Twitter Ablaze With Hot Takes After Learning Very Leftist Influencer Ana Mardoll Works For Lockheed Martin
Twitter is in the process of digesting one of its most convoluted and darkly poetic controversies in recent memory. If you aren’t hip to the latest highly complicated and very online beef, strap in to learn more.
Back in April, young adult (YA) author, social media influencer disability and trans rights advocate Ana Mardoll tweeted about how expecting authors to be interested in other books was ableist. Mardoll’s reasoning revolved around several points, including that some people have ADHD and difficulty focusing, and reading books, in general, can be a little elitist.
Mardoll’s tweets stated that people who write books expecting others to read them should not be mocked for never reading a book themselves. A great number of people disagreed with Mardoll and a few defended him, leading the controversy to balloon out and encompass more than just author Twitter. Like tweetstorms of the past, it was all cleared up within a few days.
But now, the discourse is active again. Lolcow gossip forum Kiwi Farms has revealed that Ana Mardoll is currently employed by Lockheed Martin, an arms manufacturer and defense contractor that has been controversially involved in a number of wars. To put the cherry on top for some, Mardoll controversially got the job at Lockheed Martin through his family.
Many on Twitter, which often delights in hypocrisy, used the revelation about Mardoll’s professional life to shun, cancel and shame him.
Some also took the chance to accuse Mardoll of posing as "purer" than he actually is and of participating in the same kind of online harassment that he is now subject to. Ana Mardoll has since deleted his account in the aftermath.
The discourse took a number of swerves from there. Some extremely progressive posters found themselves defending Lockheed Martin, a company that sells weapons to the U.S. military.
Some then speculated about how the weapons manufacturer would react to the news as it continued trending throughout the day.
A number of people also attacked Kiwi Farms, which has been blamed for several deaths due to purported online harassment or cyberbullying.
Much commentary turned back on itself, like a snake eating its own tail, as Twitter debated and discussed the nature of Twitter debate and discussion into today, also spreading elsewhere such as Reddit's OOTL sub.
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SSmotzer
I'm surprised Vaush's anarcho-Lockheed Martin tweets aren't on here.
A Concerned Rifleman
I guess even intelligent people aren't immune to "luxury ideals" either, if anything they seem catered to by them.
Sumarios
I can't remember where but I recently read a study that showed high education and low income seems to be the peak demographic for wokescolds. Basically, they think they should be part of the elite since they have the credentials but they aren't and are trying desperately to fit in by displaying the values of their betters as loudly and aggressively as they can.
Given that the subject of this entry only works 10-20 hours a week I'd say he fits the bill.
A Concerned Rifleman
Now that you mention it, a lot of wokescolds tend to be people who got wrung out of cash in college and left with a useless degree, though I guess the Underworked and Overqualified also tend to be a good secondary demographic.