{"id":182851,"date":"2015-05-22T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/22\/and-so-i-must-add-another-to-the-list-of-they-who-must-not-be-named-2\/"},"modified":"2015-05-22T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T00:34:00","slug":"and-so-i-must-add-another-to-the-list-of-they-who-must-not-be-named-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/22\/and-so-i-must-add-another-to-the-list-of-they-who-must-not-be-named-2\/","title":{"rendered":"And so I Must Add Another to the List of They Who Must Not Be Named\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MBPgXjkfBXM?rel=0\" width=\"350\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>The Stupid, it Burns Us!<\/i><\/div>\n<p>I must add (thankfully former) Twitter &#8220;Hashtag activist&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/121861\/suey-parkof-cancelcolbert-fame-has-stopped-fighting-twitter\">Suey Park, who face planted with her #CancelColbert tag<\/a>  about a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>It started with \u2026\u2026\u2026 Hell, just watch the attached video.<\/p>\n<p>Short version:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Football team owner and contemptible scumbag Dan Snyder, facing criticism for his team&#8217;s name, founds the &#8220;Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation&#8221; in a ploy that not even his own mother would believe.<\/li>\n<li>Colbert makes joke about this.<\/li>\n<li>Comedy Central tweets punchline bereft of context.<\/li>\n<li>Ms. Park has a Twitter fit, despite never having seen the original joke, which goes viral.<\/li>\n<li>Colbert answers back (He is actually very gentle to her and savage on the cable news coverage) in the attached video.<\/li>\n<li>Ms. Park becomes a laughing stock.<\/li>\n<li>Dirtbag misogynists sent threats of murder and rape to Ms. Park, and she gets <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doxing\"><abbr title=\"The Internet-based practice of researching and broadcasting personally identifiable information about an individual, typically in an attempt to intimidate them into silence.\">doxxed<\/abbr><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We can all agree that nothing that Ms. Park did merited the threats against her person.<\/p>\n<p>What is also clear that, even by the incredibly lame standards of &#8220;Twitter Hashtag Activists,&#8221; Suey Park squandered whatever credibility she once had: She has become a punchline to a very bad joke.<\/p>\n<p>She has made some attempt to rehabilitate her reputation (see link), but, I don&#8217;t care about her reputation, or how she feels about herself, or how she might have learned from the experience.<\/p>\n<p>Until she does something that affirmatively proves that her opinions have some insight beyond what could be generated with an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ELIZA\"><abbr title=\"A crude artificial intelligence program which simulates a a Rogerian psychotherapist\">ELIZA<\/abbr><\/a> program, she goes on my list of <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/They%20Who%20Must%20Not%20Be%20Named\">They Who Must Not Be Named<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stupid, it Burns Us! I must add (thankfully former) Twitter &#8220;Hashtag activist&#8221; Suey Park, who face planted with her #CancelColbert tag about a year ago. It started with \u2026\u2026\u2026 Hell, just watch the attached video. Short version: Football team owner and contemptible scumbag Dan Snyder, facing criticism for his team&#8217;s name, founds the &#8220;Washington &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1065,997,1118,982,1082],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-internet","category-meta","category-stupid","category-they-who-must-not-be-named"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}