Posted on 09/30/2019 8:19:28 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Much to the ire of certain corners of the Right, Twitter has evidently suspended the account of "Mini AOC," an 8-year-old girl who lampoons liberal firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Any self-actualized conservative ought to admit that the tech giant was unequivocally right to do so.
We rightfully criticize the Left when they prop up Greta Thunberg as an authority on climate change. Thunberg being a 16-year-old Swedish girl with a number of mental health problems renders her uniquely susceptible to the pressures of the global political stage. We understand that hiding behind children to voice the political opinions of adults is grossly disingenuous, and even more important, we know that the public sphere, especially the political one, is a vile, nasty, and cruel space. There's nary a journalist, politician, or activist who hasn't been harassed online, and plenty of us receive death and rape threats on the regular.
To throw children into that arena is cruelty.
The case of Mini AOC (whose real name I'll not be using) is even more egregious than that of Thunberg. Whereas Thunberg's parents were complicit in allowing her to become a pawn of the Left, Mini AOC's mother actively instigated turning her daughter into a living political parody. Remember, this child is half Thunberg's age and less than a third of the real Ocasio-Cortez. As cute as the girl may be and as funny as her anti-socialist quips surely are, an 8-year-old with zero political agency should not be forced to express opinions she may not later agree with as an independent, adult individual.
Twitter often wrongly bans people out of its sheer political bias. While that's its prerogative, the public is right to call out its supposed dedication to free speech as hogwash.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Found her on youtube. “mini aoc”
Video said she wouldn’t be making any more videos because of the death threats the family was receiving.
Why did Twitter ban her?
It wasn’t because she is a child, was it.
I thought this couldn’t be right...the WaPo would never use the language this writer used. Then I saw the link at the bottom to the WaEx. Please fix the citation at the top, because this isn’t from WaPo.
Why ban political speech of anyone? Especially a parody site, not unlike what SNL does.
No, your fascist totalitarian freak feels that way.
I thought mini AOC was hysterical.
Leftists want to shut down any criticism of their socialist fantasies.
YouTube took un-indexed the original poster of Greta Thornberg Sings Swedish Death Metal.
It’s a must-see.
But another poster has it up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kD1zubg3cA
She was upending Greta. Must Bury Competition.
Twitter and the Washington Bird Cage Liner strike again. They think mini-AOC, by all appearances a happy, well adjusted child, is worse than Greta Thunberg, an angry, maladjusted, ignorant, borderline retarded teen. Uh, no soap, Dr. Evil.
Doesn’t look like she is banned to me . Her Twitter page is up. She’s funny and adorable.
to express opinions she may not later agree with as an independent, adult individual.
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She’s being raised right so there’s little chance she will succumb to the propaganda of public education and major media.
She’s Hilarious!!!
She apparently has come back after that.
That video is brilliant.
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc. have in effect become public utilities and, like the phone company, should not be allowed to ban anyone who is not breaking the law.
Mentally ill leftist conflates 8 year old making comedy videos with 16 year old pretending to be an expert in science and lecturing the world at the UN.
OTOH the UN should probably be considered as serious a venue as the Youtube channel of an 8 year old.
These self righteous a$$hole fake conservatives really pi$$ me off.
This is what fighting back against the fascist left looks like!!!
Free mini-AOC!!!
Absurd comparison. Thunberg is bitterly scolding adults and spreading misinformation that she has been fed. Mini-AOC is just doing comedy and is not spreading misinformation.
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