Platform Manipulation: When Woke Racists Abuse Twitter
Candace Owens recently posted the above picture with Kanye West where they are wearing “White Lives Matter” apparel. One might wonder why such sentiments are necessary for which it’s important to consider two foolish ideas that have gained prominence:
Minorities can not be racist
White people can not experience racism.
Statements like “All Lives Matter” or “White Lives Matter” shouldn’t need a justification but if one is needed then look no further than observing how Twitter reacts to anti-white racism occurring on its platform.
BIPOC Hate Tweets (BPHT) is an account that simply screenshots hateful twitter content and shares it on their page akin to Defiant Ls. BPHT and other accounts of a similar nature have been banned on several occasions due to Woke lobbyists campaigning for the silencing of accounts they disagree with.
The Twitter Rules state:
You may not engage in the targeted harassment of someone, or incite other people to do so. We consider abusive behavior an attempt to harass, intimidate, or silence someone else’s voice.
Despite the clear statement that attempts to “silence someone else’s voice” being against the Twitter Terms of Service, the social media site has repeatedly acted in the interests of bad actors who have formed mass reporting campaigns against BPHT to manipulate the Twitter platform.
Below are some examples of Woke accounts stirring up mobs to mass report BPHT in attempts to manipulate the Twitter platform to enact unjust bans.
Not only is Twitter being manipulated by Woke Racists through mass reporting campaigns, but the platform is also failing to uphold its rules protecting individuals from racist rhetoric when Whites are the targets of such rhetoric. The Twitter rules on matters of abuse also state:
We will review and take enforcement action against accounts that target an individual, group of people, or a protected category with any of the following behavior in their profile information, i.e., usernames, display names, or profile bios:
Violent threats
Abusive slurs, epithets, racist, or sexist tropes
Abusive content that reduces someone to less than human
Content that incites fear
Which is happening and enabled as documented. BPHT was documenting anti-white racism, which Twitter should be grateful for since a single independent contributor was doing the hard work of uncovering hateful individuals on the platform. Rather than being grateful for the work being done to uncover Woke Racism or cracking down on the Woke Racism itself, Twitter decided to punish BPHT on several occasions which would be unthinkable if Whites were perpetrators acting against other racial groups. Twitter’s inconsistent enforcement of its own TOS has led to the emergence of a prisoner’s dilemma.
Incentives now exist for all entities using Twitter to act in violation of the TOS by engaging in coordinated spam reporting campaigns to prevent opposition forces from gaining an advantage in the number of voices active on the platform. Twitter has every right to draft rules for moderation purposes but these rules should be enforced consistently if the platform wishes to be taken seriously and to curtail the incentive structure of the prisoners’ dilemma. Given that Twitter has exerted more effort into banning individuals documenting Woke Racism rather than acting on the Woke Racism itself, it seems safe to assume that the rules are not, in fact, being enforced consistently.
Appendix
Although the core of this article focused on the platform abuse directed at Bipoc Hate Tweets, we are also attaching samples of coordinated spam reporting campaigns directed at other accounts.
