Re:Twitter, Responsibility, and Accountability
by Kye on Monday October 19, 2020 @03:36PM
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Pretty much. The sneering calls from checkmarked writers for some of these on Twitter for genocide of "bad places" (like where I live) is always unnerving. Some might be joking, but some of them really do believe everyone in the southeast is a tea-sipping, noose-making, dog-kicking monster. And those same people will insist they're very pro-LGBTQ and anti-racism as they call for the genocide of every person they claim to be for in those regions. Which is a lot of people.
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Re:Twitter, Responsibility, and Accountability
by RonaldRaygun on Monday October 19, 2020 @11:55PM
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> as they call for the genocide of every person they claim to be for in those regions.
Excuse me? This seems like quite a claim to be making, if it is in good faith. Or we have very different conceptions of the pretty clear-cut term "genocide" (such as the dog whistle misappropriation, "white genocide.") Care to elaborate or provide any evidence at all for these supposed widespread calls for mass murder?
Re:Twitter, Responsibility, and Accountability
by Kye on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @08:17AM
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They do it right out in public on their professional accounts to tens or hundreds of thousands of people and face no consequences. Calling for wiping out the southeast or "flyover states," then arguing with people in a way that makes it clear they really mean it. Why bother recording it?