Twitter Blocks the Term "Illegal Alien" From Posts - UPDATE: Twitter Backs Down

[newworldafro]

BS. If Twitter had started blocking posts using that term, it would have been unavoidably obvious and public. How could you "secretly" start blocking a whole term and think no one would notice? So the idea that Twitter started blocking a commonly used term, then suddenly stopped just because people noticed, is nonsensical. It would be the stupidest move ever because they wouldn't get any of the benefits of blocking it but all the bad publicity of having tried to block it.

Which is just one of the obvious reasons that it didn't happen.

This is why you don't post right-wing propaganda sites here. Because they just make things up.

Read the 2nd tweet in the OP.

Yes. Twitter has backed down if their shiit is entirely to obvious as ridiculous censorship. They're always testing reactions.

Update in OP: Twitter Backs Down

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Read the 2nd tweet in the OP.

Yes. Twitter has backed down if their shiit is entirely to obvious as ridiculous censorship. They're always testing reactions.

Update in OP: Twitter Backs Down

They never blocked a single tweet. Read the links. They just failed to promote a tweet.

The decision was not because the tweet said "illegal alien." CIS just made that part up, as they admitted it was a "guess."

You apparently don't understand the difference between "posting" a tweet and "promoting" a tweet. Twitter posted all the tweets, they just refused to promote some of them. It's no different than the Super Bowl committee refusing to broadcast an ad it doesn't like.

It's not your fault though, because many of your sources lied too. That's why you shouldn't use lying sources, as we told you from the very beginning.

 

[newworldafro]

They're really desperate to get those Hispanics to replace nikkas. Next you will get banned for saying DREAMers didn't build America (like that Cabello Havana song chick said), black people did.

Yeah. These companies are wild in. How do you block a legal terminology.

Next thing you know, They're gone block the term "Constitution" and/or "Bill of Rights" because it was written by raping pillaging slaveowners. Everybody knows these were hypocritical fukkbois that wrote these documents, but just like the African American and Native American museum sit on The National Mall in Washington, DC, among statues/buildings honoring the slaveowners, the Bill of Rights, which is a great document, now covers every American citizen.

Just wait......."illegal alien" is a test......their watching reactuons to see what they can get away with in these digital streets.

 

[newworldafro]

They never blocked a single tweet. Read the links. They just failed to promote a tweet.

The decision was not because the tweet said "illegal alien." CIS just made that part up, as they admitted it was a "guess."

You apparently don't understand the difference between "posting" a tweet and "promoting" a tweet. Twitter posted all the tweets, they just refused to promote some of them. It's no different than the Super Bowl committee refusing to broadcast an ad it doesn't like.

It's not your fault though, because many of your sources lied too. That's why you shouldn't use lying sources, as we told you from the very beginning.

Not promote block

Potayto ... Potawto....

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Yeah. These companies are wild in. How do you block a legal terminology.

Next thing you know, They're gone block the term "Constitution" and/or "Bill of Rights" because it was written by raping pillaging slaveowners. Everybody knows these were hypocritical fukkbois that wrote these documents, but just like the African American and Native American museum sit on The National Mall in Washington, DC, among statues/buildings honoring the slaveowners, the Bill of Rights, which is a great document, now covers every American citizen.

Just wait......."illegal alien" is a test......their watching reactuons to see what they can get away with in these digital streets.

There is absolute zero evidence that "illegal alien" was the reason the tweets were not promoted. Some of the tweets didn't even have the phrase in them.

The ONLY source for the idea that the phrase "illegal alien" was the reason the tweets were not promoted was CIS itself, and CIS admitted that they just made that accusation up as a "guess" because they don't know the actual reason.

Not promote block

Potayto ... Potawto....

There's no difference between refusing to publish something you don't like, and actually publishing it?

In the end all they did was choose not to run a promotion that they didn't want to run for content they were perfectly willing to publish, just not promote.

The Super Bowl picks and chooses which ads it wants to air every year, no one calls that 1984.

 

[newworldafro]

There is absolute zero evidence that "illegal alien" was the reason the tweets were not promoted. Some of the tweets didn't even have the phrase in them.

The ONLY source for the idea that the phrase "illegal alien" was the reason the tweets were not promoted was CIS itself, and CIS admitted that they just made that accusation up as a "guess" because they don't know the actual reason.






There's no difference between refusing to publish something you don't like, and actually publishing it?

In the end all they did was choose not to run a promotion that they didn't want to run for content they were perfectly willing to publish, just not promote.

The Super Bowl picks and chooses which ads it wants to air every year, no one calls that 1984.

Act like we're not living in a digital age where companies control huge entrance points.

Act like countries aren't censoring speech left and right.

Act like you can't see the trends happening.

Brehs

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Act like we're not living in a digital age where companies control huge entrance points.

Act like countries aren't censoring speech left and right.

Act like you can't see the trends happening.

Brehs

Yet literally none of that happened here.

Act like a social media company not running a racist org's ads is an affront to freedom brehs.

 

[newworldafro]

Yet literally none of that happened here.

Act like a social media company not running a racist org's ads is an affront to freedom brehs.

Act and call anything racist brehs.

Act like people from tribes in Africa, to Asian countries, to right now Venezuela and Brazil/Colombia aren't concerned about the integrity of their borders other undocumented immigrants in their land/country. You gone have the same energy, when I pull up them articles?

Twitter could call Farrakhan racist cause some people think he's racist. You gone have the same energy you have now, when I pull up them tweets and articles?

What if Twitter block Malcolm X or Marcus Harvey or Huey Newton quotables because somebody said their racist? You gone have the same energy?

 

[Maschine_Man]

so dudes in here really think that borders only exist(and existed) in white countries?

fukk it must be nice to be so sheltered

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

Oh the horror!!


And I see we are posting articles from right-wing conspiracy websites.

post shyt articles from some shyt conservative blog like a 50 year old white guy, brehs

 

[Professor Emeritus]

So we're not allowed to called known racists "racist" anymore, it's not PC and it hurts the feelings of right-wingers?

This is the guy who conceived of and founded CIS:

“One of my prime concerns,” he wrote to a large donor, “is about the decline of folks who look like you and me.” He warned a friend that “for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.”

Dr. Tanton acknowledged the shift from his earlier, colorblind arguments, but the “uncomfortable truth,” he wrote, was that those arguments had failed. With a million or more immigrants coming each year — perhaps a third illegally — he warned, “The end may be nearer than we think.”

He corresponded with Sam G. dikkson, a Georgia lawyer for the Ku Klux Klan, who sits on the board of The Barnes Review, a magazine that, among other things, questions “the so-called Holocaust.” Dr. Tanton promoted the work of Jared Taylor, whose magazine, American Renaissance, warned: “America is an increasingly dangerous and disagreeable place because of growing numbers of blacks and Hispanics.” (To Mr. Taylor, Dr. Tanton wrote, “You are saying a lot of things that need to be said.”)

Beyond immigration, he revived an old interest in eugenics, another field trailed by a history of racial and class prejudice.

“Do we leave it to individuals to decide that they are the intelligent ones who should have more kids?” he wrote. “And more troublesome, what about the less intelligent, who logically should have less. Who is going to break the bad news to them?”

"As Whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion? Why don’t non-Hispanic Whites have a group identity, as do Blacks, Jews, Hispanics?"

"I've come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that."

Act and call anything racist brehs.

Act like people from tribes in Africa, to Asian countries, to right now Venezuela and Brazil/Colombia aren't concerned about the integrity of their borders other undocumented immigrants in their land/country. You gone have the same energy, when I pull up them articles?

Twitter could call Farrakhan racist cause some people think he's racist. You gone have the same energy you have now, when I pull up them tweets and articles?

What if Twitter block Malcolm X or Marcus Harvey or Huey Newton quotables because somebody said their racist? You gone have the same energy?

What kind of bullshyt equvilency is this?

The Center for Immigration Studies was set up by John Tanton, a known racist, for the sole purpose of fighting to keep non-white people out of America.


"Tanton set up groups like CIS and FAIR to take an analytical approach to immigration from a Republican point of view so that they can give cover to Republicans who oppose immigration for other reasons." - Republican U.S. Representative Chris Cannon


Tanton was turned into a racist by Camp of the Saints, the same openly racist French novel that Steve Bannon promotes in his White Nationalist arguments

Tanton had something akin to a conversion when he came across The Camp of the Saints, a lurid, racist novel written by Frenchman Jean Raspail that depicts an invasion of the white, Western world by a fleet of starving, dark-skinned refugees.

Tanton helped get the novel published in English and soon was promoting what he considered the book's prophetic argument.

"Their [Third World] 'huddled masses' cast longing eyes on the apparent riches of the industrial west," Tanton wrote in 1975. "The developed countries lie directly in the path of a great storm."

He became a eugenist promoting genetic superiority, even complaining that the Nazis hadn't done the job right:

John Tanton, the architect of the modern day anti-immigrant movement, wrote a paper in 1975 titled, “The Case for Passive Eugenics.” In the paper, Tanton promotes a “passive” form of eugenics, which he clearly considered more palatable to the public. He cited as an example the practice of “restricting childbearing to the years of maximum reproductive efficiency, between the ages of 20 and 35.” In the paper, Tanton also noted, “Hitler’s reign in Nazi Germany did little to advance the discussion of eugenics among sensitive persons.” Tanton later formed a pro-eugenics organization, the Society for Genetic Education (SAGE).

He happily takes money from neo-Nazi eugenicists to promote articles pushing back against non-White immigration:

Between 1985 and 1994, FAIR accepted $1.2 million from the Pioneer Fund — an outfit once described by eugenics expert Barry Mehler as a "neo-Nazi organization, tied to the Nazi eugenics program in the 1930s, that has never wavered in its commitment to eugenics and ideas of human and racial inferiority and superiority."

When the Pioneer link was disclosed in 1988, Tanton, who was then president of FAIR's board, said he knew nothing of Pioneer's unsavory history. Yet his group continued to accept Pioneer grants for another six years, until 1994.

His racist interior emails were exposed and caused some of his own members to quit:

More damaging, however, was the leak, shortly before a 1988 English Only referendum in Arizona, of the so-called WITAN memos written by Tanton and the then-executive director of FAIR, Roger Conner. (WITAN was short for the Old English term "witenangemot," meaning "council of wise men." The memos were meant for Tanton colleagues who met at retreats to discuss immigration.)

The memos were replete with derogatory references to Latinos, reflecting a kind of entrenched bigotry that had only been suspected before. They complained mightily of the high Hispanic birth rate suggesting that Latin American immigrants would bring political corruption to the United States.

The memos included a demographic punchline that depicted Hispanics as hyperactive breeders and revolted many readers: "[P]erhaps this is the first instance in which those with their pants up are going to get caught by those with their pants down."

Linda Chavez, executive director of Tanton creation U.S. English and later a prominent Republican conservative columnist, quit over what she saw as Tanton's bigoted, anti-Latino bias.

So did several well-known U.S. English board members, including advisory board member Walter Cronkite, who called the memos "embarrassing."

By the 1990s he gave up the charade and just started openly publish White Nationalist material in his journals

That summer, The Social Contract Press released a special issue of its journal, The Social Contract (published by Tanton), that was entitled "Europhobia: The Hostility Toward European-Descended Americans."

The lead article was written by John Vinson, head of the Tanton-supported American Immigration Control Foundation, and argued that "multiculturalism" was replacing "successful Euro-American culture" with "dysfunctional Third World cultures."

Tanton himself elaborated on Vinson's remarks, saying an "unwarranted hatred and fear" of white Americans was developing. The main culprits, in Tanton's view, were immigrants and their ideological allies, the "multiculturalists."

The issue was one of the first public manifestations of a collaboration between Tanton's network and open racists. In addition to Tanton and Vinson, the line-up of authors included:

• Sam Francis, who would later become editor of the Citizens Informer, the racist publication of the Council of Conservative Citizens;
  
  
• Lawrence Auster, who also spoke at conferences of American Renaissance, a pseudo-scientific magazine devoted to racial breeding and the idea that blacks are less intelligent; and
  
  
• Joseph Fallon, who writes for American Renaissance.

Later issues of The Social Contract would carry articles by James Lubinskas, an editor of American Renaissance; Derek Turner of Right Now!, a similar British publication; and Michael Masters, the Virginia leader of the Council of Conservative Citizens.

The papers in the Bentley Library also show that Tanton has for decades been at the heart of the white nationalist scene. He has corresponded with Holocaust deniers, former Klan lawyers and the leading white nationalist thinkers of the era. He introduced key FAIR leaders to the president of the Pioneer Fund, a white supremacist group set up to encourage "race betterment," at a 1997 meeting at a private club. He wrote a major funder to encourage her to read the work of a radical anti-Semitic professor — to "give you a new understanding of the Jewish outlook on life" — and suggested that the entire FAIR board discuss the professor's theories on the Jews. He practically worshipped a principal architect of the Immigration Act of 1924 (instituting a national origin quota system and barring Asian immigration), a rabid anti-Semite whose pro-Nazi American Coalition of Patriotic Societies was indicted for sedition in 1942.

Tanton also runs the racist publishing company, The Social Contract Press, which is part of his foundation, U.S. Inc. One special issue of the press’ journal, The Social Contract, was devoted to the theme of "Europhobia: The Hostility Toward European-Descended Americans" and featured a lead article from John Vinson, head of the Tanton-backed hate group, the American Immigration Control Foundation. Vinson argued that multiculturalism was replacing "successful Euro-American culture" with "dysfunctional Third World cultures." Tanton elaborated in his own remarks, decrying the "unwarranted hatred and fear" of whites that he blamed on "multiculturalists" and immigrants.

In 1994, The Social Contract Press republished an infamous racist novel, The Camp of the Saints, along with his wholehearted endorsement and a special afterword from its author saying "the proliferation of other races dooms our race, my race, to extinction." The novel describes "swarthy hordes" of Indian immigrants who take over France, send white women to "a whorehouse for Hindus" and engage in a grotesque orgy of men, women and children. The immigrants are described as "monsters," "grotesque little beggars from the streets of Calcutta" and worse. Unconcerned, Tanton said he was "honored" to republish what he described as an important and "prescient" text. The novel, like the race war fantasy The Turner Diaries, has become a key screed for American white supremacists.

 

[Maschine_Man]

Of course, for the vast majority of both American and European history, White people were able to freely move between all of those countries without documentation. You showed up at the border and signed in, if you even had to cross at an official crossing at all. It was only during the last 100 years, when non-White people began immigrating in meaningful numbers, that prior approval began becoming necessary and quotas against certain nations were set.

Soo....ppl were showing up at ellis island and getting a pass with no problems huh?

jesus christ you dudes are trying way to hard to make something that just didn't exist.

borders and border control was always a thing, with all countries/tribes/etc.
ppl weren't just able to walk in to a place freely and do what they want, but I'll let you keep reinventing history as you wish.

 

[newworldafro]

So we're not allowed to called known racists "racist" anymore, it's not PC and it hurts the feelings of right-wingers?

This is the guy who conceived of and founded CIS:









What kind of bullshyt equvilency is this?

The Center for Immigration Studies was set up by John Tanton, a known racist, for the sole purpose of fighting to keep non-white people out of America.


"Tanton set up groups like CIS and FAIR to take an analytical approach to immigration from a Republican point of view so that they can give cover to Republicans who oppose immigration for other reasons." - Republican U.S. Representative Chris Cannon


Tanton was turned into a racist by Camp of the Saints, the same openly racist French novel that Steve Bannon promotes in his White Nationalist arguments




He became a eugenist promoting genetic superiority, even complaining that the Nazis hadn't done the job right:




He happily takes money from neo-Nazi eugenicists to promote articles pushing back against non-White immigration:




His racist interior emails were exposed and caused some of his own members to quit:




By the 1990s he gave up the charade and just started openly publish White Nationalist material in his journals

Ok. He's racist or exposes white nationalist views. He's not the first or the last.

I didn't post this thread, because of the individual. I posted it because of speech.

Social media defining what speech is acceptable is my issue. If "Illegal alien" is called hate content because a white racist supremacist organization uses it.....is "Illegal alien" hate content when a Black or Hispanic or Asian immigration lawyer uses it too??

It's not about the person. It's the speech.
Y'all not connecting the dots that are right in front of you.

Read 1984. "Memory hole". "Newspeak".

Look at what is happening in China where you can't even criticize your government, yet Apple and Google and Facebook have said they will not only follow the Chinese mandates, but are bringing those instruments of censorship here.

I don't want to see Farrakhan banned because somebody might call him racist because of his views, nor anyone else for that matter.

"Illegal alien" is not like a slanderous terms for Black people, Hispanic, Asian, Arab, gay or whoever...it's a legal term. When Twitter starts saying a legal term is hate speech, then there is no stopping them.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

"Illegal alien" is not like slanderous terms for Black people, Hispanic, Asian, Arab, gay or whoever...it's a legal term. When Twitter starts saying a legal term is hate speech, then there is no stopping them.

TWITTER NEVER SAID THAT OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

EVER!

Bold, all caps, full sized, will that get it through your head yet?

Twitter didn't say one word about "illegal alien" being hate speech or banning the term. Not one word. The ONLY people who made that claim was the racist group CIS, and they admitted later that the claim was just a "guess" they made because Twitter didn't run some of their promotions. In reality, they made the claim to drum up publicity. And you ate it hook, line, and sinker.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

why do these conspiracy guys all end up caping for racists?

y'all run out of entertaining light hearted conspiracy shyt?