1/ This is the story of "the story" that @dailykos tried to hush up - when a white male Contributing Editor on staff harassed an accomplished Black woman, @ninaturner , with disgusting sexist tweets.
@dailykos @ninaturner 2/ Tweeter is named Armando Llorens, @armandodkos, and is listed on the dailykos.com/staff/ page. Story is remarkable because @dailykos presents itself as a progressive site fighting on behalf of women and poc.
@dailykos @ninaturner @armandodkos 3/ Llorens used to advertise his connection to Daily Kos on his twitter profile:
@dailykos @ninaturner @armandodkos 4/ He recently changed his profile to de-emphasize this connection, however, lol.
@dailykos @ninaturner @armandodkos 5/ When a black man, Progressive First, tried to report the story of Armando's sexist tweets to the Daily Kos community, his diary was deleted by the mods and he was put on a timeout. The question is: why?
@dailykos @ninaturner @armandodkos 6/ Others reported the story later. One diary is now high on the rec list (a sign of approval from the community). In the comments, some actually dismiss the events as “Armando being Armando”.
dailykos.com/stories/2019/0…
@dailykos @ninaturner @armandodkos 7/ Here now are screenshots of the story that Daily Kos mods did not want anyone to see:
@dailykos @ninaturner @armandodkos 12/ FYI, a petition has been submitted to change.com to have Armando Llorens Fired from Daily Kos
@dailykos @ninaturner @armandodkos 13/ New!
@dailykos @ninaturner @armandodkos 14/ Update
@dailykos @ninaturner @armandodkos 15/ "Hi all, Daily Kos Communications Director here. I wanted to let everyone know that Daily Kos has ended its association with non-staff contributor Armando Lloren, as his behavior is not reflective of the values and priorities of this organization."
dailykos.com/comments/18805…
@dailykos @ninaturner @armandodkos 16/ I asked "when will Progressive First’s Timeout be lifted? At the moment, Armando has more Daily Kos privileges than PF does, which seems more than a little perverse" ... Crickets ...
dailykos.com/comments/18805…
@dailykos @ninaturner @armandodkos 17/ @armandodkos is no more.
He is now @ArmandoNotDk. Seriously.
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