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by giraffe_lady 1183 days ago
There's a lot more overt racism now!
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A lot more overt racism? You could always search "white people" and find plenty of dark and nasty things, including from very public people who get plenty of praise for it. Overt and celebrated racism has always had a home on Twitter, and if anything there seems to be somewhat less of it.
If you think the problem with racism on twitter is people being mean to white folks you are probably thrilled with the changes yes.
The difference is I'm of the somehow-rare (on Twitter at least) opinion that ALL racism is a problem.
Well the question is, do you want a town square or do you want a gated community? Town squares have a lot of filth. To filter it out is to pretend that humanity is something that it isn’t.

You can filter it out in your own Twitter by following people you like.

You can have a town square without nazis actually it turns out if you want to which obviously we don't right?
Town squares have racists, hedonists, nihilists, globalists, misanthropists, moralists, pacifists, anarchists, theologists and everything else. The only new thing about this town square is that everyone has a megaphone. It’s up to you to find the crowd you want.

Some of the things you don’t tolerate are benign to others. And some of the things you like are cancerous to others.