Jon Ronson is an author best known for writing The Psychopath Test, So You've Been Publicly Shamed, and The Men Who Stare at Goats.
He wrote an article defending Rachel Dolezal.
https://www.gq.com/story/jon-ronson-condemns-twitter-response-to-rachel-dolezalHe gets attacked and accused of being a racist.
Jon Ronson: how the online hate mob set its sights on me
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/dec/20/social-media-twitter-online-shameSomeone told me I had no right to weigh into Dolezal’s story because, being white, it wasn’t my story. He added that, unlike her, he had no choice in being black or white. As a black man he was racially profiled every time he walked down the street. He was genuinely angry with me for chipping in the way I had. I explained my reasons – that after 30 years of writing about complicated, spiralling people I had opinions on how to consider them. But he was right. In all the hardening of positions I’d become a caricature.
He also defended Kathy Griffin.
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Kathy, it happened to you!
11:50 AM - 21 Jan 2019
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Ok! She went too far. She was right to withdraw it. But that should be it. There's no reason for a million ****ers to leap in.
4:45 PM - 31 May 2017
https://twitter.com/jonronson/status/870063660109938688
