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A worse Twitter? The amount of blatant racism, bigotry, and calls for violence have exploded in the past couple of months. These people all buy blue checks so t

A worse Twitter? The amount of blatant racism, bigotry, and calls for violence have exploded in the past couple of months. These people all buy blue checks so they get amplified. It's insane. My bluesky invite cannot come soon enough.

nonameking2026 3y ago
I haven’t seen this… https://youtu.be/g1na0OFm89k https://youtu.be/g1na0OFm89k
0xy 3y ago
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- oneeyedpigeon 3y ago
  > I presume you would call IQ statistics "racism" Putting aside the value of IQ figures, no, the figures themselves are not racist. How someone uses them, of course, can be.
  - 0xy 3y ago
    Given IQ statistics throw a pretty big spanner in the works of white supremacists by showing them that Ashkenazi Jews are the top of the average list, it's pretty hard to see how they're racist.
    - oneeyedpigeon 3y ago
      I'm glad you agree!
- afguoibiobio 3y ago
  >Last time Jack Dorsey was in charge of Twitter, they did essentially nothing about CSAM. I am going to assume you have no evidence Twitter's new management is more active in combating child porn. You can, I'm sure, find evidence of them claiming they're taking a stand, but what they've actually done is gut the safety and moderation teams. The rise of hateful speech, on the other hand, is quite clear. We have seen a massive, sustained uptick in racist posts since the site was taken over. We see an increase in accounts associated with terrorists organizations like ISIS, many of them "verified" and impersonating famous people. We have seen an increase in postings from QAnon followers, many with verified accounts. We have seen and measured increases in violent speech across the board. I would classify all these things as "actual terrible stuff", as would any decent person. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/technology/twitter-hate-speech.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/technology/twitter-hate-s... Twitter is every bit as censored as it ever has been. It regularly bans people for criticizing Twitter policy; blocks, throttles, and downranks competitors; downranks left-wing organizations and news sources; and (pathetically) requires Felon's posts to always be ranked highly. Twitter is still censored, just by a manchild dictator rather than the hard work of fallible people. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/elon-musk-twitter-free-speech-matt-taibbi-substack/673698/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/elon-musk-... >I presume you would call IQ statistics "racism" Not necessarily, but most likely. I have never met a person in the wild who wanted to talk about IQ statistics without using them as a pseudo-scientific fig leaf to justify genocide. I've been on the Internet; I've played this game. And, let me guess, next you'll say there's no way such you're racist because these statistics show Asian and Jewish people have higher IQ than white people.
  - sidibe 3y ago
    > And, let me guess, next you'll say there's no way such you're racist because these statistics show Asian and Jewish people have higher IQ than white people. I hope you didn't cheat and look at the sibling comment :P, but indeed it is predictable.
    - afguoibiobio 3y ago
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  - 0xy 3y ago
    >terrorists organizations like ISIS, many of them "verified" How terrible. Got a link to a single ISIS verified account? >downranks left-wing organizations Source? >IQ statistics without using them as a pseudo-scientific fig leaf to justify genocide I haven't seen a single IQ researcher who uses their research to advocate genocide. Got any links for proof?
    - afguoibiobio 3y ago
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nonameking2026 3y ago

I haven’t seen this… https://youtu.be/g1na0OFm89k https://youtu.be/g1na0OFm89k

0xy 3y ago

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oneeyedpigeon 3y ago
> I presume you would call IQ statistics "racism" Putting aside the value of IQ figures, no, the figures themselves are not racist. How someone uses them, of course, can be.
- 0xy 3y ago
  Given IQ statistics throw a pretty big spanner in the works of white supremacists by showing them that Ashkenazi Jews are the top of the average list, it's pretty hard to see how they're racist.
  - oneeyedpigeon 3y ago
    I'm glad you agree!
afguoibiobio 3y ago
>Last time Jack Dorsey was in charge of Twitter, they did essentially nothing about CSAM. I am going to assume you have no evidence Twitter's new management is more active in combating child porn. You can, I'm sure, find evidence of them claiming they're taking a stand, but what they've actually done is gut the safety and moderation teams. The rise of hateful speech, on the other hand, is quite clear. We have seen a massive, sustained uptick in racist posts since the site was taken over. We see an increase in accounts associated with terrorists organizations like ISIS, many of them "verified" and impersonating famous people. We have seen an increase in postings from QAnon followers, many with verified accounts. We have seen and measured increases in violent speech across the board. I would classify all these things as "actual terrible stuff", as would any decent person. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/technology/twitter-hate-speech.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/technology/twitter-hate-s... Twitter is every bit as censored as it ever has been. It regularly bans people for criticizing Twitter policy; blocks, throttles, and downranks competitors; downranks left-wing organizations and news sources; and (pathetically) requires Felon's posts to always be ranked highly. Twitter is still censored, just by a manchild dictator rather than the hard work of fallible people. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/elon-musk-twitter-free-speech-matt-taibbi-substack/673698/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/elon-musk-... >I presume you would call IQ statistics "racism" Not necessarily, but most likely. I have never met a person in the wild who wanted to talk about IQ statistics without using them as a pseudo-scientific fig leaf to justify genocide. I've been on the Internet; I've played this game. And, let me guess, next you'll say there's no way such you're racist because these statistics show Asian and Jewish people have higher IQ than white people.
- sidibe 3y ago
  > And, let me guess, next you'll say there's no way such you're racist because these statistics show Asian and Jewish people have higher IQ than white people. I hope you didn't cheat and look at the sibling comment :P, but indeed it is predictable.
  - afguoibiobio 3y ago
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- 0xy 3y ago
  >terrorists organizations like ISIS, many of them "verified" How terrible. Got a link to a single ISIS verified account? >downranks left-wing organizations Source? >IQ statistics without using them as a pseudo-scientific fig leaf to justify genocide I haven't seen a single IQ researcher who uses their research to advocate genocide. Got any links for proof?
  - afguoibiobio 3y ago
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