Skylar
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In its latest demonstration of political disingenuousness, Twitter temporarily suspended Turning Point USA communications director Candace Owensâ account â after she took racist tweets from New York Times editorial board member Sarah Jeong, replaced the word âwhitesâ with âblacks,â and tweeted them out again.
For Example:
Black people are only fit to live underground like groveling goblins. They have stopped breeding and will all go extinct soon. I enjoy being cruel to old black women.
The above statements are from @nytimes editor @sarahjeong. I simply swapped out the word âwhiteâ for âblackâ.
Owens was then suspended. Hilariously, Twitter then backtracked and admitted its mistake. So, how exactly did Twitter make that error? Human complaints? Algorithms? We have no way of knowing. But suffice it to say that the double standard in social media just received another piece of bolstering evidence. As Owens stated, Jeongâs comments were âhorrifically racist, but somehow weâve gotten to a point in society where itâs OK to say the exact same thing about white people, and thatâs problematic.â
Most likely algorithms. The overwhelming majority of social media posting and moderation is automated to save costs.
Its far more likely that certain key words triggered the ban automatically, a living person reviewed the ban and overturned it.
Which doesn't play well for the 'double standard' narrative.