Posted on 04/01/2019 2:00:50 PM PDT by Ennis85
I would be remiss if I let the day pass without challenging my colleague Eddie Scarry. Earlier today, he defended right-wing writer Denise McAllister — formerly of the Federalist and the Daily Wire, from both of which she's since been fired — for a Twitter tirade against journalist Yashar Ali. The tweets, which I won't relay here in their entirety, essentially amounted to McAllister attacking Ali's homosexuality in response to this tweet.
https://mobile.twitter.com/yashar/status/1112165806274682881/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1112165806274682881&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fopinion%2Fdenise-mcallisters-public-meltdown-was-indefensible-and-homophobic
In since-deleted tweets, McCallister then wrote:
“A gay men commenting on a heterosexual relationship is just. Sad. Pathetic really. I think @yashar has a crush on me. Maybe I’m making him doubt his love of penis. Oh so sad. @yashar is lost. He doesn’t know his purpose as a man. He doesn’t know his purpose as a human being. He doesn’t know his purpose as an Individual. So he wallows and tries to find himself in another man’s ***hole. Sad.”
Scarry defended McAllister on the following grounds:
“Is McAllister a homophobe? I have no clue ... But no one who has suffered through the insufferable Twitter mob can blame her for her temporary insanity ... McAllister hit back at Ali where she thought it might hurt because she knew what he was encouraging the Twitter mob to do to her. That doesn’t automatically make her a homophobe. It makes her a righteously angry woman.”
But McAllister wasn't just unjustified in hitting Ali "where she thought it might hurt." She wasn't even righteously angry to begin with.
To begin with the obvious, anyone who enters public life signs up for the risk of public criticism. While we ought to inculcate a culture of grace and not try to scalp every personality or politico for honest mistakes, Ali wasn't punching down and he certainly wasn't doing so in a way that was beyond the pale. McAllister, who has more than 68,000 Twitter followers, publicly discussed her personal life, as she often does in the course of criticizing feminists. Ali, who has 389,000 followers, fired back.
I've been at the bottom of a Twitter mob before. I think every journalist with a blue check mark probably has. And guess what? I've never, ever, ever lashed out at someone's sexuality before, much less in as graphic and insulting a way as McAllister did. McAllister had every right to defend herself, but her response is disgusting and indefensible.
Scarry says that he has "no clue" if McAllister is actually a homophobe, or if, as he hypothesizes, she simply chose a sore spot to invoke maximum damage. You know what's a great clue that she's a raging, bigoted, and vicious homophobe? Her own words, effectively an attempt to shame gay people into thinking that they are less than human.
Furthermore, McAllister is one of the meanest people on Twitter. She has engaged in doxxing of Twitter personalities and, after weeks of obsessively tweeting about writer and podcaster Bridget Phetasy, she effectively directed a mob of incels toward her. The harassment and death threats got so bad that Phetasy had to temporarily deactivate her account. Dozens of her friends had to call her to check in and make sure that some online fanatic hadn't found her address.
McAllister is the worst kind of walking contradiction — a bully performing as a victim, a misogynist performing as an empowered wife, a sex-obsessive performing as a Christian. The only thing she's finally accepted openly is a hatred of gays within herself so virulent as to make her unfit for public life and unworthy of public defense.
The girl speaks truth to power.
Almost no one who doesnt like homosexuality is homophobic.
They do not have irrational fears about it at all.
Applying incorrect labels to critics isnt working.
I thought it was hilarious. There’s a huge difference between “public criticism” and the Twitter Outrage Mob. The latter should NEVER be caved in to. Ever.
Her point was (and still is) perfectly valid: what does a homosexual man know about being a wife? I noticed Ali didn’t really have an answer for her.
Sorry, but the use of the word “phobe” immediately identifies the writer as one whose output is elementary and stupid. No matter right or left, such childish and almost universally incorrect use of that word indicates stupidity.
Making any remark about the carnal aspect of homosexuality is a major and unforgivable violation of Political Correctness. It’s so repulsive it ruins the “gay” mantra.
The moral of the story: “Twitter is for twits”. Sorry, PDJT, no exceptions.
Maybe a half step above all the idiots posting endless “Selfish” photos on their Face-Crook pages for their 500,000 “friends” to ooh and ahh over.
Is there any untruth in this? Seems like a simple statement of fact, not a phobia.
There is no such thing as homophobia. No one is afraid of homos; but they are disgusted by what they do to each other.
Ding,ding,ding...we have a winner.
Count me as one of those disgusted by what homosexuals do to one another in the name of carnal pleasure.
It’s not a “lifestyle” choice, it’s an abomination.
“Homophobic” is a made of word to demean and delegitimize people who are averse to the Homosexual lifestyle.
“phobic” is defined as an irrational fear of...” People who oppose homosexual behavior do NOT fear homosexuals.....They may be disgusted, repulsed, repelled, even sickened or piteous but fearful....not a chance.
It’s a made up word that does not even come close to describing the true homosexual opposition mindset.
Tolerance will not be tolerated.
“He doesn’t know his purpose as an Individual. So he wallows and tries to find himself in another man’s ***hole. Sad.””
The ONE forbidden thing is to mention the reality of what they do. The despise that.
You go girl!!!
The evil charge.
They want us all to think they are not mentally ill
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