Teh One Who Knocks
06-21-2016, 10:27 AM
By William Hicks - Heatstreet
A white Chicago-based Social Justice Warrior with 11,000+ followers on Twitter is under heavy fire after criticizing the grieving father of the toddler who was snatched by an alligator for his “white privilege.”
Although her real identity is unknown, “Brienne of Snarth” maintains an influential Tumblr page, has been featured in Fusion, , and her tweets are often embedded in various articles around the web.
Here’s the Tweet:
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Despite protecting her Twitter account, Brienne of Snarth came under a swift and severe online backlash.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/femme_esq">@femme_esq</a> you're such a hero, so brave to not be sad about a child dying. have you ever heard of 4chan</p>— nullface (@ksheely) <a href="https://twitter.com/ksheely/status/743233509473587205">June 16, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Oh @femme_esq, tell us more about white privilege please. <a href="https://t.co/Qcs0RsUZCu">pic.twitter.com/Qcs0RsUZCu</a></p>— Cassandra Fairbanks (@CassandraRules) <a href="https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/743347705536094212">June 16, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">@femme_esq Tell me more about how a 2 year old deserves to die for his race and gender. I wanna be progressive like you mom.</p>— Larry (@datavortex) <a href="https://twitter.com/datavortex/status/743323238667714560">June 16, 2016</a></blockquote>
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But some actually defended her.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">@femme_esq "Rules are for everyone else, not for me!" - White cis guy proverbs</p>— Baronesa (@Baronesa1980) <a href="https://twitter.com/Baronesa1980/status/743116998041821186">June 15, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/Baronesa1980">@Baronesa1980</a> @femme_esq it is extremely woke to use a dead 2 year old to make this point</p>— Greg (@grgdwyr) <a href="https://twitter.com/grgdwyr/status/743232727701397504">June 16, 2016</a></blockquote>
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A white Chicago-based Social Justice Warrior with 11,000+ followers on Twitter is under heavy fire after criticizing the grieving father of the toddler who was snatched by an alligator for his “white privilege.”
Although her real identity is unknown, “Brienne of Snarth” maintains an influential Tumblr page, has been featured in Fusion, , and her tweets are often embedded in various articles around the web.
Here’s the Tweet:
http://i.imgur.com/gSnSNXx.jpg
Despite protecting her Twitter account, Brienne of Snarth came under a swift and severe online backlash.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/femme_esq">@femme_esq</a> you're such a hero, so brave to not be sad about a child dying. have you ever heard of 4chan</p>— nullface (@ksheely) <a href="https://twitter.com/ksheely/status/743233509473587205">June 16, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Oh @femme_esq, tell us more about white privilege please. <a href="https://t.co/Qcs0RsUZCu">pic.twitter.com/Qcs0RsUZCu</a></p>— Cassandra Fairbanks (@CassandraRules) <a href="https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/743347705536094212">June 16, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">@femme_esq Tell me more about how a 2 year old deserves to die for his race and gender. I wanna be progressive like you mom.</p>— Larry (@datavortex) <a href="https://twitter.com/datavortex/status/743323238667714560">June 16, 2016</a></blockquote>
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But some actually defended her.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">@femme_esq "Rules are for everyone else, not for me!" - White cis guy proverbs</p>— Baronesa (@Baronesa1980) <a href="https://twitter.com/Baronesa1980/status/743116998041821186">June 15, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/Baronesa1980">@Baronesa1980</a> @femme_esq it is extremely woke to use a dead 2 year old to make this point</p>— Greg (@grgdwyr) <a href="https://twitter.com/grgdwyr/status/743232727701397504">June 16, 2016</a></blockquote>
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