Ep. 46: Twitter Lunacy (High school cliques, sock puppets, and more!)

Twitter may be a mad circus, but there are still real people and real emotions powering that spectacle, which means important things can still be learned from it. What's the meaning behind Joshua Luna's Nerds of Color brouhaha involving (yet again) WMAF? Or the Celeste Ng and Louis Leung mess involving fake male allies and sock puppet accounts? And what does Black Twitter's drama over Briahna Joy Gray vs. Tariq Nasheed, as well as the recent outburst against DeRay McKesson in Ferguson, have to do with Asian Americans? Oxford, Teen, Mark, and Sammi try to make sense of all this (and Sammi wonders if she should indeed get a Twitter account). Intro/Outro Song: "Heart and Soul" by Hoagy Carmichael Intro Voice Track: Tarleton Gillespie on Custodians of the Internet (CivilServant Community Research Summit at MIT 2018) TWITTER: Teen (@mont_jiang) Oxford (@oxford_kondo) Mark (@snbatman) REFERENCED RESOURCES: Joshua Luna's "Reconciliasian" comic: https://twitter.com/Joshua_Luna/status/983778232918036481 Luna's tweetstorms about Nerds of Color incident: https://twitter.com/Joshua_Luna/status/1040650527879688192 Twitter jihad against Yowei Shaw: https://i.imgur.com/lhOkrMP.jpg Academia silencing Dr. Karen Pyke: https://i.imgur.com/agHy6Br.jpg https://i.imgur.com/nwquIya.jpg Celeste Ng's tweets about not being attracted to Asian men: https://i.imgur.com/XESIDpv.jpg https://i.imgur.com/JJsxoqY.jpg Bitch Magazine on why "To All The Boys I've Loved Before" doesn't over-glorify white men: https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/double-standards-in-to-all-the-boys-ive-loved-before Bitch Magazine on why "Master of None" does over-glorify white women: https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/aziz-ansari-white-feminism-south-asian-women Briahna Joy Gray's tweet putting class above race: https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/1041864771702808577 Tariq Nasheed's tweet about Briahna Joy Gray and white and Asian zaddies: https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1042487646671405056 Briahna Joy Gray's tweet about attacks on her interracial relationship with an Asian man: https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/1042132437847957507 Lana Condor's interview where she compares WMAF with LGBTQ rights: https://www.thecut.com/2018/08/interview-lana-condor-on-to-all-the-boys-ive-loved-before.html Pride Magazine slamming Lana Condor for comparing WMAF with LGBTQ rights: https://www.pride.com/movies/2018/8/28/lana-condor-dont-compare-lgbt-discrimination-interracial-dating Activist protests DeRay McKesson at Ferguson book signing event: https://bossip.com/1668127/yikes-watch-angry-ferguson-activist-crash-deray-mckessons-book-tour-sit-yo-lyin-self-down-you-stole-money-video/ DeRay McKesson's ties to Teach For America: https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/why-deray-mckessons-plan-baltimores-schools-looks-it-comes-right-out-teach Vanity Fair's profile on DeRay McKesson: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/09/deray-mckessons-vest-is-forever