Posted on 05/13/2019 6:18:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
Political correctness has escalated out of control. It used to be you were criticized if you said something that the left didn’t agree with. That was political debate. Now, the left will come after you with a vengeance and destroy your career, your life and often your presence on social media. The number of regular conservatives being censored on social media is growing; almost every day there is another report of one being banned or suspended from one of the major platforms. Many of them lose their jobs.
The only way to survive this type of witch hunt is to water down everything you say. References to violence are out, even if they are clearly meant allegorically. This includes statements made by revered historical figures. Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death!” will likely get you suspended or banned from social media. The actor James Woods tweeted in response to the Mueller report, "If you try to kill the King, you better not miss. #HangThemAll." It is a line from the TV series The Wire, which was paraphrased from a line by the poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was an obvious allegory but Twitter decided to treat it like a real threat of violence, no doubt because Woods is a brilliant conservative mind whose tweets go viral they’re so clever.
David Clarke, the former sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, was suspended from Twitter over a tweet that was an obvious allegory. He tweeted about the media, "Punch them in the nose & MAKE THEM TASTE THEIR OWN BLOOD."
Comparisons to evil tyrants are also risky. A friend of mine posted an image featuring dictators like Hitler supporting gun control on her Facebook page, and was promptly suspended for three days. Merely pointing out the negatives about a tyrant is enough to get suspended.
Criticizing LGBT and feminist issues is dangerous. Feminist Meghan Murphy was banned from Twitter for using male pronouns to refer to a transgender who was born biologically a male. Robert Stacy McCain was banned from Twitter in 2016 for his witty takedowns of feminists.
Posting on social media about race is also risky. Conservative activist Candace Owens, who is black, copied tweets from New York Times editorial board member Sarah Jeong. Jeong viciously attacked white people in her tweets, so Owens changed them around by swapping out the races and religions. Twitter temporarily locked Owens out of her account.
Terrifyingly, sometimes it’s not even clear what posts get a conservative banned. Outspoken talk radio host Jesse Kelly was permanently banned from Twitter without explanation. He was later reinstated.
The censorship is getting more and more ridiculous. Earlier this month, Twitter banned the parody account AOCpress, which mocks Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, merely for its posts mimicking the congresswoman’s idiotic statements. The account was clearly marked as a parody account. Twitter also just suspended MAGAPhobia, an account run by One America News host Jack Posobiec that tracks acts of violence against Trump supporters.
President Trump frequently retweets funny memes by Carpe Donktum. But Twitter locked the meme creator out of his account after he posted a parody clip of an Old West gunfight between Trump and the mainstream media.
It’s worse in other countries. A journalist in Germany was given a 6 month suspended jail sentence and 100 hours of community service for arguing that Islam is a fascist ideology. He also compared the Koran to Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
The left is boxing the right in. Little by little, our allowed speech on the big tech platforms is shrinking. But too many conservatives aren’t sounding the warning bells. They think it won’t happen to them. However, we’re no longer talking about those on the fringe like Alex Jones of Infowars, Milo Yiannopoulos and Tommy Robinson. The censorship is happening to regular conservatives. It’s here, and shows no sign of letting up. Unless you want to limit your speech to milquetoast posts, it’s time to take a stand against the erosion of speech. Like it or not, speech now takes place on the platforms of the big tech giants, so ignore them at your peril. Until the right creates viable alternatives to the big tech giants, we’re stuck with them.
The Left wants to control everyone but doesn’t want to compete with human nature. So it defectors outlaws normalcy to mold people’s behavior to make everyone else docile, subservient and frustrates. The nuclear family is enemy number one since that’s where the strongest bonds are created.
Using the word “Homo” after being called “POS Homophobic”...banned.
How do you take a stand? How do you fight back?
“The last time I told a African woman who tweeted that she was afraid of being around white, cowboy hat wearing people in Montana to go back to the third world shit hole she came from.”
That was hilarious. Did the idiot ever explain why she felt unsafe? Montana cowboys are the men most likely to be very respectful of women, any color. When did a cowboy from Montana ever do anything to make her feel afraid?
I love how Trump steam rolls over egg shells.
Drivel.....recapture the language. Destroy every liberal who come at you.
If they bring a knife, kill them with a gun
No molly coddling, no kumbaya, just plain and simple death. Just beat the living hell out of them.
Retake the language. Capture the high ground. Sister in law...... to hell with her. She has ceased being American. Freeper? Lay the words on them.
Recapture the high ground, the language.
Yes, and it's been happening for the last 40 years,incrementally.
Th left may have YOU walking on eggshells. Me not so much!
Mmmmmmmm.....I can just hear Trump issuing the Ex/Order as we type......"no govt agency shall have an account on social media."
FYI----TRUMP'S SOCIAL MEDIA HUD COMPLAINT NOW IN MOTION SAYS: Facebook mines extensive user data and classifies its users based on protected characteristics. Facebook’s ad targeting tools then invite advertisers to express unlawful preferences by suggesting discriminatory options. Among those options are physical disabilities, parents with children and even religious practices — advertisers are allowed to show their ads only to people Facebook deems interested in “Jesus” or the “Christian Church,” for example. Those practices could violate the Civil Rights Act, HUD said in the complaint, dated August 13.
They censor us because they plan to kill us.
All appropriate responses acknowledge this reality.
> How do you take a stand? How do you fight back?
The easiest way is to shift any business you do from companies that cater to the Left, to companies that don’t.
The way the Left works is to control what is deemed “Controversial”, it doesn’t matter what the majority thinks, if they disagree with something, they deem it “controversial”, and Corporate America wants to avoid controversy at all costs.
JON RAPPOPORT was taken down by WordPress. He is no loon either. If you are a Jon Rappaport fan you should protest to WP. I did.
Political correctness is only used by simpletons who go around wanting everyone to like them and do stupid things to make it happen,aka losers.
“Walking On Eggshells”
Crunchy! Very satisfying, kinda like popping bubble wrap.
Over power !
Intimidation, skewing facts about history and people, bullying, threatening, just plain hostile....this is the persona of Democrat Rep. Tlaib on Israel when she said "...thinking about the Holocaust gave her "kind of a calming feeling"
Islam is the KKK of Fear, Rashida should never have been placed in our government....Muslims are, because of the tenets of Islam, bereft of freedom and liberty...they lie when they swear to protect the same....Rashida and Omar are making an Islamic stand in our Congress....Pelosi placed them both on sensitive committees and should now remove them for the good of the People. No more walking on eggshells Speaker Pelosi...get rid of these disruptive women.
The difference between now and 1984?
We have one website liberal elites don’t control and can’t take down - it’s FreeRepublic.
And I’m sure - if necessary - Jim could expand it to include banned conservative platforms. One of the big advantages of not using paid advertising... and one more reason to support this site...
That’s my point exactly. When the liberal mob descended on me I said she’s bigot. She was never safer in her life surrounded by white cowboys in Montana. The worse they’d do to her is say yea ma’am and bless your heart.
But noooooo. Banned for telling her, in so many words, to go home if she wants to feel “safe”.
ps
I said third world shit hole before the Donald did.
Were you banned permanently? I was suspended for a couple of weeks once. Some of these celebs are soooo touchy.
Oh yea. Twitter banned me permanently. Twice.
I also got banned for life from Gab for insulting Nazis. They are no different than libs and more scary.
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