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Twitter Signals to Racists, Hate Speech Is Okay
An increased flow of hateful vitriol has been invading the platform and Twitter Safety is intent on allowing it
[CONTENT WARNING: RACISM, HATE SPEECH, USE OF N-WORD]
Over the last several months, new accounts (and a few that were dormant) began a campaign of trolling using hate speech. We’ve seen racist conversations in Twitter Spaces being promoted out in the open and one of our Writers and Editors of Color Spaces for our “The Case for the 1619 Project” was infiltrated by a clown spouting the n-word over and over again. Clearly, an already out-of-control problem, and despite the claimed efforts of Twitter Safety, a growing one.
As if the issue of extremists and hatemongers wasn’t bad enough, Twitter has recently taken to elevating hate speech. Due to Twitter’s inaction, many have commented on the reality that far-right bigotry and extremism are set to become mainstream again. Not to say that it hasn’t been mainstream. I mean, Tucker Carlson with his millions of viewers every night, and others like him, are promoting the racist white replacement conspiracy theory among other cooky baseless claims of schemes by those who don’t think like them.
