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Marcus Hutchins :verified:

@jerry American politics is what's happening. "Will you allow people to be openly racist" is a hard question to answer in the US

Mathaetaes

@malwaretech @jerry It's not a hard question to answer, it's just that nazi extremists in the US have made the consequences of answering it in the objectively right way hard, and the rest of the population, consisting mostly of non-extremist, compassionate people, haven't taken to death threats and harassment as a means of countering this pressure from the other side.

Kris Hardy 🧐

@mathaetaes @malwaretech @jerry I disagree. White supremacists are used to the public answer being one thing but the actual implementation being different. My only take is that he wants to say yes but doesn't want to be called out publicly for it by antiracists.

Krux

@malwaretech @jerry it shouldn't be, but there are too many racist selfish assholes in this country.

BibbleCo

@malwaretech @jerry they're screwed 7ntil they scrap the constitution and start again from scratch #unpopularOpinion

Shinra Shokudo (Midgar Diner)

@BibbleCo @malwaretech @jerry The constitution isn't the problem, changing a piece of paper won't disrupt the entrenchment of white supremacist good ol boy networks.

BibbleCo

@ostrich @malwaretech @jerry Agreed; but it would (assuming the replacement were more rational) remove the obstacles to doing so.

Shinra Shokudo (Midgar Diner)

@BibbleCo @malwaretech @jerry I don't think it'd go down the way you think it would. Text alone does not make a nation; the text is a representation of consensus. Attempting to remake the text, even with consensus, leads to protracted rebellion. The 13th and 14th Amendments and the Jim Crow era that followed them are evidence of that.

Shinra Shokudo (Midgar Diner)

@BibbleCo @malwaretech @jerry Any alteration to the constitution separate from a comprehensive strategy for systematic elimination of systems of white supremacy is the dog not knowing what to do after catching the mail truck.

demΓ―7en πŸŽ—

@malwaretech @jerry

Sociopathy, indiffence and hedonism. That's what's been on sale for the last few decades. Weaponization of the US constitution to enable all this intolerance.

Michael Fisher

@demi7en @malwaretech @jerry I didn’t realize til now that one can indeed weaponize something by throwing it in a wood chipper.

demΓ―7en πŸŽ—

@mjf_pro @malwaretech @jerry

It's the good intentions that are in the wood chipper. The "letter" has been weaponized to normalize hate speech and intolerance.

Andrew 🌻 Brandt πŸ‡

@jerry @malwaretech this is about as bad as just openly soliciting the worst people to come join your brand new platform. He's acting like this is a problem that has never been dealt with before.

Jerry Bell :verified_paw: :donor: :verified_dragon: :rebelverified:​

@threatresearch @malwaretech the cynical part of me thinks it’s strategic awfulness intended to controversy and engagement

Andrew 🌻 Brandt πŸ‡

@jerry @malwaretech well, mission accomplished, then! Controversy achievement unlocked.πŸ˜‚β€‹

I don't know where all these people who end up as the heads of these large social media corporations come from, but I'm going to guess it's from under the same fusty rock, and I'd like them to just crawl back under that rock and remain there for the rest of time.

Just once, I'd like to see a social media executive put their foot down and say, no, we won't allow you to weaponize our platform with hate speech. Cowards, the lot of them.

@jerry @malwaretech well, mission accomplished, then! Controversy achievement unlocked.πŸ˜‚β€‹

I don't know where all these people who end up as the heads of these large social media corporations come from, but I'm going to guess it's from under the same fusty rock, and I'd like them to just crawl back under that rock and remain there for the rest of time.

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