Hackbusters! - Typical leftie double standards
Aug 27, 2016 16:45:43 #
Typical leftie double standards...
Ben Crystal ~ August 26, 2016
Earlier this year an actress named Leslie Jones, the co-star of the box-office-bomb Ghostbusters remake, got embroiled in a nasty Twitter flame war. That particular battle, which stemmed from a bad review given to her cut-rate Ghostbusting, resulted in the social media giant expelling Breitbart Tech editor and conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopolous; a topic I discussed in my column The Twittering of America (http://personalliberty.com/the-twittering-of-america/).
Wednesday afternoon Jones again stepped into social media ground zero when her personal website was reportedly hacked. The hacker(s) supposedly gained access to her site to post private files, including naked photos which were reputedly of the actress. And then Leslie Jones became the most important person in the weird world of online discussion. Lost in the chaos…whether she deserved any of it.
Every liberal within reach of a computer, tablet or smartphone began shrieking loud enough to wake the people who bought tickets to her movie. Jones was a victim of racism! Jones was a victim of sexism! Jones was a victim, period! And here I was, thinking a “strong, black woman” could handle the rigors of maintaining a celebrity lifestyle, even against the supposed demons of social media.
The outraged roar – which I lovingly call “the coefficient of butthurt”(CoB) – rose to a fever pitch throughout the day. Hollywood stars poured out messages of support for the supposedly-embattled actress. Hate blogs like Salon, parody sites like “Vox,” and tabloid rags like The New York Daily News and The New York Times published lengthy condemnations of the purported cyber-intrusion.
Not one made any mention of the ugly truth waiting in Jones’s closet. Leslie Jones may be a victim, but Leslie Jones is also a raging bigot. Among her “punchlines:”
• A profane rant in which she referred to Yiannopolous as an “Uncle Tom Faggot” whom “we need..to gas..to death.”
• An assertion that all white girls look alike.
• This insane bit of antisemitism: “Yo them dudes with the curls on the side of they head does that make them more Jewish?”
• An apparent — and stunningly racist — reference to Lebron James having an off night: “Why is the goofy white boy coming thru!! The announcers won’t even call him lebron. The jamesing like a Muthafucka! Wake up James!!”
So, the “victim” has quite a few “victims” of her own; although her ugly bile seems to have slipped behind the curtain, drowned out by the sudden CoB. Considering her track record of noisy and noisome public remarks, including the box-office implosion of the Ghostbusters remake, Jones certainly needed a boost. Lo and behold, along comes the “hack” of her personal site. In what must have been a coincidence, the “hack” occurred a day before Hillary Clinton, who leaves victims nearly everywhere she goes, was scheduled to deliver a speech in Reno, Nevada on the evils of online harassment.
Look, it’s possible Jones is the victim of a hacking. Just because the circumstances around the event seem rather neatly assembled to her benefit doesn’t mean she “Kardashian-ed” the whole thing. Just because she’s an unfunny racist who clearly needed a career win doesn’t, either. Nor does the curious timing of the incident, which will likely feature prominently in Clinton’s Reno babblefest (my deadline arrived hours before the old girl took the stage).
However, I can’t help but notice the CoB for poor miss Jones is significantly louder than that proffered for the victims of President Obama’s illegal hacks of everyone from reporters like James Rosen to pretty much anyone who used “tea” and “party” in the same email. I also can’t help but notice that the same people who defended the now-defunct paparazzi site Gawker are suddenly furious about a very conveniently-timed hacking of a supposed comedienne.
There is no doubt that cybersecurity is — or at least, should be — a major concern for everyone, celebrity or not. I strongly recommend everyone take a gander at G.S. Early’s column in yesterday’s Personal Liberty Digest® (http://personalliberty.com/cyberwar-real-threat-opportunity/). But save the sads for someone who deserves them.
Ben Crystal ~ August 26, 2016
Earlier this year an actress named Leslie Jones, the co-star of the box-office-bomb Ghostbusters remake, got embroiled in a nasty Twitter flame war. That particular battle, which stemmed from a bad review given to her cut-rate Ghostbusting, resulted in the social media giant expelling Breitbart Tech editor and conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopolous; a topic I discussed in my column The Twittering of America (http://personalliberty.com/the-twittering-of-america/).
Wednesday afternoon Jones again stepped into social media ground zero when her personal website was reportedly hacked. The hacker(s) supposedly gained access to her site to post private files, including naked photos which were reputedly of the actress. And then Leslie Jones became the most important person in the weird world of online discussion. Lost in the chaos…whether she deserved any of it.
Every liberal within reach of a computer, tablet or smartphone began shrieking loud enough to wake the people who bought tickets to her movie. Jones was a victim of racism! Jones was a victim of sexism! Jones was a victim, period! And here I was, thinking a “strong, black woman” could handle the rigors of maintaining a celebrity lifestyle, even against the supposed demons of social media.
The outraged roar – which I lovingly call “the coefficient of butthurt”(CoB) – rose to a fever pitch throughout the day. Hollywood stars poured out messages of support for the supposedly-embattled actress. Hate blogs like Salon, parody sites like “Vox,” and tabloid rags like The New York Daily News and The New York Times published lengthy condemnations of the purported cyber-intrusion.
Not one made any mention of the ugly truth waiting in Jones’s closet. Leslie Jones may be a victim, but Leslie Jones is also a raging bigot. Among her “punchlines:”
• A profane rant in which she referred to Yiannopolous as an “Uncle Tom Faggot” whom “we need..to gas..to death.”
• An assertion that all white girls look alike.
• This insane bit of antisemitism: “Yo them dudes with the curls on the side of they head does that make them more Jewish?”
• An apparent — and stunningly racist — reference to Lebron James having an off night: “Why is the goofy white boy coming thru!! The announcers won’t even call him lebron. The jamesing like a Muthafucka! Wake up James!!”
So, the “victim” has quite a few “victims” of her own; although her ugly bile seems to have slipped behind the curtain, drowned out by the sudden CoB. Considering her track record of noisy and noisome public remarks, including the box-office implosion of the Ghostbusters remake, Jones certainly needed a boost. Lo and behold, along comes the “hack” of her personal site. In what must have been a coincidence, the “hack” occurred a day before Hillary Clinton, who leaves victims nearly everywhere she goes, was scheduled to deliver a speech in Reno, Nevada on the evils of online harassment.
Look, it’s possible Jones is the victim of a hacking. Just because the circumstances around the event seem rather neatly assembled to her benefit doesn’t mean she “Kardashian-ed” the whole thing. Just because she’s an unfunny racist who clearly needed a career win doesn’t, either. Nor does the curious timing of the incident, which will likely feature prominently in Clinton’s Reno babblefest (my deadline arrived hours before the old girl took the stage).
However, I can’t help but notice the CoB for poor miss Jones is significantly louder than that proffered for the victims of President Obama’s illegal hacks of everyone from reporters like James Rosen to pretty much anyone who used “tea” and “party” in the same email. I also can’t help but notice that the same people who defended the now-defunct paparazzi site Gawker are suddenly furious about a very conveniently-timed hacking of a supposed comedienne.
There is no doubt that cybersecurity is — or at least, should be — a major concern for everyone, celebrity or not. I strongly recommend everyone take a gander at G.S. Early’s column in yesterday’s Personal Liberty Digest® (http://personalliberty.com/cyberwar-real-threat-opportunity/). But save the sads for someone who deserves them.
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