Thread by @amuse

1/ Political violence is NEVER an appropriate call to action. It is certainly not appropriate for a sitting United States Senator like @CoryBooker to call on Americans to head to the Capitol to "get up in the face of Congresspeople." #incitement

2/ Threatening to physically confront your political opponents is NEVER inappropriate. It certainly wasn't appropriate for @RepMaxineWaters to call on her supporters to physically confront Republicans in the streets, in restaurants, and at church. #incitement

3/ Suggesting that violence is the ONLY way to bring about change is plain wrong. It certainly wasn't appropriate for @HillaryClinton to threaten continued violence unless Americans voted for Democrats. #incitement

4/ Calling for a revolution in a functioning democracy is NEVER the answer. It certainly wasn't appropriate for @Kaepernick7 to call on Americans to fight the police. #incitement

5/ Enabling insurrection by posting bail for those who assault police officers, riot in the streets, set fire to buildings, and loot retail stores is not appropriate. It certainly wasn't appropriate for @KamalaHarris to call on others to join her in enabling the insurrection.

6/ It is never appropriate for a leader of a nation to call for violence against a group of people based on their beliefs as @khamenei_ir routinely does here on Twitter.

7/ Overlooking threats of violence on platforms like Twitter normalizes them and allows them to be amplified spreading hate. Twitter routinely allows hate targeting police to remain on the platform for days, weeks, and even months.

8/ Conservatives on Twitter have had to deal with hate from the very start. Sometimes the hate is simply focused on our political party while in other cases it is focused on our race or gender. Again, Twitter routinely allows this hate to remain on the platform for long periods.

9/ Twitter is a cesspool of hate. The platform hosts thousands of accounts that openly profess their hatred of first responders and law enforcement. Their #incitement is tacitly supported by Twitter, Apple, Google, and Amazon.

10/ Twitter and by affiliation Apple, Google, and Amazon host thousands of accounts that openly profess their hatred of half of America because of their membership in a political party. Again, their #incitement is supported by #BigTech.

11/ Remember that time when @SpeakerPelosi called for uprisings all over the country. Why was her #incitement tolerated by #BigTech and the mainstream media?

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