Two days ago, this blog linked to Katie Hopkins’s column at
Front Page mag; her column was about the celebrations marking the UK's Brexit from the EU. It was a thoughtful and heartfelt report. And
today, we read Robert Spencer’s report at Front Page that “Twitter Suspends Katie
Hopkins, and you’re next”:
Twitter has suspended UK's
courageous freedom fighter Katie Hopkins, who had a million followers on the
platform, and one thing is certain: she will not be the last foe of jihad
violence and Sharia oppression who is banned from Twitter. It’s all about
silencing “hate,” you see. But the banning of Katie Hopkins illustrates yet
again that for the Left, there is good “hate” and there is bad “hate.”
According to the UK’s Independent,
“Twitter said that Ms Hopkins had been temporarily locked out of her account
for violating the site’s hateful-conduct policy, which bans the promotion
of violence or inciting harm on the basis of race, religion, national
origin or gender identity.”
Twitter has erased all but a
handful of Hopkins’ tweets, so it’s impossible to tell what the offending
tweets were, but it is abundantly clear at this point that for Leftist
guardians of acceptable thought nowadays, virtually any dissent from the Left’s
agenda will be read as “the promotion of violence or inciting harm on the basis
of race, religion, national origin or gender identity.” While “promotion
of violence” is fairly easy to spot, “inciting harm” can be seen in any
critical word.
And then the offender has to go.
Full column is here. And of course, this is not a one-off.
Many conservative voices, such as Pamela Geller, Dennis Prager’s Prager University,
James O’Keefe of Project Veritas, and Michelle Malkin (article at the link includes details on
de-platforming and de-monetizing), have been censored on Twitter, Facebook, on campuses, on PayPal, etc. As Robert Spencer warned: we’re next.
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