'Quitting' Twitter Is The New Republican Thirst Trap
Proclaiming to all the world that they’ll be quitting this social media app or that one
has become the equivalent of a Republican thirst trap, a transparently desperate attempt to draw eyes and commentary from mainstream media. They know “conservative censorship” on Twitter and Facebook isn’t real, that no one is actually going to use any of these stupidly named conservative apps, and that however much they might rail against mainstream social media platforms, they rely on them. Let’s face it: It’s hard to “trigger” liberals who noticeably aren’t around on Gettr.
The irony of this is that despite mostly rich, white conservatives claiming liberal social media is targeting them, these same platforms have taken little to no action to protect people of color, women, LGBTQ people and other marginalized groups from routine harassment and death threats they face. One need only read the cursed replies to tweets by Reps. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib or Ocasio-Cortez to see how endemic and unchecked racism, misogyny and hate speech are on the website.
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