Re:Defining Public Interest on Twitter
by wanderer2323 on Friday June 28, 2019 @07:55PM
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I am pretty sure that if one would take the approaches you have outlined - e.g. quoting some TV show, making a 'provocative title', speakig in an exagerrated accent -- but with the people <colour> swapped, they would be flagged in a relatively short order. No matter how bening the motive, the message is not OK. The fact that you think that it is OK and make excuses for it is the illustration of my GP post's last point.
Re:Defining Public Interest on Twitter
by pgcj_poster on Saturday June 29, 2019 @10:24PM
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I disagree. If you go looking, you can find verified accounts suggesting killing Hispanics [1], putting Jews in ovens [2], killing Indians [3], and otherwise committing genocide [4].
[1] https://twitter.com/KillerMike/status/612315197663940608.
[2] https://twitter.com/TheBillyProcida/status/62535136510415257...
[3] https://twitter.com/ZaidZamanHamid/status/505972865766658048
[4] https://twitter.com/AlexisGZall/status/604026752013230080
- Dadito Calderone was making a joke about people who pretend to be concerned about crime in black neighborhoods when really they're trying to demonize black people as criminals.
- ka5sh, and possibly Brian Clevinger, is quoting the TV series Roots.
- Bobbie Oliver was talking about a movie in which a black man escapes slavery by killing his captors.
- Shay Stweart Bouley was sharing a story with an intentionally provocative title
- Tracy Bommeisha-Ann Clayton was ironically using a painfully exaggerated black accent.
- Yasser Lester is saying something similar to Nick Hanauer telling plutocrats to beware of pitchforks and torches.
None of these people were actually advocating for killing white people, nor or they making these jokes in a targeted way that would constitute bullying. Furthermore, many of these tweets are many years old, which indicates that they were found by scraping the bottom of the barrel.