology. 

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      WherehaveyoubeenallmylifePalestine2040
      8/22/18 1:49pm

      I’m almost certainly on your side on this.  But would you care to elaborate?

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      DCFemPalestine2040
      8/22/18 1:59pm

      Someone quit a womens group that I’m in for the same reason. Too bad, so sad. 

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    SheeshTheseNamesAnne Branigin
    8/22/18 12:36pm

    Well, they were just waiting to get her on SOMETHING, and they succeeded. 

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      No!Wire!Hangers!SheeshTheseNames
      8/22/18 1:07pm

      But is this even “something”? How does posting an article from a legitimate and respected news source like The Guardian, on your personal Facebook, count? 

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      SheeshTheseNamesNo!Wire!Hangers!
      8/22/18 1:12pm

      Oh, it doesn’t really need to be anything. They just needed an excuse.

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    WherehaveyoubeenallmylifeAnne Branigin
    8/22/18 12:24pm

    I just read the article and I am curious what the sentence containing “White women” and “shit” actually was.

    I do agree that if a person speaks to a woman, and the woman ends up crying, it is not necessarily that th first person “made her cry,” but it is just that the woman “is crying.”  Perhaps her crying is totally inappropriate and irrelevant to the conversation.  Perhaps the first person really just made the person feel as she deserves to feel.  

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      bassguitarheroWherehaveyoubeenallmylife
      8/22/18 12:32pm

      I read that Guardian article about a month or two ago when it was first making its rounds, and so much of it was spot-on. I’ve had times when coworkers have wanted to talk to me about white privilege, and just the act of describing it has caused them to start crying because they had to keep reminding me that “that’s not me, I wouldn’t do that,” and they literally couldn’t/wouldn’t separate themselves from the system I’m trying to describe, to the point where the conversation has to stop entirely. It’s just another tool of protecting privilege.

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      Wherehaveyoubeenallmylifebassguitarhero
      8/22/18 12:47pm

      Are you black? So, white coworkers COME TO YOU to talk about white privilege, and end up crying because “That’s not me”?

      WTF? Privilege is something you just plain have for being that thing. I am white/Asian, but I look far more white/ambiguous. Whenever people say that white privilege doesn’t exist, I say that it does exist. They roll their eyes at me, and I say, “I look a lot more white than Asian, and the social benefits of that are tremendous and obvious.” They unroll their eyes and agree. What did I do to get that? Nothing, but I just plain have it.

      Some examples of privilege are not universally distributed among the “privileged set.” For example, I am a male high school teacher and the prevailing understanding is that male teachers are more respected by the students. Most articles on this subject say that, and they also say, “especially if he is big and tall.” Well, what if he is not? I am tall but very thin, and I think that my male students really see this as their opportunity to assert their own masculinity by being particularly disrespectful to me.

      I am treated with a level of cruelty which my female colleagues don’t experience.  Let me put it this way, if a 14 yo boy tells his male teacher to “go fuck himself,” that is bad, but also kind of badass.  Telling that to a female teacher makes him look more like an asshole than a badass.

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    Old white guyAnne Branigin
    8/22/18 4:09pm

    The irony of being fired because of the white tears of co-workers for sharing an article about how white women use white tears as a weapon against POC.

    And it appears they were offended just by the fact this article existed and she shared it (as there’s no mention of her saying “This is what I mean, Becky, when I say you keep getting your way over me by whining to the boss about being scared to go into the city to cover a story”).

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    cjas9298Anne Branigin
    8/22/18 1:11pm

    “We talk about toxic masculinity,” Ajayi warns, “but there is (also) toxicity in wielding femininity in this way.”

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    HolyGRUNTY 101Anne Branigin
    8/22/18 1:42pm

    who says she was fired from her job after two white women took offense to the article

    I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Articles like this depict racist white women. If you’re not racist, why should this bother you?

    Hmmmm, whats that? They took umbridge to that article because they felt that the article was calling them out? Either these two have the THINNEST SKIN (Woman the fuck up) or, you know.... They’re pissed because they know that they’re the type of white woman that the article is discussing.

    Gotta love it when racist fools out themselves. Because that article isn’t really wrong, White women wail like banshees when they think their Black sisters are gonna get some recognition or equality. All of their “think of the children,” and “we’re already equal, stop suppressing us,” or my favorite, “My thoughts and prayers for your family murdered inside your own Church because our fake tears stopped any kind of regulation that might have kept them safe and we refuse to silence those who are promoting such hate,” style excuses.

    Fuck all y’all, go smoke some meth and find a cactus to fuck.

    Edit: And don’t come back.

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    usedtobehereAnne Branigin
    8/22/18 1:56pm

    was once sent alone to interview a KKK member in their home.

    Holy shit. I’ve done research which had me go into people’s homes, and you NEVER send an interviewer alone to ANY location, never mind one that clearly has the potential to be antagonistic. This alone is bad enough—with all that other garbage in play? Sue the pants off them, Ms. Benson. Sue them into the ground.

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