48 Hour Boycott

Twitter - where you go to be snarky at people you've never met to make yourself feel good.

I tried it briefly. Boycotted it since.
 
It was interesting to see Twitter’s take on this - if this had been the other way round and a Jewish person (basically someone who’s white to most people) had made similar comments and threats to someone black on Twitter he would have been banned straight away.

As it was they didn’t really have a problem with someone making anti-Semitic comments as it was basically viewed as it didn’t break their rules about abuse aimed at white people.

I've not seen the original comments he made but were they as bad as stating that (only) black lives matter?

On the blm website it states

Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy

Replace white with jewish and that would be anti semitic right? so whynis it not anti white?
 
Replace white with jewish and that would be anti semitic right? so whynis it not anti white?

It's anti white supremacy, you know what that is right? Not anti white people. Awful straw man argument.

If you didn't know, here is the definition from Wiki.

White supremacy or white supremacism is the racist belief that white people are superior to people of other races and therefore should be dominant over them. White supremacy has roots in the now-discredited doctrine of scientific racism and often relies on pseudoscientific arguments. Like most similar movements such as neo-Nazism, white supremacists typically oppose members of other races as well as Jews.

Do you have a problem with getting rid of this?

Twitter is like the bar in star wars a new hope but everyone in it thinks they are on the road to sainthood.

Not so different to this forum at times then.
 
It's a massive deal to attention whores because 'likes' and 'followers' and 'sheep'. Hard to give that up for 48 hours.

For me and you it's LOL. I've boycotted them since inception as I've never, nor will ever, have an account.
last time didn't a bunch of the attention seekers post photos of pure black on twitter instead of actually not using it :rolleyes:

you know when you look at the younger generations.

you do know what caused them to be like they are right?

people grew up with programmes like big brother, the x factor, towie, whatever that dating show is on an island etc and all the other reality tv shows where they show the less IQ you have the more famous you can become..

I'm convinced we had a few generations utterly shaped and destroyed by reality TV.
peoples role models are basically talentless hacks who can barely string a sentence together, nothing matters but how popular you are

everyone is like ME ME ME I'm super important look at me me ME.

I was walking around a small lake yesterday and 2 teenage girls probably uni student age were there one was trying to take photos of the other and they had to pause whilst I walked past and the one taking the photo told the other one to stop laughing.

I assume she felt embarrassed, I was tempted to say "Don't be embarrassed, live your life for you and don't care about what other people think, be your self"
then I realised it's probably a photo for instagram or somewhere else to show how out going and active they are by presenting a false narrative of their life.


people are literally editing their own lives big brother style to make out something happened that didn't.
 
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It's anti white supremacy, you know what that is right? Not anti white people. Awful straw man argument.

If you didn't know, here is the definition from Wiki.



Do you have a problem with getting rid of this?



Not so different to this forum at times then.

By white supremacy im pretty sure blm mean white people holding positions of power, not kkk.
 
...censoring freedom of speech...

It's not a freedom of speech issue as it's a private platform, you agree to their T&C's upon signup and the platform is entirely in their right to govern it as they please (within their T&C's, which can and do change).

Obviously, if you don't like the terms of one platform then you're in your right to choose another to share your opinions and views.
 
I assume she felt embarrassed, I was tempted to say "Don't be embarrassed, live your life for you and don't care about what other people think, be your self"
then I realised it's probably a photo for instagram or somewhere else to show how out going and active they are by presenting a false narrative of their life.
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What's different from what families would send each other Christmas letters with cards with a yearly update of what they've been up to, and it was always fun positive stuff. Of course people always want to show off their best side, that's not the unhealthy part about it. The unhealthy part is not being able to separate that from real life.
 
I've not seen the original comments he made but were they as bad as stating that (only) black lives matter?

On the blm website it states



Replace white with jewish and that would be anti semitic right? so whynis it not anti white?
He basically said jews were the KKK were the one that was reported and he only cared about blacks. There was other comments as well apparently. But he then started making threatening/abusive posts at various people who picked him up about it as well. Basically outted himself as a massive racist.
 
What's different from what families would send each other Christmas letters with cards with a yearly update of what they've been up to, and it was always fun positive stuff. Of course people always want to show off their best side, that's not the unhealthy part about it. The unhealthy part is not being able to separate that from real life.
no one seems to want to be them self any more or find out who they are.

seems people would rather be someone else, it's a pretty dangerous path to be leading down imo.

if suicide rates increase generation on generation we know why, if you don't have 1 million followers on instagram and never had a retweet by someone really popular on twitter there then your a failure.


it's kinda weird because schools were teaching it's not about winning it's about taking part and everyone gets a medal? yet people seem more competitive than ever..

maybe teaching people that there is always going to be someone better than you and all you can do is your best maybe wasn't such a terrible idea after all.

maybe it allowed people to be happier in their own limited success
 
Replace white with jewish and that would be anti semitic right? so whynis it not anti white?

You're speculating. Jews are a very specific group. Whites probably fall into every single religious category, are present in every country, every continent etc.

No one is expressing anti-white views, they're expressing anti-white-only views, otherwise known as white supremacy.

I'm guessing that you live in a echo chamber of white people who really feel like their liberties are being impaired. Guess what - standing up for other races is not impeding on "white rights."
 
You may have heard about some... people, opting to boycott twitter for 48 hours in relation to a music artist making purportedly anti-semetic comments.

Whether the comments were anti-semetic or not is not what I wish to discuss.

My principal thoughts are in relation to a “48 twitter boycott”.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53553573

This is possibly one of the weakest things I’ve ever heard. Standing in solidarity against... whatever, by boycotting social media for such a pathetically short time... I just find it embarrassing. Oh, what bravery and courage is on display!!

A 48 hour twitter boycott.

I just can’t get over it. How is that a thing. What is going on. Wut.

Just me?
I've seen his comments - didn't seem especially bad to me anyhow. I mean far less bad than putting the entire country on house-arrest due to a bad flu!
 
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