Article Salon Jumps on the Jace Connors Bandwagon, Now With More Absurdity

[CaptainDong]

Salon published an article this morning about Jan, as well as the man behind a revenge porn site. They decided to up the feminism ante and added some choice quotes such as comparing violence against women to white supremacy. Of course they heavily reference Jan's Buzzfeed article, which is ironic in itself since you'd think that a place that's (at least) trying to be a legitimate 'news' source should know not to take the masterpronker at anything other than face value. Some choice quotes:

Wu was not in on the “joke” and Rankowski’s satire just read as a particularly unhinged, frightening version of the harassment she’d been receiving from thousands of other men. But now that the truth of the video has caught up to him, the men it worked into a frenzy have turned on Rankowski. “They realized I was making fun of them with those videos,” he told BuzzFeed. “I started it as a joke, but it’s become far too real and I wish I could take it all back.”

But the truth is that Rankowski will never really understand what it’s like to be in “the other person’s shoes,” even if he felt sufficiently scared after being targeted. That’s not how life works. Rankowski got a bad shock. He was likely afraid that his job, or maybe even his personal safety, would be compromised by the people harassing him. But the reality is that the kind of abuse that women, people of color and queer women face online isn’t the same thing as a one-off experience of harassment, no matter how frightening.

That’s because this kind of violence stems from something structural, not incidental. A culture of violence against women and white supremacy isn’t a series of isolated events, it’s a system that devalue women’s lives.

Link to the Article:
http://www.salon.com/2015/02/26/men..._is_bad_after_experiencing_online_harassment/

 

[Organic Fapcup]

It might not be a bad idea to join all these articles in a single thread, given the diversity in content (or lack thereof).

 

[Dalcon]

This has been said better and earlier, but it's almost as if the media is bending over backwards to prove themselves as biased and unprofessional as the GGs said they were.

 

[KingofManga420]

This is a hell of a way to start an acting career.

 

[blackie toy]

A culture of violence against women and white supremacy isn’t a series of isolated events, it’s a system that devalue women’s lives.

>implying that a culture of violence against women in the absence of white supremacy is not a system that devalues women's lives

It's like they're not even trying to sound credible.

 

[FBIfellow420]

It might not be a bad idea to join all these articles in a single thread, given the diversity in content (or lack thereof).

Seconded. It seems to me every single article boils down to sucking Brianna Wu's E-peen and talking about how either Jan is a terrorist and/or deserves to be threatened.

 

[dabluearmedbandit]

Jan is gonna get killed by tranny assassins after all!

 

[Arctic]

My God, it gets more ridiculous with every article.

 

[millais]

I find it a bit sad that they all keep taking the Buzzfeed interview at face value. I think only Sam Biddle of Gawker has doubted the veracity of Jan's statements in the interview, the others all just eat it up.

 

[Konstantinos]

Not much must be happening in the world if this is what passes for news.

 

[Ariel]

Not much must be happening in the world if this is what passes for news.

It's all about getting hits

 

[Batman VS Tony Danza]

Have any of these articles actually interviewed Jan themselves or are they all just going off the buzzfeed article and info they get from googling his name? It just seems so lazy.

 

[Konstantinos]

It's all about getting hits

Modern news is its name, sensationalism is its game!

 

[Cum Crime]

"Topics: rape threats"

Is "street race" some sort of euphemism to these people?

Oh, not to mention "racism" and "anti-black racism", what the fuck?

 

[DN 420]

the absurdity of jace had to be transferred somewhere real again. it's basic autism science.

 

[AnOminous]

I find it a bit sad that they all keep taking the Buzzfeed interview at face value. I think only Sam Biddle of Gawker has doubted the veracity of Jan's statements in the interview, the others all just eat it up.

When Sam Biddle is the model of skepticism, these other dumb motherfuckers should be deeply ashamed at the pathetic failures they are as journalists.

 

[Da Big Staw]

I find it a bit sad that they all keep taking the Buzzfeed interview at face value. I think only Sam Biddle of Gawker has doubted the veracity of Jan's statements in the interview, the others all just eat it up.

It's really pretty hilarious how the media just refuses to do any research at all on this. I mean how lazy can you be?

 

[AnOminous]

It's really pretty hilarious how the media just refuses to do any research at all on this. I mean how lazy can you be?

Lazier and more incompetent than Chris-Chan. And these fucking pricks get PAID for this.

 

[KatsuKitty]

That’s because this kind of violence stems from something structural, not incidental. A culture of violence against women and white supremacy isn’t a series of isolated events, it’s a system that devalue women’s lives.

jan stop devaluing women's lives

 

[Zim]

Where's my "uuugh" and facepalm buttons?