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I'm sure she has a bunch of ideas that offend lots of people. Seems like a distraction. Yes, obviously Medium can do a bait-and-switch in which they attract pe
by peoplewindow 9y ago
I'm sure she has a bunch of ideas that offend lots of people. Seems like a distraction.
Yes, obviously Medium can do a bait-and-switch in which they attract people by claiming to value free speech and then abandoning those ideals after people have built up followers and PageRank using their service. They can do what they like.
However, the problem with picking sides like this, as Medium and Twitter are doing, is that it inevitably leads to gross and shameful hypocrisy.
Just based on a quick search, here are some shockingly hateful quotes that quite obviously violate their new policies, but which I don't believe for one second will lead to account bans:
https://medium.com/the-archipelago/men-get-on-board-with-misandry-4a3bc6c08e16 https://medium.com/the-archipelago/men-get-on-board-with-mis...
I drink from a coffee mug that says “Male Tears.” Female friends sign off emails to me with “ban men” or “kill all men.”
But let’s be honest: the more time you spend thinking about the patriarchy, the more you’re genuinely like UGH DUDES AMIRITE. Because the thing is, patriarchal culture actively trains men to be awful
I do think the concept of “manliness” needs to be taken out and shot.
It goes on and on like that. Clearly, anything Loomer has said about Muslims is matched by anything Jess Zimmerman has said about men.
- Consultant32452 9y agoI'm happy to get on board with you regarding pointing out the shameful hypocrisy. I'm less cynical about the apparent bait and switch, it seems to me that a lot of people were either naive about the realities of running an "open" platform, and/or are just caught up in this new age of hysteria. It seems like almost everyone has lost the concept of nuance.
- pvg 9y agoClearly, anything Loomer has said about Muslims is matched by anything Jess Zimmerman has said about men. No, because one of these things is deliberately ironic, as it says repeatedly throughout the thing you linked and quoted. How did you miss that detail?
- peoplewindow 9y agoI do not believe it's ironic. Yes, after stating repeatedly how much she hates men and manliness she says words to the effect of, "oh guyzzz I don't REALLY want to kill you all! Chill out!" and then goes back to hateful rhetoric. At any rate, that particular article is just one example I used to illustrate my point. Do you really believe Medium's moderation will be completely fair and politically unbiased, given their new policy? I would find it quite naive.