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Bean Dad went on to address his past use of racial slurs and anti-Semitism, as well as repeated rape jokes throughout his Twitter feed, claiming “all of those tweets were intended to be ironic, sarcastic. I thought then that being an ally meant taking the slurs of the oppressors and flipping them to mock racism, sexism, homophobia, and bigotry.” Eventually, he says, friends persuaded him that “my status as a straight white male didn’t permit me to ‘repurpose’ those slurs as people from disenfranchised communities might do. They were injurious regardless of my intent, because the words themselves have power and because actual violence is often prefaced by people saying, ‘I’m not racist, but… ” He says he has stopped using such language.
Seattle musician, podcaster apologizes for bean dad story
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Even in a normal year, there is never a huge amount to look forward to in January. Once you’ve drained the last joy from the festive season via Women’s Little Christmas, and bid a fond farewell to a mountain of waste once the three Wiser men, following a Greenstar in the east, arrive at your crib bearing the gift of a trash compactor, the rest of the month is when we just put the head down and get on with some quiet sobbing.
Among the few events to look forward to in the immediate advent aftermath are two things your first payday of the new year, and the kids going back to school. This year, obviously, is different. We are fortunate in that payday will come, but like everyone else, the return to school is less certain. The news breaking in our house that school reopening was being delayed was greeted with cheers (them) and weary sighs (us) because this places us under a de facto house arrest again, trapped with our kids, very much like Ripley was trapped aboard the Nostromo wi
Bean dad divided Twitter, claiming he made his daughter go hungry because she couldn t use a can opener. Then his old tweets resurfaced.
INSIDER 1/6/2021 © grandriver/Getty Images A viral thread made Bean Dad trend on Twitter. grandriver/Getty Images
A Twitter thread from podcaster and musician John Roderick, in which he described making his nine-year-old daughter figure out how to use a can opener after she said she was hungry, drew ire online.
Many criticized the actions Roderick described in the thread, and others resurfaced some of his old tweets that contained anti-Semitic and offensive language. Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings hosts a podcast with Roderick and defended him, and comedy podcast My Brother, My Brother, and Me announced it was dropping its Roderick-penned theme music.
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