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But now he's shaking up cyberspace again with his claim that two popular "bloggers" - Choire Sicha of Gawker.com and Ana Marie Cox of Wonkette.com - are guilty of subtle racism.

Brooklyn essayist John Lee was a swashbuckling computer hacker nicknamed "Corrupt" when Wired magazine put him on its cover a decade ago.

The 29-year-old Lee has cleaned up his act since the Wired story headlined "Gang War in Cyberspace."

But now he's shaking up cyberspace again with his claim that two popular "bloggers" - Choire Sicha of Gawker.com and Ana Marie Cox of Wonkette.com - are guilty of subtle racism.

"These sites have decided that one way to telegraph their supreme coolness is to continually joke about non-whites as marginalized second-class citizens," Lee, who is African American, wrote about the Web logs owned by British Internet entrepreneur Nick Denton.

"It's this casual, damaging disregard that is hard to quantify, and yet, Gawker and Wonkette exemplify the growing phenomenon of white hipsters adopting a casual racism," Lee continued. "Is it any wonder so many still feel blogging's a white man's sport?"

Since Lee leveled his charge this week on Africana.com, a chorus of bloggers have weighed in pro and con, and Sicha and Cox have been at pains to defend themselves.

"I would applaud John Lee for making me feel guilty, but I am a white liberal - it's just not that hard," Cox wrote. "My intent ... is to mock the powerful and to draw attention to the hypocrisy of the true believers. If Lee didn't understand that's what I was trying to do [in her facetious commentary on rap mogul Russell Simmons recently disrupting a celeb-studded Democratic strategy session on the upper West Side], I don't think it's my job to explain the joke to him."

Sicha, meanwhile, E-mailed me: "My interns are busily drafting Mr. Lee a lengthy memo on the meaning of sarcasm."

Lee, for his part, sounded greatly amused.

"Who knew this firestorm du jour would inspire a response like Dean losing a primary?" he told me. "When Gawker and Wonkette are confronted with their own brand of sarcasm and subjective inspection they react like a comedian bombing onstage, saying, 'You don't get it!'

"We do get it. It's just funnier to see how thin-skinned they are."

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