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Give an example of reactionary Twitter trying to cancel someone for anti-white comments?
Why is there an expectation that when engaging in clear attention seeking behavior like telling someone you won’t take their job offer because you refuse to work for a Jew that you won’t get attention for your comment?
Think about it, there’s zero reason for Franco to have ever sent this message (rather than ‘no, sorry’, ‘not interested’, or just ignoring and blocking him) other than to grandstand. I would guess he immediately posted a screenshot of the ‘sent’ message to a friendly Discord, forum, whatever to show how based he was. Now the travesty is that his grandstanding got him the attention he was clearly seeking?
By the way, I agree with you that Jews should try not to draw attention to antisemitism. It is and always has been a losing game. But the actions the DR is criticizing weren’t unreasonable, they would applaud the same done by their perceived in-group, and this drama is just a lot of hypocritical faux outrage on their part.
Of someone woke got fired for being anti-white, and it got whipped up into a national scandal, where senior administration officials pledged to put pressure on anyone who might hire them.
That's not what happened. For one, as per your own summary, if he was getting spammed, it sounds more like he was looking for a way to get them to fuck off. He didn't pick the wisest way of doing that, but then again, he's 19.
Secondly, the tweet didn't say "I won't take their job offer". It said that if someone does take his offer, he will pressure them to get him fired.
Do we know that this actually happened? I thought the drama came out from the would-be employer side. If so, if anyone is seeking attention it's them.
Low-key blackballing him would have been fine. Making a public example out of him is what people are objecting to.
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