Thread by @_centrists_

@_journaling_ "WHOA. That's beyond a troll, in my opinion. That's... Well, that's something I'd call the police over, to be honest.

But... maybe I'm just silly."

archive.is/DS1wz

Ms. Green-Hart was being more than just silly.

@_journaling_ Arguably, posting that tweet which (like much of this discussion) I have archived, was a criminal act. If the OP tells the cops that I threatened her, she will be make a false police report. That's a felony.

@_journaling_ Which is one of the reasons why I've been archiving these discussions. A dirty delete won't make the archived copies go away, and they would be admissible in court.

Let's keep people honest, or at least try.

@_journaling_ As one can see just by doing a simple search, until just now, I wasn't interacting with Ms. Green-Hart.

twitter.com/search?l=&q=%2…

See the absence of tweets from me to her, before 3 minutes ago? But she isn't willing to be ignored, is she?

@_journaling_ If you go to this tweet

https://twitter.com/SJGreenHart/status/1145689924462682117

which has been archived

http://archive.is/https://twitter.com/SJGreenHart/status/1145689924462682117

archive.is/UHe2u

we see Sarah talking about somebody. Who? Sarah doesn't name his, but context removes all doubt.

@_journaling_ I believe that the whole discussion, as it is up at this moment, has been archived, so if anybody was hoping to delete his tweets, too late for that.

@_journaling_ Giving the timing, the presence of this discussion, and the allusions in that other discussion, there can be little doubt that I'm the supposed "troll" being talked about.

Because I wrote a piece of fiction and stood up for myself when I was attacked for doing so.

@_journaling_ Follow the links in the archive and see this for yourself, at least until I (or somebody else) gets around to inserting direct links for those reading this.

@_journaling_ Though Sarah admits that I had been leaving her alone (and in fact, had her blocked), she insists that my presence on Twitter is somehow an act of aggression against her, because she has feels.

@_journaling_ Further, she feel so distressed by the fact that she can't get me thrown of this site, apparently on a whim, that she wants to walk up to me in person and scream at me.

Stand in line?

@_journaling_ One of her arguments is that the system at Twitter is obviously out of control, because my account has been locked so many times and yet I keep coming back. One of her friends suggested that I'm a master troll who knows how far he can go.

@_journaling_ I almost have to laugh. As anybody can see, just by looking at my timeline, I'm no sort of troll at all. Most of what I do here consists of retweeting art and photography tweets, when I'm not being the beleaguered voice of reason in discussions.

@_journaling_ Often, with people I should have the sense to ignore.

Sarah knows why I've been getting locked out, and so do the rest of you, the moment you take a look at my personal description.

I am Jewish. I don't try to hide that, because there's no reason why I should.

@_journaling_ But Twitter, like Youtube, has a real problem with anti-Semitism, and it is not a subtle one. Jewish users routinely get targeted for harassment and false flagging on this site, which becomes a problem for us because Twitter uses automated mob moderation.

@_journaling_ Sarah knows about this problem quite well, but not because she has experienced it. She knows about it because the supposed "troll" that I remind her of was massively targeted for years.

@_journaling_ Sarah taunted him about that, and then filed a complaint with Twitter when he responded to her offer of friendship with incredulity and told her that he never wanted to see or hear of her, again.

@_journaling_ One of Sarah's friends decided to help her by false flagging one of her victim's tweets, one in which he mentions an expression his south side Sephardic Jewish grandmother used to use, when he was little.

@_journaling_ Much as the OP is making the absurd claim that a piece of fiction (posted as fiction) is a death threat, counting on a Twitter admin to not look too deeply, her very Anglo-Saxon friend claimed that the explanation of an expression in Haketia (I believe) was a death threat.

@_journaling_ Her claim was nakedly absurd. All that one had to do was look at the tweet and see that the report was a lie. But the admin processing the victim's appeal refused to examine the easily seen facts of the matter with a fair and open mind.

@_journaling_ One should remember that this is the same company that suspended a Jewish female user after she got dogpiled by literal neo-Nazis threatening to rape her.

Privilege at work. Privilege Sarah was happy to enjoy.

@_journaling_ Twitter: run by bigots, for bigots.

@_journaling_ The Jewish online experience in America, post- 3 Nov 2016, has varied a lot, but it has tended to be a terrible one, at least until one gets enough of the literal Nazis on this site blocked, which does take a bite out of their false flagging.

@_journaling_ How do we see the self-described Christian homeschooling mom Sarah Green-Hart reacting to this? Basically, by saying

"It's so unfair. The Nazis worked so hard to silence this Hebrew, and he goes on being allowed to speak, as if he were a person or something."

@_journaling_ Of these kind, caring people, another one of whom can be seen posting her own anti-Semitic remarks (yet another jumping in with some ableism), how many do you see saying "hey, Sarah, cheerleading for the Nazis is not a good thing to do."

@_journaling_ As I said elsewhere, while you guys care immensely about the mistreatment of fictional characters, that same concern doesn't seem to be present for real, flesh and blood human beings. At least, not the Semitic kind.

@_journaling_ Follow the link above, wander around, and you'll see people talking about the possibility of hacking my computer (a federal offense, by the way), abusing the flagging procedure and what else?

Because I wrote a story and because Sarah has feels.

@_journaling_ Feels that she seems to consistently have whenever she runs into Jewish men who dare to stand up for themselves. She's not subtle, but she doesn't need to be, does she?

@_journaling_ I was going to say "guys, this is crazy, making this much of a fuss about a mild piece of horror fiction," but the story isn't the real issue, is it? It's just the excuse.

This really isn't debatable, either.

@_journaling_ The same people who complain about my little impromptu piece of crossover horror / satirical fiction write far darker and cruder things with regularity, and most of the fictional victims are female, as far I can tell.

@_journaling_ But name another Jewish author on this site. Can you name even one? I can't. Jewish writers are anything but rare offline, but to look at this site, one would never guess it.

@_journaling_ Maybe because people like you have been looking for excuses to complain when we show up. Any pretext will do, won't it?

@_journaling_ Do a search under Twitter and anti-Semitism on Google, and one pulls up over 30 million hits. There are fewer than 15 million Jews in the world, and we're not all on this site.

Dealing with all of that Hate gets tiring. You can't imagine how much, though I'll bet some of you try

@_journaling_ Not out of empathy. Out of sadistic glee.

So far, I've heard nothing from Twitter about your absurd complaints. Maybe the wheels are still turning.

@_journaling_ Maybe Twitter doesn't want to become known as the company that punished a user for writing a piece of fiction.

Honestly, I wouldn't know. But I do know that I'm glad to be rid of the company of a pack of people like you.

@_journaling_ The most incredible part of this is the way in which you can gang up on somebody, try to destroy his reputation with lies that can be shown to be lies, try to get action taken against him (destroying some of his work) and imagine that your target is the aggressor.

@_journaling_ You're bigots and you've just done what bigots have done for centuries. You gathered a lynch mob. Only this time, the victim seems to have gotten away.

Poor you. So entitled, and yet so frustrated. How can life be so unfair? 🙄

@_journaling_ Yes, that was sarcasm.

@_journaling_ unroll @threadreaderapp

@_journaling_ "Sarah doesn't name his"

Read: "Sarah doesn't name him." @jack, we need an edit function.

My answer to Sara and one of her admirers / enablers

https://twitter.com/_centrists_/status/1146057196544745472

which (of course) I'm archiving

https://archive.is/https://twitter.com/_centrists_/status/1146057196544745472

archive.is/uhWTj

like everything else.