1) Your bio says that you like to enact comment-sense solutions to Keep America Great. Is pretending to be a Black gay man on the internet one of those common-sense solutions?
2) Since you just lost an election in Pennsylvania, I have to ask: Did you vote once, or did you vote once as yourself and then again as your Black gay alternative identity?
Did you take an exit poll? Did you identify yourself as Black in that?
Dude is trying to change the subject but his new tweet has almost 2000 replies all making fun of his black gay guy self-ID.
Normally I'd be against a pile-on, but he's a public figure and a politician, so fair target, as far as I'm concerned.
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What @AbigailShrier says here about current-day censorship encapsulates what's terribly wrong with most of our free-speech-advocate pundits and journalists.
She's talking about Amazon, which sells her book, not accepting ads for it, and various places not reviewing it.
Contrary to what @AbigailShrier thinks, censorship in 21st-century America often IS the government sending police to people's homes.
It's just that people who are censored - the most harmed victims of censorship - aren't people Shrier or her peers pay much attention to.
Shrier's not paying attention to victims in marginalized groups - undocumented immigrants, prisoners, sex workers - who are censored, not by Amazon not carrying an ad, but by armed government agents.
I got my ballot in the mail today. And that means - time to vote! Time to go through the whole ballot and figure out who I want to be Circuit Court judge (4th district position 12), who should be the east soil & water director-at-large 2, and many other exciting races!
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And before anyone asks, yes it is legal to take photos of your ballot in the state of Oregon.
The Federal offices come first.
For president, I'm voting for Biden. I don't have to - Oregon is a safe state, so I could vote third party - but I'm hoping Biden's popular vote win will be enormous, and taken as a repudiation of what the GOP has become.
David French's thread defending the anti-lgbt Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) is nonsensical and illogical.
He's angry that people call ADF "hateful." But he never addresses or even acknowledges the arguments for ADF being a hate group, choosing to focus on irrelevancies instead.
You can either treat it as if it's a unique threat coming from the SJ left.
Or you can actually take a stand about the problem, in a fair way that holds everyone to similar standards.
But you can't do both.
Is there a problem on the left of some people being too dogmatic and lacking in mercy or a sense of proportion? And that sometimes manifests in angries on the internet overreacting and people getting fired? And this can chill speech and make some people fearful of dissent?
Another example of right-wing "cancel culture," that no one calls "cancel culture": At least 20 health officials around the country have been fired, or left their jobs under great pressure (including personal attacks and threats), because they're pro-masking and/or pro-lockdown.
In Ohio, a health official with the awesome superhero name Amy Action faced "armed protesters at her home bearing messages including anti-Semitic and sexist slurs. One Republican lawmaker linked Acton, who is Jewish, to Nazi Germany," until she switched her role to "advisory."
In Colorado, Emily Brown was fired after six years because angries on social media went after her.
Why haven't we heard about this as another "social media mob" pushing "cancel culture"? I believe it's because the people calling for Brown's head were right-wing.