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Oh please. Link to where Twitter banned someone for being right wing. Hate speech doesn't count.
by wesleywt 4y ago
Oh please. Link to where Twitter banned someone for being right wing. Hate speech doesn't count.
- simpleblend 4y agoIt's very convenient that one side of the asile is always in a position to define what hate speech is. Neat trick, but it doesn't work anymore.
- roflyear 4y agoNot a trick, but yeah saying we should harm certain groups of people is hate speech.
- simpleblend 4y agoWho is saying that people should be harmed? Seriously. Whoever you have in mind, if they're actually advocating violence against people then I'm in agreement with you. That's not cool and they shouldn't be doing that. Are you referring to calling a trans person by their biological sex?
- Apocryphon 4y agoWhy does your mind instinctively go to that example?
- simpleblend 4y agoBecause leftists often use that as an example of hate speech.
- jacquesm 4y agoAnd rightly so.
- ciler 4y agoDepends on the context. People have been suspended from Twitter from saying things like "transwomen are actually men so stop letting them compete in women's sports, it's not safe or fair for actual women", which isn't hate speech, doesn't target an individual, and is a legitimate political opinion, so in theory should be fine. Yet bans are handed out anyway.
- skinnymuch 4y agoI’m not familiar with the lightness with which Twitter bans conservatives. Could you provide an example close to the example you gave? Or will any example be even more bigoted?
- roflyear 4y agoI don't believe that. I know several conservatives who posted that shit all the time and didn't get banned.
- simpleblend 4y agoSo Twitter needs to bad them all for you to be convinced?
- roflyear 4y agoNo. I just don't believe there is a "ban this speech" b/c in my experience that didn't happen.
- simpleblend 4y agoStating facts is not hate speech -- especially if you're trying to force society to go along with your unreality for political reasons.
- roflyear 4y agoStating facts can be hate speech. For example, if someone said "I was just attacked on my way home" and someone said "you're black" in response, yeah. Facts. Hate speech. See? :)
- snowwrestler 4y agoWhen a doctor is speaking with a trans person about their body, it's an appropriate time to speak about their biological sex. That is certainly not hate speech. When a stranger is yelling at a trans person about their biological sex, it's done to inflict emotional harm on the trans person. They transitioned away from that gender to reduce harm (that is the definition of a trans person), and the stranger is intentionally trying to bring that harm back. Imagine shouting at a woman about her "biological breast size" because she is wearing a push-up bra, or had surgery to enlarge or reduce her breast size. Would that seem like a normal, harm-free way to interact with another person you don't know? Obviously not.
- Shared404 4y agoPutting aside transphobic nonsense > Who is saying that people should be harmed? The rights actions speak so loud no one can hear their words. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/briefing/right-wing-mass-shootings.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/briefing/right-wing-mass-... https://www.businessinsider.com/right-wing-extremists-kill-329-since-1994-antifa-killed-none-2020-7?op=1 https://www.businessinsider.com/right-wing-extremists-kill-3... https://www.salon.com/2021/06/25/filling-the-trump-void-right-wing-medias-calls-for-violence-grow-louder/ https://www.salon.com/2021/06/25/filling-the-trump-void-righ...
- roflyear 4y agoPeople are actually advocating violence against people, and they have gotten banned for it.
- kodyo 4y agoJoking about political figures isn't hate speech.
- Shared404 4y agoJust because it's about a political figure doesn't make something not hate speech. If someone drops an n-word at a state rep, does it become not hate speech? The answer is (obviously) that hate speech is still hate speech.
- roflyear 4y agoWho said it was?
- Shared404 4y agoThey're referring to a Babylon Bee article where they misgender a trans public figure repeatedly. It's the tweet that got the Bee suspended from twitter because they refused to delete it.
- bennies4grojnd 4y agoIt was a satire on USA Today naming Levine as one of their Women Of The Year. This isn't hate speech, just social commentary on organizations giving awards and accolades reserved for women to men who want to be women.
- roflyear 4y agoThe right is incredibly fucked up today. See this article: https://unherd.com/thepost/was-the-fake-boobs-teacher-a-hoax/ https://unherd.com/thepost/was-the-fake-boobs-teacher-a-hoax...
- bennies4grojnd 4y agoSeems highly unlikely this is a satirical protest. More probably it's just a man bringing his fetish to work and expecting everyone to comply, as is the zeitgeist of today.
- biohacker85 4y agoYou have to give credit to whomever came up with it, its a cheap but effective linguistic kill shot. No doubt it was engineered to be divisive, and whomever is wielding it is unlikely to be reasoned with.
- simpleblend 4y agoExactly
- transcriptase 4y agoHere you go: https://www.dhillonlaw.com/lawsuits/meghan-murphy-twitter/ https://www.dhillonlaw.com/lawsuits/meghan-murphy-twitter/
- Shared404 4y agoReferring to a trans person by the wrong gender repeatedly is a good example of hate speech. It reminds of an old joke: Conservative: "I keep getting banned for my views" Rando: "Oh, small government?" C: "No, not that one" R: "Oh, so fiscal responsibility?" C: "Not that either" R: "So which ones?" C: "Oh, uh... You know."
- Khaine 4y agoNo it’s not. Referring to a trans person by the wrong pronouns repeatedly is just rude. It isn’t hate speech That’s just watering down what hate speech is.
- Shared404 4y agoSpeech designed to A) Harm the target, who has gone out of their way to avoid that harm already (by transitioning/changing pronouns) B) Dehumanize the target in the eyes of others (this person doesn't matter, their wishes are to be entirely disrespected) seems like a reasonable candidate for hate speech to me.
- bennies4grojnd 4y agoPointing out that a man who desires to be a woman is still really a man, is an act of speech that neither causes him harm nor dehumanizes him. It's very silly to claim that this is some type of hate.
- Shared404 4y agoAww, look at you making a throwaway to respond to my comments, it's cute :3 E: Removed the troll feeding bits.