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> This is a person that is typically against the idea of free speech and for censorship/deplatforming/cancel culture as a progressive activist, so there’s a bit

> This is a person that is typically against the idea of free speech and for censorship/deplatforming/cancel culture as a progressive activist, so there’s a bit of irony/hypocrisy here. It is only ironic if what you say here is actually true about this particular person. There is no need to stereotype.

throwawaysea 6y ago
There’s lots of evidence of this from just her Twitter feed: https://mobile.twitter.com/alimcollins https://mobile.twitter.com/alimcollins Here’s a Michael Moore tweet cheering the lockdown of Trump’s Twitter account, which she retweeted: https://mobile.twitter.com/MMFlint/status/1346985006825172995 https://mobile.twitter.com/MMFlint/status/134698500682517299... A couple weeks later she retweeted this complaint about someone she’s politically aligned with being banned: https://mobile.twitter.com/shanavwhite/status/1353702013616467984 https://mobile.twitter.com/shanavwhite/status/13537020136164... She retweeted a call to deplatform Fox News from ads networks: https://mobile.twitter.com/designationsix/status/1349488355340378112 https://mobile.twitter.com/designationsix/status/13494883553... She was also a key proponent of renaming 44 schools in SF, including removing the names of historical figures who she sought to cancel, such as Lincoln, Washington, and Jefferson: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/san-francisco-school-renaming-effort-stalls-after-colliding-another-battle-n1258649 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/san-francisco-school-re... But leaving all this evidence aside, it’s pretty clear that the progressive movement and its adherents are generally pro-censorship/deplatforming and anti-free speech. Just last week we saw progressive politicians summon tech CEOs to pressure them into increasing their censorship regime: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-in-a-five-hour-hearing-demands https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-in-a-five-hour-hea...

throwawaysea 6y ago

There’s lots of evidence of this from just her Twitter feed: https://mobile.twitter.com/alimcollins https://mobile.twitter.com/alimcollins Here’s a Michael Moore tweet cheering the lockdown of Trump’s Twitter account, which she retweeted: https://mobile.twitter.com/MMFlint/status/1346985006825172995 https://mobile.twitter.com/MMFlint/status/134698500682517299... A couple weeks later she retweeted this complaint about someone she’s politically aligned with being banned: https://mobile.twitter.com/shanavwhite/status/1353702013616467984 https://mobile.twitter.com/shanavwhite/status/13537020136164... She retweeted a call to deplatform Fox News from ads networks: https://mobile.twitter.com/designationsix/status/1349488355340378112 https://mobile.twitter.com/designationsix/status/13494883553... She was also a key proponent of renaming 44 schools in SF, including removing the names of historical figures who she sought to cancel, such as Lincoln, Washington, and Jefferson: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/san-francisco-school-renaming-effort-stalls-after-colliding-another-battle-n1258649 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/san-francisco-school-re... But leaving all this evidence aside, it’s pretty clear that the progressive movement and its adherents are generally pro-censorship/deplatforming and anti-free speech. Just last week we saw progressive politicians summon tech CEOs to pressure them into increasing their censorship regime: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-in-a-five-hour-hearing-demands https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-in-a-five-hour-hea...