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It's certainly not a solved problem when the "Head of Site Integrity" has a history of anti-Trump tweets and called the President a Nazi. And that's just the h

It's certainly not a solved problem when the "Head of Site Integrity" has a history of anti-Trump tweets and called the President a Nazi. And that's just the head of the team. You can see the hard-left and pro-Antifa affiliations of the team outlined here: https://nickmonroe.blog/2019/11/28/dear-jack-twitter-is-politically-biased-heres-how/ https://nickmonroe.blog/2019/11/28/dear-jack-twitter-is-poli...

dboreham 6y ago
Any intelligent moral person is going to have "a history of anti-Trump tweets" if they're a Twitter user, which presumably someone who works for Twitter would be. Same logic goes for calling a person acting like Nazis a Nazi.
- jki275 6y ago
  Quite the flame bait there, you're claiming that half the country is not intelligent or moral.
  - lovich 6y ago
    If those follow a standard bell curve, wouldn't it make sense for half the country to be below the average on those aspects?
    - jki275 6y ago
      Assumes a LOT of facts not in evidence.
- gadders 6y ago
  I'm not sure that that is a reasonable point of view.
mgoetzke 6y ago
pro-Antifa means Pro Anti-Fascist which means to organise some movement against fascism. Would we really want people to be the inverse ? Meaning would we like them to be more fascist or accepting of fascism ? What exactly happened that AntiFa has become a group that people don't support ? Maybe I missed something there.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y ago
  Antifa is best known for their violent intimidation of political dissidents.
- gadders 6y ago
  I think it depends on how you define "Fascist". Is it people that actually go around attacking people of colour? Or is it just a synonym for anyone not a Bernie-Bro? I think people also have a problem with the violent methods employed by Antifa, such as beating up unarmed journalists.
  - Feuilles_Mortes 6y ago
    "Antifa" is highly decentralized, with as many autonomous groups as you can count affiliating themselves with the movement. This sort of sentiment sounds a bit like when out-of-touch news anchor refer to "the hacker known as 4chan". Many pacifists identify with "antifa". In general, provocative and non-defensive violence seems to be a strategy employed by a small minority of people involved in the anti-fascist movement. As is usually the case, the loudest voices are amplified, so the small amount of provocative violence is highlighted by the news media, as well as by the critics of the anti-fascist movement.
- chlodwig 6y ago
  And the Berlin Wall was the "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart." Who could be against a wall to protect against incursions of fascism? What are you a fascist yourself? I'm going to form a group called the "anti-baddies alliance." Who could be for "baddies"? And we are going to combat "baddies" "by any means necessary", including taking over the streets, punching people we decide are real bad baddies, agitating to get baddies de-platformed. Who could be against this? Would we want the inverse? Do we want people to be more bad or more accepting of baddies? (Also, while we say we are just "anti-baddies", we will also unofficially have a set of positive beliefs about how society should be radically restructured that almost all of us share to some degree, and that we continually agitate for. But if we get called out on this, we will deny it and just say, "hey, we're just anti-baddies, who is against being anti-baddie"?

dboreham 6y ago

Any intelligent moral person is going to have "a history of anti-Trump tweets" if they're a Twitter user, which presumably someone who works for Twitter would be. Same logic goes for calling a person acting like Nazis a Nazi.

jki275 6y ago
Quite the flame bait there, you're claiming that half the country is not intelligent or moral.
- lovich 6y ago
  If those follow a standard bell curve, wouldn't it make sense for half the country to be below the average on those aspects?
  - jki275 6y ago
    Assumes a LOT of facts not in evidence.
gadders 6y ago
I'm not sure that that is a reasonable point of view.

mgoetzke 6y ago

pro-Antifa means Pro Anti-Fascist which means to organise some movement against fascism. Would we really want people to be the inverse ? Meaning would we like them to be more fascist or accepting of fascism ? What exactly happened that AntiFa has become a group that people don't support ? Maybe I missed something there.

SpicyLemonZest 6y ago
Antifa is best known for their violent intimidation of political dissidents.
gadders 6y ago
I think it depends on how you define "Fascist". Is it people that actually go around attacking people of colour? Or is it just a synonym for anyone not a Bernie-Bro? I think people also have a problem with the violent methods employed by Antifa, such as beating up unarmed journalists.
- Feuilles_Mortes 6y ago
  "Antifa" is highly decentralized, with as many autonomous groups as you can count affiliating themselves with the movement. This sort of sentiment sounds a bit like when out-of-touch news anchor refer to "the hacker known as 4chan". Many pacifists identify with "antifa". In general, provocative and non-defensive violence seems to be a strategy employed by a small minority of people involved in the anti-fascist movement. As is usually the case, the loudest voices are amplified, so the small amount of provocative violence is highlighted by the news media, as well as by the critics of the anti-fascist movement.
chlodwig 6y ago
And the Berlin Wall was the "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart." Who could be against a wall to protect against incursions of fascism? What are you a fascist yourself? I'm going to form a group called the "anti-baddies alliance." Who could be for "baddies"? And we are going to combat "baddies" "by any means necessary", including taking over the streets, punching people we decide are real bad baddies, agitating to get baddies de-platformed. Who could be against this? Would we want the inverse? Do we want people to be more bad or more accepting of baddies? (Also, while we say we are just "anti-baddies", we will also unofficially have a set of positive beliefs about how society should be radically restructured that almost all of us share to some degree, and that we continually agitate for. But if we get called out on this, we will deny it and just say, "hey, we're just anti-baddies, who is against being anti-baddie"?