I do not agree with your assumption-the reporting and removal of offensive posts is long standing procedure.
Threads getting pulled is not a totally rare happening. I wouldn’t try to read so much into the action.
Van Jones tweets:
What’s happening with Jussie Smollett is devastating. We still don’t know everything and we shouldn’t rush to judgment, but this is a setback on so many fronts – race, homophobia... it’s a tragedy beyond words in our community.
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When will the black community wake up to the fact that the derps use them for their own gain and don’t really care about the ramifications for them?