The Great Twitter Purge—Corporate Cultural Marxists Overplay Hand?

James Kirkpatrick • December 18, 2017

[color="Red"]The long-rumored Twitter purge is finally underway. In the guise of confronting “violence,” accounts are being banned by the platform [Twitter Rolls Out New “Hate-Speech Guidelines, WND, December 18, 2017]. Among today’s victims: American Renaissance and its Editor Jared Taylor (you can follow both at Gab.ai).

Taylor was accused by Twitter of being “affiliated with a violent extremist group,” that is, “organizations that––whether by their own statements or activity both on and off the platform––use or promote violence against civilians to further their causes.”

But as Taylor himself put it:

Not even our worst enemies say we are a ‘violent extremist organization.’ And if not AmRen, with what other violent group am I affiliated?

[color="Blue"]American Renaissance, of course, focuses on providing the journalism that should have followed the publication of The Bell Curve, were it not for the orchestrated Reign of Terror that drove the facts about race and IQ back underground. Twitter’s ban is particularly interesting because Taylor has been certified as “not an anti-Semite” by none other than the SPLC’s Mark Potok. But it has done him no good.

Others banned include:

[color="Red"]Matt Heimbach
The Traditionalist Workers Party
Brad Griffin of Occidental Dissent
Michael Hill of the League of the South
The English Defense League
Accounts linked to Britain First, including that of Jayda Fransen, whom President Trump retweeted. [Twitter suspends Britain First account that Trump retweeted, by Alanna Petroffi, CNN, December 18, 2017]

Innumerable others have also been banned. But others remain. There seems to be no overall pattern to it. However, probably more will follow, as the platform has begun tracking users’ behavior “both on and off the platform” as one of the factors it examines when determining whether to ban an account or not [Twitter vs. Free Speech, by Chace Paulson, Capital Research Center, November 29, 2017. Emphasis added].

[color="Blue"](Off the platform? Where will that leave President Trump—the Tweeter-In-Chief?)

[color="Red"]Needless to say, Main Stream Media journalists/ PC Enforcers are cheering these actions.

Which is especially ironic given the MSM commissars’ supposed rationale for opposing “net neutrality.” Earlier this week, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai rolled back the policy which forced Internet service providers to treat all content the same, a decision unpopular in the Main Stream Media. Author Aja Romano [Tweet her] moaned in Vox that the decision would open the door to “forced redirection, content-blocking, software-blocking, website-blocking… and censorship of controversial subjects” [Net neutrality is now officially on life support. Here’s what happens next, December 14, 2017]

But the very next day, Romano giddily promoted her support for corporate censorship, this time in the service of banning “Nazis” from Twitter.

t’s kinda nice to keep the faith and hope for the best, especially as we come to the end of a tense and exhausting year. ‘Banning the Nazis’ in 3, 2, 1 days won’t make them any less pernicious or toxic offline. But if Twitter indeed follows through, its actions will hopefully, finally, be a sign that the site — a platform to which many of us have probably entrusted too much of our lives and friendship networks — has at long last established a clear, firm line when it comes to hate speech.

[Twitter is days away from finally banning the Nazis. Yes, really, December 15, 2017]

[color="Red"]Of course, by “Nazis” Romano means any right-of-center white person. Today “Nazi” does not mean a supporter of the National Socialist German Workers Party or even a follower of the late George Lincoln Rockwell. Instead, “Nazi” is a kind of racial slur [used] to identify and demonize all white people. As one [of] the main groups involved in determining which users [will] or will not be permitted is the Anti-Defamation League, it’s clear the main rationale behind Twitter’s policies [is] simply anti-white hatred as such. [Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft Join Forces With ADL To Create ‘Cyberhate Problem-Solving Lab,’ by Allum Bokhari, Breitbart, October 10, 2017]

In fact, Twitter has plenty of “hate speech” remaining on the platform, even under verified accounts. Figures who openly and unironically call for “white genocide” and preach hate against whites are still proudly hosted [Why Is Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Allowing ‘Verified’ Users To ‘Promote Hate’ Against White People? By Chris Menahan, Infowars, November 16, 2017] Anti-white ideologue Tim Wise will never lose his verification, let alone his Twitter account, for his call to “destroy white Alabama” if the Roy Moore/Doug Jones race hadn’t gone his way...