Comment by CaptWillard
2 years ago
This kind of rhetoric had a good run, but you should understand it is now (solidly) a net loss in persuasion.
2 years ago
This kind of rhetoric had a good run, but you should understand it is now (solidly) a net loss in persuasion.
The attempt is not persuasion, but alienation. This is the fate of people who behave as he does, and I believe will contribute (to the extent any one person can) in deterrence of others from trying to normalize continued Twitter usage in light of its antisemitic shift in tone.
Alienation from what? People who uncritically parrot fabrications and propaganda on HN?
THAT is what shouldn't be "normalized".
But since you brought it up, of all the indicators of societal descent over the last 7-10 years, the shift away from critical analysis and open dialogue to soviet-level information control and behavior/thought policing is most troubling.
I use Twitter daily because it's the only platform where I have a chance to hear the whole truth on a given subject, usually assembled from multiple sources. I follow a lot of actual leftists as well as the conservatives and liberals-in-exile that make up the modern "right".
I don't know that I follow anyone with whom I agree on every topic, and that's as it should be IMO. Even when I strongly disagree, I'm grateful for the freedom to hear and evaluate these voices.
And while I'm reluctant to engage with your "argument", I'll say that I've seen a handful of antisemitic posts over 10+ years on Twitter, none recently. I have seen a fair amount of anti-Israel and anti-Zionist content in the last six weeks, consistently from those on the left and consistent with what I've seen in demonstrations around the world.
The continued use of Twitter ought to be met with disdain by anyone with a modicum of integrity. It is each person’s duty to make that clear to those who seem to lack the ability to self regulate, morally.
You don’t get to support a hateful platform consequence free.