Posted on 04/17/2021 2:54:04 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
You need a strong stomach to be a Jew on Twitter, says Nicole Lampert
Stock image of a smartphone user Stock image of a smartphone user (Credit: Getty Images/ oatawa) You need a strong stomach to be a Jew on Twitter. For every genuinely warm feeling you get from someone wishing you Shabbat Shalom, or the fun you’ll have arguing over whether that round doughy thing is pronounced baygel or beigel, you’ll be exposed to ten messages of hate. They come from the far right and they come from the far left and all sorts of random places in between.
From the former you’ll get a constant diet of Holocaust denial. You’ll get anonymous accounts like a new one under the name Dunarote Brandon. His pinned post — the one everyone can see as soon as the look at his profile — says: “The Holocaust is pure propaganda. You have better luck demonstrating Enron as a proper biz model.” He writes: “The only person Jews hate more than Hitler is Jesus”, “Porn is very Jewish” and “Jews justify pedophilia [sic] through their culture/ religion.”
The far left tends to be a little more subtle. They often bait rather than bite. You have people such as Kerry-Anne Mendoza, editor of a hard-left blog, who has compared Israel to the Nazi regime, equated Brexit with the words stated on the gates of the Auschwitz death camp and called the Labour antisemitism crisis “a smear campaign against one of Britain’s finest MPs on behalf of Tories and anti-Palestinian racists”.
Their stock answers to every allegation of Labour antisemitism is to call Jews smear merchants and apartheid-loving, baby-killing whores who are just upset that Jeremy Corbyn couldn’t be bought with their shekels. Then you have black preacher Louis Farrakhan calling Jews termites, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei calling American Jews “filthy Zionist agents” and insisting on the destruction of Israel, adding: “The only remedy until the removal of the Zionist regime is firm, armed resistance.”
All of these people merrily tweet their hatred without, it seems, any sort of punishment at all — despite activists making daily complaints about their activity.
It took five days and an international walkout of Twitter from MPs and actors as well as thousands of anti-racism activists to stop British rapper Wiley’s blatant antisemitic tirades. That was in July and social media companies pledged to do better in combatting hatred online. Twitter said then: “Let us be clear: hateful conduct has absolutely no place on our service and we strongly condemn antisemitism. We are sorry we did not move faster and are continuing to assess the situation internally.”
Nine months later, how are they doing? Abysmally. All of the accounts I’ve mentioned above (apart from Wiley’s) remain up, spewing out their messages of hatred. Twitter remains a cesspit of antisemitism. And the social media organisation has just indefinitely suspended GnasherJew, one of the biggest accounts on Twitter fighting antisemitism, exposing Jew hate on the site.
Twitter’s explanation is odd, to say the least. It tells me that “the account referenced was permanently suspended for violating the Twitter Rules on ban evasion”.
Ban evasion is when the person behind a banned account sets up a new account under a different name. But GnasherJew, responsible for exposing scores of antisemites and Holocaust deniers, has never done that. The account, run by four people, was banned two years ago for using a yellow Star of David because it had “violated Twitter rules by use of hateful imagery”. But after a public campaign the account, which has nearly 17,000 followers, returned to continue exposing antisemites. The yellow star was modified.
But, nearly two weeks ago it suddenly disappeared again with no warning. What is more, two other accounts that chose to brandish the GnasherJew sign, were suspended several days later. Again, I was told this was because the accounts had been suspended for ban evasion. It feels Kafkaesque. It also feels malign and blatantly unjust.
This example of the incredible double standards that social media companies get away with doesn’t, of course, just affect Jews. In the last few months there has been a concerted effort by the footballing community to hold Twitter account for the racism many of its players, in particular black ones, receive.
The social media company said in February, as it did in July, that it was determined to crack down on racism on its site. “Racist behaviour, abuse and harassment have absolutely no place on our service,” said a Twitter spokesman. “We want to reiterate — there is no room for racist abuse on Twitter.”
But sadly, that is simply not true.
Being Jewish and being on Twitter can sometimes feel like swimming through rooms full of racist abuse.
And instead of punishing the perpetrators, Twitter, incredibly, malignly, has banned the people who pointed it out.
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Hitler’s Nazi Germany was exactly what he wanted it to be.
It is what it is by design.
If there is that such hate, why are there any jews at all on twit?
Seems to me that would be self-limiting...
I am 77 years old. From the time as a child when I could understand, I heard adults spewing anti-Jewish rhetoric. From then until now, I never understood why people repeat the anti-Jewish junk and even today, I do not understand. I know that Adolf Hitler used it as a rallying point for his Nazi culture, but why are people still repeating it today? Irish, English, Spanish, Polish, Swiss, etc., these are all the same as Jewish people. I just do not understand!!!
It’s because Jews are a convenient and time tested “straw man”.
They are that because, by and large, they go along to get along, and do not fight back much. They try to stay below the radar. Percentage wise they do not have the numbers of blacks or Hispanics, which also makes them a better target.
While this is my opinion, and not prove-able, I do not believe that this piece is correct in stating that Jew hate on the right is equal to Jew hate on the left.
Slippery slope here. She is correct in that the examples cited are indeed ignorant hate speech against Jewish people. But forcing twitter to ban hate speech leads them to banning any notion of islamic terrorism as hate speech or labeling covid the Chinese virus. Where does it end?
Isn’t that how the notion of banning speech as “untrue” or unproven” enables twitter to mute conservative speech and shut out valid newspaper articles like the Post story on Hunter Biden to support Joe in the presidential election.
Socialism encourages antisemitism and anti religion. There’s little difference between socialism, fascism, nazism, and other forms of tyranny. They have no tolerance for any one or group that thinks differently.
Why? Who knows. Easier to blame someone else for one’s troubles I guess. But it started long before Hitler, long before anybody here was even a thought.
This goes to why I left Twitter and seriously considering getting out of FB. The lack of consistency when it comes to what “hate speech” is. One of the ONLY times I’ve agreed with the ADL was when fmr Nat’l Director Abe Foxman called the censoring of hate speech the worst thing to do. The best way to deal with it is to CHALLENGE it with MORE SPEECH.
Jack Dorsey is a demented neo-Nazi pig. Once you understand that, the reason why jew haters are allowed on Twitter becomes apparent.
Where is it documented?
I doubt there is a lot of far right. NAZIs are left wing socialists, not conservative right.
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Where is what documented?
I never had a Twitter account, and never will. I liken Twitter, with its demented idiot Dorsey as its head, to a toilet full of the products of diarrhea. It stinks and disgusts. Those belonging to it still are in effect voting for its gross abuses.
How do you know this if you never had an account?
I can read. I can read news accounts of what vicious Twitters have been posted and what disgusting measures Dorsey has taken. I don’t have to personally experience it to know it’s something not to have in my life.
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