High noon
Twitter has told “Sheriff” David Clarke to knock it off with the violent threats.
Former Milwaukee Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr., a vocal surrogate for President Donald Trump on the campaign trail, was temporarily blocked from tweeting after Twitter users’ complaints alerted the company that three of his messages violated the terms of service, CNN has learned.
Clarke was placed in read-only mode until he deleted three tweets that seemed to call for violence against members of the media.
In one of them, which has since been deleted, Clarke told his followers, “When LYING LIB MEDIA makes up MAKE NEWS to smear me, the ANTIDOTE is to go right at them. Punch them in the nose & MAKE THEM TASTE THEIR OWN BLOOD. Nothing gets a bully like LYING LIB MEDIA”S attention better than to give them a taste of their own blood #neverbackdown.”
Good. I reported that one. I don’t report stuff on Twitter, but when it’s a law enforcement official, current or former? That’s different.
One Twitter user who complained about Clarke shared with CNN the email response from Twitter in which the company stated, “We have reviewed the account you reported and have locked it because we found it to be in violation of the Twitter Rules:
https://support.twitter.com/articles/18311. If the account owner complies with our requested actions and stated policies, the account will be unlocked.”
This is good because he was tweeting boasts about the “snowflakes” reporting him and how we FAILED neener-neener.
Clarke did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment.
He tweeted about the Twitter reports, writing, “I know I’m winning. Some snowflake lib made a complaint to Twitter because of my earlier tweet about black kids being exploited by lefty failed policies at Ballou High School. I said in my tweet, this CRAP is criminal. Twitter said no violation of rules. Diaper change time.”
Happy new year, Mr. Clarke.
So I guess Twitter doesn’t consider Clarke “newsworthy” enough to leave him alone, like they do Trump. Maybe if he attains a higher office?
Off topic, but I really feel the need to say this somewhere, and a left wing, feminist blog seems like a reasonable place. I may get some considered discussion explaining how and why I’m wrong.
I’m appalled by the left wing and feminist response to the situation in Iran. I have checked a number of feminist and left wing twitter accounts and blogs and Iran is not mentioned at all. As of two days ago, none of the bloggers at FTB had mentioned it. I didn’t check The Orbit blogs individually, but none of the postings on the front page alluded to it. Laurie Penny, The Women’s March, Jessica Valenti, Van Badham, Clementine Ford and Jane Caro (I’m in Australia) have all seen fit to ignore it. Of course, people are free to comment on whatever they want, but you might think that when people peacefully protest against a misogynistic theocracy it would be of some interest to atheists and feminists. Apparently not to many of them.
This exemplifies my problem with the modern left. Universalism is a thing of the past. What is most important now is to emphasise how appalling is the West in general and the United States in particular. This is the left’s version of American exceptionalism. The US is exceptionally bad.
When modern leftists do comment on Iran, the results can be laughable. An article in The Huffington Post, for example, explains that there is NO DIFFERENCE (all caps in the tweet from the author linking to the article) between the Iranian mullahs and Trump. Donald Trump is a dangerous fool, but to see no difference between the US and Iran in the way that the two treat their citizens is to be utterly blinded by ideology.
I know that there is little we can do to assist the Iranian protesters. I know that what follows the mullahs could be worst. Anyone who is optimistic about secular liberalism taking hold in the Middle East any time soon is at the very least naive, but is a “You go Iranians, we’re rooting for you.” too much to ask?
Carmichael @#2
Did you see this post?
http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2017/hijab-on-a-stick/
Your Name’s not Bruce? @#3
Yes I did. It attracted a single comment.
In my opinion Ophelia is one of the better feminists when it comes to discussions of the problems associated with Islam and misogyny. That’s one reason I put my comment here. But the fact that Ophelia put up a post on the topic doesn’t change the fact that all the other atheists and feminists have failed to do so.
We noticed, but Islamists in Iran aren’t the threat to Americans that Trump and his Christofascist pals are.
Gotta focus on the shitty Iron Age religion that presents the most clear an present danger…
Blood Knight in Sour Armor @#5
Maybe. It’s a perspective that a lot of people put forward. But I don’t think that really explains it.
For one thing, the blogs and Twitter accounts I mentioned don’t just focus on Trump. They focus on other things as well, and those things include more than just “his Christofascist pals”. And is it really only possible to have one concern at a time?
It also doesn’t explain why the non-Americans haven’t said anything.
Anyway, I’m glad you noticed. It’s not just me then.
Carmichael, just because there are no posts but one on that hijab post doesn’t mean we aren’t thinking about it. Often I do not post on those simply because I cannot think of anything to add to the eloquence of the protestor. Many of us are deeply involved in international issues, but sometimes there isn’t much to say. I do think the bloggers should at least point it out, since so many people get their news from blogs these days, but the failure to comment on it can come from a lack of experience, therefore not knowing what to say, then from a lack of empathy or acknowledgment. Could we cheer the woman on? Of course. But perhaps we are, even if we don’t know what to say without sounding like an oblivious westerner trying to comprehend the difficulties people face in other cultures. I have returned to that post frequently, admiring the protestors, and wondering how many women here would have the bravery to do the same in the face of potentially lethal reprisals. But I am simply at a loss to say anything, because I have little idea exactly what to say, and everything I think of sounds oblivious even to my own ears…though I suppose what I wrote just now would probably work nicely.
I haven’t paid as much attention to the Iran protests as I’d have liked to though, it’s true. It’s been bothering me too. Trump takes up way too much oxygen.
That is, he takes up too much oxygen in absolute terms…but since he is where he is, I think paying a lot of attention to him is only reasonable. He shouldn’t be where he is, but he is, so I feel the need to annotate his being there.
But it does bother me that he pushes out other subjects.
He elbows out other world leaders, why not other subjects? Trump needs attention because he is a two-year-old in spirit.
Except that normally that’s a reason to ignore people rather than pay attention to them. It’s all so perverse…
Yeah, I know. Perversity and Donald just seem to go hand in hand…