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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Imani Gandy needs better friends or something. She is coming  across poorly not only in terms of character but as far as legal and other analysis. Yikes.[/quote]
Like all the others with the wrong take that Sonya is the victim, she hurls a grenade and announces she'll be muting the thread.  I think the content doesn't matter to some people. They know they can mine the outrage for clicks and a few new followers and people will eventually forget. Except there are a number of people (me included) who are completely obsessed with the story so there might be some backlash.[/quote]

I also think part of what is happening is that this story was (smartly) spun by Larson and Ng as a white woman weaponizing her feelings to attack a woman of color, and lots of prominent women of color are understandably triggered by that narrative. Even though it's not accurate in this situation, it is something that happens a lot, and so without really investigating the truth or details of this situation, people link Gandy and Gay and others are throwing their support behind Larson simply because this sounds like something they have experienced before.

In fact, in Gay's case, I think she has doubled down because her initial support for Larson apparently led some people to write her directly with complaints about that support. And she hates stuff like that because she somewhat famously does not like it when people take issue with her Twitter opinions because she doesn't think she should have to answer for everything she says on Twitter. Which I generally kind of agree with -- it must be be exhausting to be a prominent black, gay, woman and have people constantly asking you to justify everything you say.

So Gay sees people coming after her yet again about one of her Twitter opinions and views it the way she has before -- as white people needing to tell her what to think, at least in part due to racist/sexist/homophobic feelings they might not even be willing to admit to themselves. I mean, I've experienced those same things over and over again so I am sympathetic and can only imagine it's much worse for someone with a prominent voice.

But in this case they are wrong. It makes me frustrated with them for wading into a debate they don't really have the details on, but it makes me actively angry at Larson and Ng for turning this into a conversation about race when it very much was not. There is zero evidence that Dorland actually is some kind of white savior character who weaponizes her emotions against POC. If that's something that has happened in the past I'd want to know about it, but I see no evidence of it in this situation. But people are giving Larson/Ng the benefit of the doubt because they are painting the situation with that brush and to me it's unconscionable. Do they not understand the damage this will do to the next WOC who deals with an actual, not imagined, example of white saviorism or a white woman weaponizing her feelings? These arguments are already viewed suspiciously by many and Larson/Ng are just making them harder to make in the future. I hate saying this but it really feels like they are weaponizing their race to win a petty interpersonal spat, and particularly when you know that Larson is white passing and most of the Chunky Monkeys are white, it starts to feel really really gross to me.

Not to let people like Gandy and Gay off the hook -- they are responsible for their actions. But wow has Ng, in particular, pulled them down this road under false pretenses. If the tide turns I think many of these folks are going to be mad at Ng because I'm betting many of them accepted Larson's story at face value because Ng was vouching for it and they viewed her as someone on their level who understood their concerns. Instead she manipulated those concerns for her own benefit. Yuck yuck yuck.[/quote]

Yes to this 100%[/quote]

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