Milo Yiannopoulos banned from Twitter.

[Imperializt Russia]

If the Christian alt-right ever managed to seize complete power in the United States and started overturning LGBT rights by the truckload Yiannopoulous would be the figurehead overseer declaring that nothing is wrong while LGBTs are hauled off to Japanese internment camps repurposed for gay conversion therapy.

Hey! Earth to you! 2004 was 12 years ago!

I thought liberals stopped cowering in fear at the thought of the US becoming a Christian theocracy many years ago. If you really believe such delusions, I wonder how you make it through life with such paranoia.

Did you not fucking see the GOP field this year?

[New Werpland]

Someone hasn't looked at Mike Pence's record, methinks.

And what power would he have to do any of that as vice-president?

America really couldn't give two shits about gay people. We're more focused on other things, like building the great, beautiful wall.

Let's make it twenty feet tall and a circle, run electricity through it, and put violent xenophobes and racists in it.

[Gauthier]

GOP Platform Subcommittee Passes Resolution Calling for Bible to Be Taught as American History

Are there sources here that aren't left-wing echo chambers or Twitter?

GOP approves pro-Bible, anti-transgender stances in party platform

Sorry if the Dallas Morning News is a left-wing echo chamber.

[Shofercia]

Found something I agree with: https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/twit ... 08204.html

Michelle Ferrier, an associate dean at Ohio University’s Scripps College of Communication and founder of the anti-harassment project TrollBusters, wrote in an e-mail: “We see this type of hate happening all the time on Twitter, yet Twitter only responds swiftly when it’s a public figure who is in harm’s way.”

There was no clear set rule to ban Milo, AFAIK. If there is, kudos to Twitter. However, there were probably clear cut instances, considering Twitter's audience size, when the rules were violated and the offenders were not banned. This again shows the double-standard between the haves and the have-nots. If Twitter wants to stand by Milo's ban, which is their right, they should clearly explain the ban and, more importantly, enforce that against those who harass non celebrities from all sides of the spectrum. Is it Twitter or twitland?

[Liriena]

Someone hasn't looked at Mike Pence's record, methinks.

And what power would he have to do any of that as vice-president?

America really couldn't give two shits about gay people. We're more focused on other things, like building the great, beautiful wall.

Tell that to the GOP's platform, and the GOP's continued attempts to pass legislation that enables anti-LGBT+ discrimination.

[Alvecia]

GOP Platform Subcommittee Passes Resolution Calling for Bible to Be Taught as American History

Are there sources here that aren't left-wing echo chambers or Twitter?

I'm pretty sure this is the official document

A good
understanding of the Bible
being indispensable for the
development of an educated
citizenry, we encourage state
legislatures to offer the Bible
in a literature curriculum as
an elective in America’s high
schools.

Edit: Don't think that pdf will work cause of the square brackets, edited to make it the preceding page.

[Gauthier]

Someone hasn't looked at Mike Pence's record, methinks.

And what power would he have to do any of that as vice-president?

America really couldn't give two shits about gay people. We're more focused on other things, like building the great, beautiful wall.

Given that Trump wanted John Kasich to be his VP in exchange for making him Dick Cheney 2.0 I'm sure Pence would have PLENTY of power to do so.

[Gauthier]

Found something I agree with: https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/twit ... 08204.html

Michelle Ferrier, an associate dean at Ohio University’s Scripps College of Communication and founder of the anti-harassment project TrollBusters, wrote in an e-mail: “We see this type of hate happening all the time on Twitter, yet Twitter only responds swiftly when it’s a public figure who is in harm’s way.”

There was no clear set rule to ban Milo, AFAIK. If there is, kudos to Twitter. However, there were probably clear cut instances, considering Twitter's audience size, when the rules were violated and the offenders were not banned. This again shows the double-standard between the haves and the have-nots. If Twitter wants to stand by Milo's ban, which is their right, they should clearly explain the ban and, more importantly, enforce that against those who harass non celebrities from all sides of the spectrum. Is it Twitter or twitland?

And yet Donald Trump hasn't had his account deleted despite so many people wanting it.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

Are there sources here that aren't left-wing echo chambers or Twitter?

GOP approves pro-Bible, anti-transgender stances in party platform

Sorry if the Dallas Morning News is a left-wing echo chamber.

The Dallas Morning News his hardly a left-wing echo chamber.

[Yorkers]

Are you that naive to think that insulting people for their appearance did not exist before the alt. right?

No. But I do believe that the alt-right normalized verbal abuse in political discourse, beyond the realm of mere internet banter.

Prove it.

Aren't leftists the ones who come up incredibly sophomoric insults about people?

"hurr his real name is Drumpf that proves him wrong about everything and Drumpf sounds like a fart joke ahaha im so clever"

First of all, #notallleftists

Second of all, bad tu quoque, since you had people flinging all manner of insults at Democratic, liberal and leftist figures long before Donald J. Trump proclaimed himself King in the Iron Throne. Starting with all the racism against President Obama, which Trump helped encourage and perpetuate with his birther nonsense.

Well isn't that a shame people were mean to Obama? It's not like any leftists and/or liberal figures have ever...

>thrown blood at people
>Attacked Bush's daughters
>Made fun of several right-wing people for their appearance
>Actively mocked poor white people for being ignorant yokels
>Adding on to that, literally every attack against suburban and Middle America, essentially blaming ordinary people for the country's problems
>Accused white people of holding some god-like privilege (basically just making up bullshit) so that they can be attacked as evil, racist overlords who deserve whats coming to them

But yeah, it's the right-wingers who've contributed to the "politics of division and fear".

[Alvecia]

Because all they need to do is put "Are you a supporter of ISIS? Yes/No" on the sign up form and problem solved.
Come on, you should know better than that.

Scathing, salty sarcasm aside, all they have to do is better moderate their servers.

That won't stop the material circulating, only slow it.
Besides, it's not like Twitter's inconsistent and infrequent moderation of their own rules is news. People have been calling for them to address harassment for ages.

[Khadgar]

No. But I do believe that the alt-right normalized verbal abuse in political discourse, beyond the realm of mere internet banter.

Prove it.

First of all, #notallleftists

Second of all, bad tu quoque, since you had people flinging all manner of insults at Democratic, liberal and leftist figures long before Donald J. Trump proclaimed himself King in the Iron Throne. Starting with all the racism against President Obama, which Trump helped encourage and perpetuate with his birther nonsense.

Well isn't that a shame people were mean to Obama? It's not like any leftists and/or liberal figures have ever...

>thrown blood at people
>Attacked Bush's daughters
>Made fun of several right-wing people for their appearance
>Actively mocked poor white people for being ignorant yokels
>Adding on to that, literally every attack against suburban and Middle America, essentially blaming ordinary people for the country's problems
>Accused white people of holding some god-like privilege (basically just making up bullshit) so that they can be attacked as evil, racist overlords who deserve whats coming to them

But yeah, it's the right-wingers who've contributed to the "politics of division and fear".

Just keep telling yourself, "Everything is the left winger's fault".

[Yorkers]

And what power would he have to do any of that as vice-president?

America really couldn't give two shits about gay people. We're more focused on other things, like building the great, beautiful wall.

Let's make it twenty feet tall and a circle, run electricity through it, and put violent xenophobes and racists in it.

Or put illegal immigrants in it.

I can also call for herding people into camps as well : ^ )

[Liriena]

They banned loads of ISIS members.....

Certainly; but yet somehow more and more ISIS material keeps getting circulated on their platform.

Is that material circulated by accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers, and sent to other accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers?

[Midwestern Commonwealth]

Yes, businesses should have to right to deny service for whatever they want. Religion or not. They just have to deal with the consequences of the customer going to another business that will serve them. To a small business like a small town bakery, that's valuable revenue lost. However, if the businesses are willing to take the profit hit, then they should be allowed to.

And me, alt-right? Haha that's funny. I don't think about Jews trying to control everything, etc. While I do believe that there are some rather shady, powerful individuals who are working together to erase national sovereignty and racial identity for all people, I'm not a loon. I guess you could call me an advocate for diversity (haha). I don't want our world to be a bray blob without separate identities. Racial, ideological, and national identities help make life worth living for. I wouldn't want a world with all white people, or all black people. I wouldn't a world with all mixed people, etc. I like my freedom, I like my race, I like other races, I like my nation, just the way it is.

[Yumyumsuppertime]

What was she replying to?

Don't know.

Why do you think that Milo was banned for racism, when we've repeatedly shown that he was banned for participating in a massive trolling campaign against Leslie Jones?

I don't think he was banned for racism. The person I replied to said that Milo was "bigoted and hateful" so I posted the picture showing, oddly enough, bigotry and hate from the "victim" of this trolling campaign.

The fact that she left Twitter is great, because it means that you can't go around posting this kind of crap on the internet and not get called out for it or be the subject of the same kind of crap you post.

Moral of the story: play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Without knowing the context of what she was replying to, you can't say whether this was truly bigoted or not. Considering the nature of her comedy, this looks like out of context cherrypicking to make her look bad, but I'm willing to change my mind once actual context for the quotes is provided. It seems an easy thing to do, and the fact that the original comments and/or questions aren't there makes me suspicious.

[Yorkers]

Prove it.



Well isn't that a shame people were mean to Obama? It's not like any leftists and/or liberal figures have ever...

>thrown blood at people
>Attacked Bush's daughters
>Made fun of several right-wing people for their appearance
>Actively mocked poor white people for being ignorant yokels
>Adding on to that, literally every attack against suburban and Middle America, essentially blaming ordinary people for the country's problems
>Accused white people of holding some god-like privilege (basically just making up bullshit) so that they can be attacked as evil, racist overlords who deserve whats coming to them

But yeah, it's the right-wingers who've contributed to the "politics of division and fear".

Just keep telling yourself, "Everything is the left winger's fault".

Anymore than certain people here cower in fear of the non-existent alt. right bogeyman.

[Lupolska]

Let's make it twenty feet tall and a circle, run electricity through it, and put violent xenophobes and racists in it.

Or put illegal immigrants in it.

I can also call for herding people into camps as well : ^ )

wew lad

inb4 banned and vanned

[Katganistan]

And was she ejected by campus security? They certainly had the right.

Yeah, she was being disruptive, just like our friend Milo.

Then.... they both were shown that private companies/concerns can, in fact, disinvite you if you act like a douche?

Where is the problem?

[Yorkers]

Don't know.



I don't think he was banned for racism. The person I replied to said that Milo was "bigoted and hateful" so I posted the picture showing, oddly enough, bigotry and hate from the "victim" of this trolling campaign.

The fact that she left Twitter is great, because it means that you can't go around posting this kind of crap on the internet and not get called out for it or be the subject of the same kind of crap you post.

Moral of the story: play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Without knowing the context of what she was replying to, you can't say whether this was truly bigoted or not. Considering the nature of her comedy, this looks like out of context cherrypicking to make her look bad, but I'm willing to change my mind once actual context for the quotes is provided. It seems an easy thing to do, and the fact that the original comments and/or questions aren't there makes me suspicious.

"Comedy"

Let's not be generous here.

[Liriena]

No. But I do believe that the alt-right normalized verbal abuse in political discourse, beyond the realm of mere internet banter.

Prove it.

How? What would you consider reliable evidence?

First of all, #notallleftists

Second of all, bad tu quoque, since you had people flinging all manner of insults at Democratic, liberal and leftist figures long before Donald J. Trump proclaimed himself King in the Iron Throne. Starting with all the racism against President Obama, which Trump helped encourage and perpetuate with his birther nonsense.

Well isn't that a shame people were mean to Obama? It's not like any leftists and/or liberal figures have ever...

>thrown blood at people
>Attacked Bush's daughters
>Made fun of several right-wing people for their appearance
>Actively mocked poor white people for being ignorant yokels
>Adding on to that, literally every attack against suburban and Middle America, essentially blaming ordinary people for the country's problems
>Accused white people of holding some god-like privilege (basically just making up bullshit) so that they can be attacked as evil, racist overlords who deserve whats coming to them

But yeah, it's the right-wingers who've contributed to the "politics of division and fear".

Again, bad tu quoque.

[Yorkers]

Prove it.

How? What would you consider reliable evidence?

At the very least explain, how in your opinion, the alt right has normalized verbal abuse.

[Liriena]

Someone hasn't looked at Mike Pence's record, methinks.

And what power would he have to do any of that as vice-president?

He'd be one heartbeat away from the presidency, for one. And presiding the Senate.

[Yorkers]

And what power would he have to do any of that as vice-president?

He'd be one heartbeat away from the presidency, for one. And presiding the Senate.

I'll concede here due to the likelihood of Trump getting assassinated.

[Katganistan]

You suspect correctly. It's almost as if that sort of this is spelled out in our TOS, FAQ and The One Stop Rules Shop.

And this news incident is like people on NSG demanding that a DoS be reinstated because Freedom of Speech.

Historically, how's that worked out?