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25 Oct 2021, 8:07 pm

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rachel-levine-jim-banks-suspended-twitter-misgendering/#app

Rep. Banks is worse than a pedophile!

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25 Oct 2021, 8:09 pm

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rachel-levine-jim-banks-suspended-twitter-misgendering/#app

Rep. Banks is worse than a pedophile!

He certainly cares only for Big Business.

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26 Oct 2021, 12:27 am

Fnord wrote:

Tim_Tex wrote:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rachel-levine-jim-banks-suspended-twitter-misgendering/#app

Rep. Banks is worse than a pedophile!

He certainly cares only for Big Business.

All I know is that there is absolutely nothing worse than a bigot.

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26 Oct 2021, 8:37 am

Tim_Tex wrote:

Fnord wrote:

Tim_Tex wrote:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rachel-levine-jim-banks-suspended-twitter-misgendering/#app

Rep. Banks is worse than a pedophile!

He certainly cares only for Big Business.

All I know is that there is absolutely nothing worse than a bigot.

We could argue which is worse -- bigots or pedos -- but Jim Banks' comments and voting history clearly define him as anti-family, anti-poor, anti-privacy, anti-rights, and anti-science.

Again, the only thing he cares for is Big Business.

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26 Oct 2021, 10:37 am

Another Trumpkin blaming "big tech" for their own (wilful?) ignorance of a site's rules of behavior. :roll:
It's not difficult, and nothing more than: when posting here this is how you must behave. Rather like "when you're in my house you must not set fire to the furniture".

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By referring to Levine as a man, Banks violated Twitter's "hateful conduct policy," which prohibits the promotion of "violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease."

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26 Oct 2021, 10:52 am

Yeah, I'm gonna say being a pedophile is worse than being a bigot.

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26 Oct 2021, 10:55 am

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Yeah, I'm gonna say being a pedophile is worse than being a bigot.

They are both only two slightly different grades of the same slime.

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26 Oct 2021, 11:30 am

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Yeah, I'm gonna say being a pedophile is worse than being a bigot.

They are both only two slightly different grades of the same slime.

I have a really hard problem making a moral equivalence between raping children and hating others for the color of their skin, race, etc.

Both are terrible, but one is way more terrible than the other.

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26 Oct 2021, 4:37 pm

It's truly horrible being suspended from Twitter... and then having a second account to complain about being suspended from Twitter... and other websites available that you can continue to express your opinions on... We live in a third world, authoritarian hellscape. /sarcasm

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26 Oct 2021, 4:43 pm

So ... Jim Banks was suspended from Twitter, huh?

Fascinating...

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26 Oct 2021, 10:51 pm

Banks violated Twitter's "hateful conduct policy," which prohibits the promotion of "violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease."

It's funny how the GOP are so pedantic about the rule of law and the constitution but happily break laws/policies/ethics/conduct when it suits them

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26 Oct 2021, 11:02 pm

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And as usual, he will claim it as proof that white, straight, cis, Christian males are being "persecuted". If he were in Sweden, he would be in jail.

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26 Oct 2021, 11:29 pm

Interesting how some insults are more equal than others; misgendering a straight person isn't any kind of hate crime, though it can be insulting (think 80s drill instructor), but somehow it can carry jail time in some countries if directed at a trans person.

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26 Oct 2021, 11:52 pm

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It’s because LGBT people are far more likely to be bullied or cyberbullied than any other group. As such, some are literally one hurt feeling away from suicide.

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27 Oct 2021, 1:17 am

Tim_Tex wrote:

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It’s because LGBT people are far more likely to be bullied or cyberbullied than any other group. As such, some are literally one hurt feeling away from suicide.

Don't forget straight people have never been murdered because someone thought they were a different sex than they were.

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League_Girl wrote:

Tim_Tex wrote:

Dox47 wrote:

It’s because LGBT people are far more likely to be bullied or cyberbullied than any other group. As such, some are literally one hurt feeling away from suicide.

Don't forget straight people have never been murdered because someone thought they were a different sex than they were.

What are you talking about?

Straight cisgender people have murdered other straight cisgender people because they thought the murder victim was another gender?

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