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What are some examples of their blazenly liberal bias? From what I've seen they only tend to kick people off the platform who have been saying exceedingly unsav

What are some examples of their blazenly liberal bias? From what I've seen they only tend to kick people off the platform who have been saying exceedingly unsavoury things ... Katie Hopkins opining about needing a "Final Solution" is just one example.

Veelox 7y ago
> What are some examples of their blazenly liberal bias? I think looking up why #OkDude was trending in the last few days would give you one example.
- philjohn 7y ago
  I never call women "dude" period, because "dude" is literally a moniker applied to men, that's its etymology. Deliberately misgendering someone goes beyond just tacky and into offensive. That's not a liberal thing, that's just a human decency thing. He was unbanned anyway. The problem is, a lot of the people who seem to take issue with someone choosing to be transgender seem to extract perverse glee from tormenting them deliberately.
  - ev0lv 7y ago
    >>Deliberately misgendering someone goes beyond just tacky and into offensive. Strong disagree. You need to consider what is actually offensive, and when labeling it so is simply hyperbole. Boy who cried wolf.
    - philjohn 7y ago
      You're free to disagree, but you're wrong. Gender identity and how someone refers to themselves is a core part of their identity. Deliberately (as in, going out of your way, not as a mistake, but as a conscious act) is indeed offensive. And moreover there's zero need for it, unless your purpose is to cause offense.
tic_tac 7y ago
"Exceedingly unsavory" as determined by whom? People have been kicked off for far vaguer reasons than openly talking about a "final solution". Many conservative e-personalities have been kicked off for ambiguous and yet unexplained violations, whether it is a specific thing they say or a general perception about their personalities or affiliations. Official policies are strongly influenced by prevailing Leftist dogma as well. Questioning whether gender dysphoria (transgenderism) can be considered mental illness would be considered ban worthy on Twitter, in spite of evidence that many cases of transgenderism are either an example of herd following or some sort of dysphoric personally disorder.
heartbeats 7y ago
What about Infowars? They're kooks, sure, but I can't recall them saying anything "exceedingly unsavoury".
Bendingo 7y ago
#LearnToCode comes to mind

Veelox 7y ago

> What are some examples of their blazenly liberal bias? I think looking up why #OkDude was trending in the last few days would give you one example.

philjohn 7y ago
I never call women "dude" period, because "dude" is literally a moniker applied to men, that's its etymology. Deliberately misgendering someone goes beyond just tacky and into offensive. That's not a liberal thing, that's just a human decency thing. He was unbanned anyway. The problem is, a lot of the people who seem to take issue with someone choosing to be transgender seem to extract perverse glee from tormenting them deliberately.
- ev0lv 7y ago
  >>Deliberately misgendering someone goes beyond just tacky and into offensive. Strong disagree. You need to consider what is actually offensive, and when labeling it so is simply hyperbole. Boy who cried wolf.
  - philjohn 7y ago
    You're free to disagree, but you're wrong. Gender identity and how someone refers to themselves is a core part of their identity. Deliberately (as in, going out of your way, not as a mistake, but as a conscious act) is indeed offensive. And moreover there's zero need for it, unless your purpose is to cause offense.

tic_tac 7y ago

"Exceedingly unsavory" as determined by whom? People have been kicked off for far vaguer reasons than openly talking about a "final solution". Many conservative e-personalities have been kicked off for ambiguous and yet unexplained violations, whether it is a specific thing they say or a general perception about their personalities or affiliations. Official policies are strongly influenced by prevailing Leftist dogma as well. Questioning whether gender dysphoria (transgenderism) can be considered mental illness would be considered ban worthy on Twitter, in spite of evidence that many cases of transgenderism are either an example of herd following or some sort of dysphoric personally disorder.

heartbeats 7y ago

What about Infowars? They're kooks, sure, but I can't recall them saying anything "exceedingly unsavoury".

Bendingo 7y ago

#LearnToCode comes to mind