A goy professor tells me: So, how do whites move to explicit identity instead of implicit identity? My internal response to all the alarmism from Haaretz & elsewhere has been to reply, “but you (Jewish Americans) don’t know what it’s like to be *only* American.”
But from there I can hear a Jew say, “well then just participate!–join Judaism, or Catholicism, if you have to.” But the thing is, there aren’t really “Catholic-Americans” the way there are Jewish-Americans. They’re not tribal. And then if I try to be explicitly “white-American” I face the prospect of losing my job and being socially exiled… AND even whites would shun me at that point. So I’m fated to be an exile.
The first paragraph of WEB DuBois’ “Souls of Black Folks,” where he asks famously, “what does it feel like to be a problem?” Ironically, in 2016, only white men know the answer to that.
Tacitus on Jews. Why wasn't the temple open for multicultural people? I'm sure when we rebuild it, it'll be diverse. pic.twitter.com/sRd0lU3aq4
— lukeford (@lukeford) November 16, 2016
Richard Spencer advocates for my people, doesn't hate anyone, is a gentleman, and a friend, and Twitter suspended him.
— P. D. Mangan ?? (@Mangan150) November 16, 2016
So if people can’t successfully sue to restore their social media accounts, that leaves them which options? When you back a dog into a corner, it reacts with fury. Twitter is backing the Alt-Right into a corner. Twitter, Google (has blackballed this website from its search results since Aug. 17 even though its own webmaster tools say this site is clean), Facebook, Instagram and all the big tech companies have colluded to rig the game against people who support Trump, the president elect of the United States.
Trump ditched press pool. And yes, we are cheering. Show them the respect they deserve, God-Emperor Ascendant. Which is precisely none.
— Supreme Dark Lord? (@voxday) November 16, 2016
Daily Caller: Twitter Initiates Mass Purge Of Alt-Right Accounts Following Trump Victory
Twitter has initiated a major purge of accounts associated with the alt-right exactly a week after GOP President-elect Donald Trump’s stunning electoral victory.
One of the first and most prominent accounts caught up in the deletion is Richard Spencer, president and director of the National Policy Institute, an alt-right think tank focused on white identity and related policy issues.
Twitter removed Spencer’s verified account, formerly available at @RichardBSpencer, Tuesday evening.
“This is corporate Stalinism,” Richard Spencer told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Twitter is trying to airbrush the Alt Right out of existence. They’re clearly afraid. They will fail!”
Not only did Twitter kill Spencer’s personal account, but Twitter also suspended the National Policy Institute’s official account (@npiamerica) and its online magazine (@RadixJournal), in addition to a separate book publishing company run by Spencer called Washington Summit Publishers (@washsummit).
The ban took place the same day Spencer appeared on NPR and The Daily Show.
Numerous Twitter users expressed shock at the suspension, while others tried to come up with explanations for the purge.
Paul Town, one of the alt-right trolls responsible for feeding Olivia Nuzzi at The Daily Beast a false and outlandish narrative on how Pepe the cartoon frog came to be associated with white nationalism, was also suspended.
Other suspended users, among many, include Pax Dickinson, Ricky Vaughn and John Rivers — all notable and prominent alt-right accounts.
Several Twitter users noted that the mass bans could be a result of new reporting features the company added to prevent “hate against a race, religion, gender, or orientation,” as part of a policy change.
The move by Twitter threatens to diminish the explosive power of the alt-right, which has made use of Twitter to brutally troll journalists and political pundits, in addition to supporting Trump and spreading its political philosophy in front of millions of people.
Just last week, Amelia Tait at New Statesman noted that the alt-right’s influence has surged, largely in part due to its use of social media networks. As she put it, the “alt-right – a new political movement of individuals with racist and misogynist viewpoints, who exist primarily on the internet – have thrived under Trump’s candidacy, and remained mostly unchecked by social media giants.”
Tait argued that social media giants need to “improve the way they deal with trolls, vitriol, and death threats on their sites.”
Charlie Warzel at BuzzFeed News recently made the case that Twitter was essential to Trump’s wildly successful campaign and has also resulted in the “empowerment of the insurgent political movement of the alt-right who, through a coordinated effort of trolling and online organization, drove enthusiasm and momentum against the establishment and for Trump.”
While Twitter has in the past slowly cracked down on accounts near the alt-right, such as those of WeSearchr CEO Chuck Johnson and journalist Milo Yiannopoulos, the major purge Tuesday evening of prominent alt-right accounts is so far unprecedented.
In response to the purges, many alt-right users are heading over to Gab, a Twitter substitute platform with a much more aggressive free speech policy.
