http://twitter.com/#!/GOPMommy/status/429454285324038144

It seems to have begun with a lengthy piece at The Nation entitled, “Feminism’s Toxic Twitter Wars,” in which Michelle Goldberg examines the Internet as “a crucial place for feminist organizing.” Not all feminists believe they have an equal place at the virtual table, however. The Washington Free Beacon’s Sonny Bunch noted that “the most striking aspect of Michelle Goldberg’s article is the way Twitter is being used to silence those deemed to be not progressive enough.”

“From a right-of-center standpoint,” Bunch observes, “it’s interesting to watch the left grapple with their norm that one need not intend to act as a racist to in fact be a racist…. I’ve always been bemused by the left’s insistence that a failure to intend offense wasn’t a defense against causing offense, so I’m glad to see some of these activists wrestling with the norms they have championed.”

That struggle surfaced Friday in the form of the #WhiteFeministRants hashtag, which landed among Twitter’s trending topics Friday. Which posts are sincere and which are parody we’ll leave for you to decide.

http://twitter.com/#!/RaniaKhalek/status/429388694702010368
http://twitter.com/#!/stevesalaita/status/429390379067006976
http://twitter.com/#!/xMissTanisa/status/429391773547257856
http://twitter.com/#!/nabeyakiqueen/status/429392796358021120
http://twitter.com/#!/mattcharest/status/429393050201497600
http://twitter.com/#!/xMissTanisa/status/429394717306920960
http://twitter.com/#!/SubMedina/status/429407267096494081
http://twitter.com/#!/DearLeader10/status/429406981300834305
http://twitter.com/#!/kaylaCelliott/status/429423231657709568
http://twitter.com/#!/Pundit_AcadEMIC/status/429397612479803392
http://twitter.com/#!/RaniaKhalek/status/429395479445917696

"I know how you feel…I have anti-colonialist relatives"
never gets old
#whitefeministrants— Aniqah (@AniqahC) February 01, 2014

http://twitter.com/#!/nashwakay/status/429445348034351104
http://twitter.com/#!/IAMCLB/status/429449260569210880
http://twitter.com/#!/haleynwallace/status/429453925800886272
http://twitter.com/#!/LKid/status/429424388015144960
http://twitter.com/#!/JeNeSaisTwat/status/429453198412087296

Related:
Twitter fight: #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen calls out progressives of pallor

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/01/31/feminisms-toxic-twitter-wars-inspire-whitefeministrants/