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On Facebook, oppression, identity, dating and the swarthiness of immigrants.

Mar 14 2015
I’m not asking to be your ally. I’m asking you to be mine. I need help fighting patriarchal-heteronormative-white-supremacist-uber-capitalist-owning-class-hegemony too.

Jeff Dorchen’s Facebook feed strikes again. He just wants to post funny pictures of himself and texts mistranslated by Bing, but instead he’s dragged into a snakepit of internet comments, accusations of racism and general ideological butthurtedness.

 

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Jeff Dorchen

Jeff is a visual artist, songwriter/musician, actor, essayist, fiction writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter. He's been a playwright, songwriter, and performer with Chicago's Theater Oobleck since 1988, a writer and actor with Red Baron Films since 2000, and a contributor to This Is Hell! since 1996. He currently lives in Los Angeles. He writes the Substack, Right Twice A Day. 

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