This thread is fascinating because of what it’s finding so controversial https://twitter.com/XavierDLeau/status/1306269536103010307

Cookout Twitter is really losing its mind over an innocuous tweet simply saying you can’t hate straight Black men and still call yourself problack look at the angry replies and quote tweets to this https://twitter.com/TorraineWalker/status/1306201341837152256

Exhibit 1, presented without commentary

Exhibit 2, writes and hosts for slate, and look at the other black blue checks who work for media agreeing

This stance may surprise people but I actually think people have a total right to hate straight black men if they want to, especially if they’re honest about it. Let me know who I’m dealing with. What I hate is hating them but still using them for a come up

You should not be getting coveted jobs in media, activism circles, academia, as spokespeople on issues that primarily affect straight black men if you are loud and proud about how much you love to hate them. Esp. if you are going to be talking to white audiences on these issues

If you get jobs in punditry, academia, media, activism and spend much of your time using your identity as a shield to negatively propagandize about your own people you’re no better than Candace Owens. In fact you’re worse cuz she at least doesn’t try to pretend to play both sides

If you are so offended by being told you shouldn’t hate straight black men+call yourself problack that you without shame loudly and proudly double down on your right to openly hate them, what makes you any better an advocate for Black ppl in the public space than a Jessica Krug?

...you’re nearly as alienated and hostile to a majority of the black communal experience as she is at that point.

what kind of clarification is this? She claims she was misunderstood and it was just a joke but doubles down that the original sentiment about it not being okay to hate black men and call yourself problack is asinine...that's why ppl are mad! that you think it's asinine sentiment

The whole reason people are mad is that you think the sentiment you quote tweeted is asinine. You doubling down on calling it asinine doesn’t solve anything. They aren’t mad that you made a joke they’re mad at what you thought deserved being reduced to a joke

the real problem with that tweet being deleted and maybe another reason it had to go was all the Blue checks and people in politics and media and academia who snitched on themselves by liking and replying favorably to her tweet. there were a LOT but now they're mostly gone

Okay this is even weirder. Now people are saying hating straight black men is actually a *requirement* for being problack? Is the logic here that straight black men are so dangerous to black women and queers that eliminating them is a net positive for the black population?