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Both apologized. Sarah's were taken out of context.

>“We hired Sarah Jeong because of the exceptional work she has done … her journalism and the fact that she is a young Asian woman have made her a subject of frequent online harassment. For a period of time she responded to that harassment by imitating the rhetoric of her harassers,” The Times said in a statement. “She regrets it, and The Times does not condone it.”

https://youtu.be/MMcSXNKLY7I

0:24

https://youtu.be/To91BJGKr5I

10:30

>Please find me one example of a prominent Twitter Leftist being banned for saying something "hateful", whatever that means

https://dailycaller.com/2018/02/28/antifa-banned-twitter-tex...

Though as I guess someone on the left side of the political spectrum, I would be as offended to be associated with antifa as a fiscal conservative would be to be associated with Alex Jones.



Her tweets were taken out of context? No. She tried to justify her racism by saying white people had done mean things to her on the internet in the past. That's an incredibly broken mindset and accepting her attempted justification just perpetuates racism. But it's against white people so I guess that's not a big deal.

Also I said prominent, the conservatives I mentioned each had around 1 million followers. That Antifa student group, orders of magnitude less.


Out of curiosity, why is it always the pizzagate level conspiracy theorists that keep threatening to blow up youtube? https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-fan-arrested-for-threate...


Well, I don't have an answer for you for why prominent "leftists" (we may disagree on definition of this term) do not violate the Twitter ToS at quite the frequency of conservatives.




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