Sarah Jeong

Sarah Jeong in 2016

Sarah Jeong (born 1988) is an American journalist born in South Korea. She is on the editorial board of the New York Times. She is the author of The Internet of Garbage, a non-fiction book about online harassment.

Quotes

• Oh man it's kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men.
  Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins?
  • July and December 2014, according to 2 August 2018 article by BBC

• This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but with an anime avatar calling you a cuck
  • 23 July 2016

• America is not doing so hot right now
  I was hypnotized by the travel ban, the way, you know, a chicken gets hypnotized by something it's afraid of
  I'm a very privileged person. And I am, like, completely documented. Everything's in order, and I'm educated. I speak English. I don't have that much to be afraid of. But whenever I run into one of these — and I'm not going to again, and that's amazing — whenever I ran into those issues, my heart would start pounding. I just felt really stressed out about it every time.
  • July 2017 interview by Vox