Mallory Mosner
2 min readOct 22, 2021

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lmao look at this comment section. Look at all of Medium. Look at Twitter. Almost *no one* agrees with me. It is you who seems to be in an echo chamber. But again, can you see the futility of these kinds of arguments? "You're in an echo chamber" we're all in echo chambers darling we exist in the age of the algorithm. I would think for someone I presume to be some kind of Marxist that you would see the obvious nature of what you just wrote in the context of a capitalist society where you are on a social media writing platform that serves you what you want to be enraged by.

Your original post began with condescending sarcasm, and then, without literally any other logic than the fact that Dave Chappelle has a small number of Jewish friends or associates insults me by suggesting that I'm "making wildly false accusations" and that I "HAVE to get mad at everything," which seems like a character judgment. You then expect me to respond to that respectfully? Get real.

"It was a joke" or "it was a comedy special" is not a valid line of reasoning. Nothing said in jest gains fundamental and wholesale impunity. Words are critiqued and hold meaning that warrants some measure of accountability, especially when proffered on a largescale platform, regardless of how some libertarian-adjacent folks like yourself would like to imagine comedy as a utopian grey area where because "it was said as a joke" it must have had no intention of truth behind it. Propaganda and hate speech also include humor/comedy/memes and other mechanisms for spoonfeeding tacit normalization/acceptance among the masses of concepts that can be rooted in hatred and bigotry.

And no, I assumed you were female, which is precisely why I knew that babe and adorable would bug you, hunny.

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Mallory Mosner
Mallory Mosner

Written by Mallory Mosner

Queer non-binary (they/she) Jewish writer and Ayurvedic Health Counselor who loves puzzles, cats and meditation.

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