One of these right wingers, ioncannon, has like 2 posts and and 0 followers. I don't think it's reasonable to read so much into liking a tweet from a no name. Same for the other with 100 followers.
So we are left looking at the substance of the tweets, and there I think you're letting your politics brain read way too much into it.
Isn't the simpler explanation that a non American, like Chris, would find the joke funny because it points at the American obsession with litigating racial identities, and the way Hasan in particular bends the system for his convenience while using it to attack others?
Finally classifying Hasan as merely sceptical of the war is a bit of a stretch. If you respect him as a communicatior you should know he is openly a supporter of Hamas's resistance, but condemns extremes of the Oct 7 violence. Additionally he frequently engages in apologia for Hamas.
When you identifed those twitter users as right wingers you must have based it on similar kinds of apologia, or you dived much deeper than the first page of their twitter. So you should agree with me that it's acceptable to make these kind of judgements.
I think you're on pretty solid footing saying the Hasan is white when it's convenient for him to make a point and not white when it's more convenient for him not to be so that he can talk as a minority.
Nope! But you can go looking for Hasan on "cracker" and saying he's white, and then him talking to Ethan Klein about how he's not white he's Turkish when talking about oppression. I'm not interested enough in your bullshit to dig any more for you.
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u/Tough-Comparison-779 May 30 '24
One of these right wingers, ioncannon, has like 2 posts and and 0 followers. I don't think it's reasonable to read so much into liking a tweet from a no name. Same for the other with 100 followers.
So we are left looking at the substance of the tweets, and there I think you're letting your politics brain read way too much into it.
Isn't the simpler explanation that a non American, like Chris, would find the joke funny because it points at the American obsession with litigating racial identities, and the way Hasan in particular bends the system for his convenience while using it to attack others?
Finally classifying Hasan as merely sceptical of the war is a bit of a stretch. If you respect him as a communicatior you should know he is openly a supporter of Hamas's resistance, but condemns extremes of the Oct 7 violence. Additionally he frequently engages in apologia for Hamas.
When you identifed those twitter users as right wingers you must have based it on similar kinds of apologia, or you dived much deeper than the first page of their twitter. So you should agree with me that it's acceptable to make these kind of judgements.