Jonathon Pie slinging truth bombs all over the place here, but given what I’ve said about the RBL incident, think it goes best here:
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On a day Graham Linehan was driven off twitter, it rings extra true.
But I do think it is unfair to exclusively label left wingers as the creators of this phenomenon (even though they now are by far the biggest users of it).
As I said in my earlier post, speaking out against Israel was the original cancellation act.
Marc Lamont Hill was tenured but still got sacked for speaking out against Israel, and NYT dipshits like Bari Weiss and Bret Stephens demanded he be sacked (incidentally they also rate against cancel-culture, but few point out that hypocrisy).
And then of course the demands of the Labour party under Corbyn here, the demands for sackings and for accepting certain definitions etc.
In all, I wish everyone would grow up and could just ignore people who said dumb things, and not destroy livelihoods.
I agree how hard it’s always been to critique Israel. The difference here is that all she did was retweet a published article from a respected newspaper. She didn’t even say anything. How have we reached the stage where a mere retweet is a sackable offense? I would argue it’s because our own side have called for such things to be sackable for so long, and with such success, that it’s become an established norm.
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I mean there’s the fact most of our MP’s are corrupted ‘Friends of Israel’, with all their free holidays. And the fact many people in the media will look to destroy/cancel anyone against Israeli agenda because of Pro Israeli gatekeeping.
We really needs to be some left wing pushback against Pro Israeli corruption.
I liked Starmer before this move but I think he’s showing his stripes right now.
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It’s not hard to critique Israel. Just criticize the government and don’t veer into tinfoil hat territory regarding Jews as a whole.
Easy example: The Israeli government policy towards the Palestinian people is a racist and colonial endeavor. The politicians responsible should be ashamed.
This is a criticism of government policy.
What is out of bounds is taking that terrible government policy and saying that because the people behind it are Jewish the worldwide Jewish community as a whole is to blame. I don’t live in Israel, they don’t represent me, that clown of a president there doesn’t represent me. But some people can’t differentiate between Jews as a religious/ethnic/cultural community and Israel as a political entity.
Interestingly, a lot of times it’s hard line right wing politicians in Israel who deliberately conflate the two in an attempt to spook older folks living outside Israel into believing they’re unsafe living in France or the US.
‘It’s not hard to critique Israel’, yet the MP here hasn’t done anything under your definition of ‘out of bounds’, under you criteria.
She’s meerly linked an article which truthfulyl states US police have an exchange policy to train police in Israel. That’s why she’s been sacked. It’s absolutely disgusting. Regardless of religion or ethnity you should be disgusted
If any people are using your religion or ethnicity to wrongly discriminate against others you should be ethically opposed
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He wasn’t driven off. He has spent years picking a fight and people fought him back. He’s a hate filled prick and he’s deserved the ban for years to be honest.
After a quick peruse of his wiki. What’s you basis for this?
Seeing what he was posting.
Well ok, what are you best examples? I don’t vacate twitter
Well all his tweets are deleted so I can’t link but he was sending hundreds a day (obviously some more objectionable than others). Search #glinner on there and I’d imagine you’ll find plenty of what I’m talking about. If you’re actually interested that is.
He’s not the most tactful and respectful of people granted, but I don’t think he deserved to be driven off.
But I guess the situations aren’t comparable as he was taken off a social media platform and not lose his job.
@Dr_Strangepass you’re right there tbf.
That’s exactly why he deserved to be banned (not driven off).
My dude, I’m not arguing to the contrary. I think it was a mistake to fire her.
Twitter’s banning policy is impossible to figure out. That guy gets banned, but you can go and watch someone literally sucking juice, with a straw, out of a pornstars asshole.
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I’ve been down a few rabbit holes on Twitter, and one time was trying to find the most depraved porn. I think most people would be astonished as to just what is on that platform 
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I searched suck juice out of ass and I got no videos, so my evenings ruined.
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