‘Happy Winter Solstice! I wanted to point out an important point of systemic racism in this evil United States culture of racism, sexism, and xenophobia that you may have overlooked, although it is all around you, promoting microaggressions against womyn and all people of color everywhere. After reading this article, you will have no justification for continuing use of this racist and sexist language, and you should immediately cancel anyone you know who continues to do so. You must start going into restaurants, malls, and other random places, accosting people, and finding out if they are fascists who refuse to cancel these great evils that you are now woke to. If they do not immediately agree with you, hit them in the face, vandalize their car, and take their wallet, as Antifa would explain is the ONLY proper response. What do I refer to, you ask? What could have been missed in the gazillion mandatory diversity training sessions at work, in the now ubiquitous political brainwashing everywhere? I refer to the racist, sexist, and fascist language of the SNOWMAN.
The Snowman—universal symbol of patriarchy, bigotry, and fascist, racist, sexist hate.
Note, first of all, the sexism here—it is the snowMAN. Snowwomen, and non-binary, LGBTQ+ snow persuns, are vastly underrepresented minorities in this cold, hard world. You must immediately cease referring to the patriarchal term “snowman” and speak, instead of “snow persuns.” Certainly children—excuse me, those who identify as being in the age group whose age assigned at birth is zero/newborn—should not be encouraged to build or play with snowmen. At the very least, all snowmen should be built with a frown instead of a smile, and with frozen tears or icicles of contrition for the sexist male privilege into which they have been ushered, and a taller, stronger, happy, Biden-Harris snowwomyn should be built next to any snowman.
The snowwoman—not sexist like the snowman, but still racist and white supremacist
Note as well, that snowmen—and even snowwomyn—are overwhelmingly white. Diversity in snowpersuns is almost entirely lacking. White snowmen should be frozen out high-level colleges and job opportunities attractive to them, whether in refrigeration, arctic travel, or ice cream sales, until snowpersuns of color, and snowpersuns of every kind of racial, gender, and sexual minority, are overrepresented in every income bracket of our systemically racist, sexist, and fascist nation, and there are equal numbers of diverse snowpersuns found in winter in North Dakota and in summer in Arizona.
Don’t try to cover your hate with the argument that snowpersuns are white because snow is white—it’s just nature. That’s the same type of old fascist argument people make against transgender rights when they claim there are only men and women—it’s just nature. No, “nature” is just a social construct, just like “men,” “women,” and the color of snow. This does not need to be proven—everyone that is woke knows it, and if you deny it you are giving in to white privilege and are just a RACIST SEXIST FASCIST. Q. E. D.
A LGBTQ+ Non-Binary, Socialist/Communist,
Snowbeing of Color Snowpersun—
the ONLY acceptable alternative for tolerant persuns.
(No picture included because there aren’t any yet.)
I hope that you are now woke to the great evil of building, encouraging children to play with, or in any way supporting the racist and sexist evil of the SNOWMAN. Dear reader, if you have every used such racist and sexist language, please send me a check of no less than $10,000 for every time you have supported patriarchy with this now cancelled term, to show that you are now fully in on diversity, inclusion and tolerance. I will donate the appropriate portion of your guilt offering to our local Antifa chapter while keeping the rest for myself. If you do not, I will burn your house down to show what tolerant people do to intolerant fascists like you.
Could this occur in your country? Just take a moment and think about what many politicians and bureaucrats truly think about Christianity. Now, you just might begin to imagine how this could happen to you!
‘According to Statistics Norway, 54, 592 children received care measures from child welfare services in Norway in 2019 alone. That represents nearly 3% of the children in Norway. Nearly 20% of those involved Norwegian-born children to immigrant parents. These statistics represent real families and real-life trauma for everyone involved.
In the fall of 2015, the five children of Ruth and Marius Bodnariu became part of these statistics when they were separated from their parents, their friends and school, and from each other into 3 different households, hours apart from each other. In fact, in many ways, the Bodnarius have become the very symbol of Norway’s staggering child welfare statistics.
This week, five years on from the horrible events of 2015/2016, which included being separated from their children and being forced to leave family, careers, friends and their home, the European Court of Human Rights has dismissed their challenge after four years of international litigation on the basis that the family had not availed themselves of possible domestic remedies for damages after the family was reunited and fled to Romania.
The decision is a blow to the family, who argued before the European Court of Human Rights that any further remedies in Norway were illusory at best. They would not risk further punishment and separation of the family by going back into the system that had so ill-treated them, especially after all of the international media attention the case had garnered. Asking them to go back into the proverbial lion’s den would have been cruel, and something Ruth and Marius Bodnariu would never put their children through.
The Bodnariu family
On paper, Ruth and Marius Bodnariu did everything right, making the ordeal they suffered all the more shocking.
By all accounts, Ruth and Marius are impressive people. Marius, who is of Romanian heritage, has an Engineering Degree in Applied Informatics with a Master’s Degree in Computer Networks. Ruth is a Pediatric Nurse specialising in Psychology for children and youth. They are educated, loving and responsible parents who, in 2015, had two daughters and three sons, the youngest being just three months old and still breast feeding.
From early in their marriage, Marius and Ruth decided that their “ultimate career” was to be parents and raise a family; to have children and invest in them. In 2005, when Ruth was pregnant with their first child, the couple left Romania to start a new life on a farm in Redal, on the west coast of Norway. Redal and its surrounding villages together consist of 200 families, and collectively form a distinct cultural region of Norway.
Shortly after their first child was born in 2006, Marius began working in Forde’s City Hall. Within one year he was put in charge of the IT department in all ten of the village schools. Following expansion, he became responsible for the entire school district covering 10 communities and 50 schools. In 2007, Ruth commenced employment in the paediatric ward of Forde Central Hospital.
Marius and Ruth raised their children in a loving, active and engaging environment. They involved their children in a wide range of activities including fishing, taking care of animals, woodworking, drawing, painting, and music.
Character and fitness
The Bodnarius were an incredibly tight knit family. Ruth’s parents lived in a neighbouring house and were very much a part of the children’s lives. All of the people interviewed by child welfare officials and the police, including colleagues, neighbours and the extended family had nothing but praise for the family.
Of the 122 medical visits the children collectively underwent from their birth until their being taken into custody, not once was there ever an inference that the children were anything but deeply loved and cared for. Nor did tests following the children’s being taken into care provide any evidence of abuse.
Child welfare services intervene
On 30 September 2015, the headteacher at the school where several of the Bodnariu children attended sent a letter to the Department of Culture which contained the written notes of two conversations had by the school with Ruth and Marius’ daughters. The notes reflected that the girls mentioned receiving occasional spankings at home. This letter was forwarded by the Department of Culture to the Barnevernet (Child Welfare Services) on 8 October. After receiving the letter, the Barnevernet contacted the school headteacher to request a detailed report of the complaint. The headteacher highlighted the family’s strong Christian beliefs and suggested that this may retard the children’s development.
Nevertheless, the headteacher believed Ruth and Marius to be good and loving parents. So much so, that when Child Welfare Services attempted to take the Bodnarius’ two daughters from the school yard, she refused them entry onto the school property and would not identify who the children were.
Guilty until proven innocent
Nonetheless, the children were taken that day without prior notification of the family and questioned without any family member, legal representative or anyone they at least could trust being present on the parent’s behalf. The children, just wanting to go home, gave their interrogators the information they thought they wanted to hear. This pattern continued. During a police interrogation, one of the children even asked in her frustration what else did they want her to make up.
As a result of the interviews, the children, including their youngest who was still being breastfed, were taken from them. Norwegian officials continued to repeat the mantra that the children must be believed, even when much of what was said was contradictory or demonstrably false.
In the investigation notes obtained by the family at trial during discovery, the lead investigator even expresses her own doubts that the children are making up the allegations but then suggests that they must nonetheless be true because a Christian upbringing is inherently violent.
Religious illiteracy and cultural intolerance
The Bodnarius’ casefile is replete with evidence of animus and negative pre-conceptions towards the family. One social worker report goes so far as to describe how Mr Bodnariu was praying at a supervised meeting with his son, and made the exclamation: “After a while he (the father) puts himself on his knees and his body (upper part) over the sofa, he might pray!” The children were also never taken to church once while in foster care. They were forbidden from speaking Romanian with each other, and Marius was required to sign a protocol agreeing not to speak Romanian with the children as a condition of being able to have supervised visits with the family.
Reunification
After seven months of separation, the family was finally reunited following court cases in Norway. For their own safety, and fearing further action by Norwegian officials because of the family’s growing grassroots popularity in Norway and internationally, the family fled their home in Norway to relocate in Romania.
The family, working with international lawyer Paul Susman, who coordinated the legal efforts of the case from its beginnings, contacted the Christian Legal Centre for assistance with proceedings at the European Court of Human Rights. Together, over the course of the last four years, we took up their cause before the highest human rights court in Europe. So strong was the international support for the family that the governments of Slovakia, Romania and the Czech Republic all intervened in the case on the family’s behalf.
Always faithful
Throughout this entire ordeal the family has remained true to their faith and to each other. Theirs was a case worth fighting. The Bodnarius, in all of their humility, are clear that they took this case forward for the goal of helping other families in Norway going through the same thing.
For my part, I can only say what an honour it was to represent and to get to know this amazing family. My prayer is that this case and all the attention it has attracted, having happened on the grandest legal stage of them all, will finally motivate Norway to take the necessary measures to prevent similar nightmares happening to other families. The time for change is now.’https://christianconcern.com/news/a-familys-four-year-european-legal-challenge-ends/
‘TOYOTA CHIEF : ELECTRIC CARS OVER-HYPED, COULD COST HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS AND MAKE CARS UNAFFORDABLE FOR AVERAGE PEOPLE But that is what the ‘Great Reset’ is all about – a future where private cars are only for the elites. And since cars are the one greatest symbols of freedom, under the Great Reset, we can’t let average people have them. https://www.wsj.com/…/toyotas-chief-says-electric…TOKYO— Toyota Motor Corp.’s leader criticized what he described as excessive hype over electric vehicles, saying advocates failed to consider the carbon emitted by generating electricity and the costs of an EV transition. Toyota President Akio Toyoda said Japan would run out of electricity in the summer if all cars were running on electric power. The infrastructure needed to support a fleet consisting entirely of EVs would cost Japan between ¥14 trillion and ¥37 trillion, the equivalent of $135 billion to $358 billion, he said. “When politicians are out there saying, ‘Let’s get rid of all cars using gasoline,’ do they understand this?” Mr. Toyoda said Thursday at a year-end news conference in his capacity as chairman of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association. He said if Japan is too hasty in banning gasoline-powered cars, “the current business model of the car industry is going to collapse,” causing the loss of millions of jobs.’https://www.facebook.com/CraigKellyMP
‘YES – HE IS GOING TO BE ELECTED IF THE POWERS THAT BE WANT IT. IT IS LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO DEFEAT UNLIMITED FAKE VOTES, UNLIMITED FAKE ELECTRONIC VOTES AND REPUBLICANS NOT ALLOWED TO POLL WATCH AND ACTUALLY SEE THE VOTES AND BE ABLE TO CONTEST. THE ELECTION IS A SCAM AND THE CORRUPT GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA IS ALLOWING IT. HE CAN CALL A SPECIAL SESSION TO STOP THE FAKE VOTES NOW – BUT IS OBVIOUSLY PAID OFF BY SOMEONE, CHINA, ACCORDING TO LIN WOOD.’ https://generaldispatch.whatfinger.com/the-next-senator-of-georgia-raphael-warnock-communist-is-still-at-it/
Raphael Warnock again refused to disavow his past comments praising Fidel Castro and attacking the military, when he appeared on the View on 12/17/2020.
In January 2021 ‘Take your warmest life memories with you if and when the inauguration of ‘Temporary President’ Joe Biden makes way for the opening of the Gates of Hell—the Gulag—for all of humanity.
Memories are all the masses will have left—and over time the same bolsheviks who openly stole the 2020 Election will steal those too, whenever they find the way.
The saddest part about going into the Gulag is that your children and grandchildren with all the innocent toys of childhood are going with you, leaving you to wonder what will happen to them after you’re gone.
The “useful idiots” of the Communist bolsheviks —Joker Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) et al—will be free to disperse misery on the masses—at least for awhile.
All of the above went along with the Communist globalists—even while knowing that the first thing the regime mandates is getting rid of the useful idiots who brought them into power.
Much as so very many do not wish to hear it, government-mandated lockdowns were only the waiting room for the coming Gulag.
In Russian accents they say: “No God in Gulag”.
No hope, no change, as soon as the last of Hillary’s deplorables have been rounded up.
During the past 10 months, authorities wanted to assure themselves that there would be no public uprising over the lockdowns—and there never really was.
In this dark new era of the Great Reset, Washington power brokers will come at you live streamed over the ‘Net. No need for town halls while everyone’s in lockdown watching television.
Life Before Gulag (LBG) will be wiped out as part of the Cancel Culture, along with the American Dream cherished by millions in many other nations.’
‘Biden’s presidency will be short-lived, as he passes the presidential mantle on to Kamala Harris before stumbling off the world stage on his broken foot, but a live streamed Harris is only a front for Barack Hussein Obama, who sees her as his long-coveted Third Term.
But while the masses are confined to the new Lock Down, known as the Gulag, all of those who brought the Gulag about, will soon disappear as the Communists ‘disappear’ all their useful idiots.
Solzhenitsyn got out of the Gulag Archipelago—but only after years of unimaginable inhumane torment. The reason for his ultimate survival was that he never stopped thinking for himself.
Captives of the modern-day Gulag lost that ability by reading the purloined news and a steady diet of cable television.
Hard to believe that while waiting for the gates to shut behind all those coming into the Gulag, they were reading stories about how so-and-so looked “stunning” in a bikini at age fill-in-the-blank, or that Melania Trump broke the rules by reading to children without wearing a mask.
Tragic beyond belief that, thanks to the thieving Democrat Obama holdovers and their surrogate media, the masses never saw—or even suspected—that the Gulag was coming down the pike.
It will someday be the Irony of Ironies that In the fullness of time, all of those who bought into the visceral hatred of President Donald J. Trump will hate far more Every Day Life in the Gulag.
By that time, not a single soul trapped in the Gulag will be saying “Thanks for leaving us here”.
Time Magazine’s Person of the Year goes to two Leftist/Marxist/Commies who ain’t my President or Vice President. YES, ‘For the first time in the magazine’s history, Time has awarded Person of the Year not just to a president-elect but also to a vice president-elect.
The publication did not splinter the historic laurel to Joe Biden’s running mate thanks to her ability to deliver a crucial state — the departing senator’s state of California has proven the bluest in the union for decades — but rather due to the #historic nature of Kamala Harris’s success.
Nobody doubts the monumental success of what Harris’s rapid rise represents. Harris herself sits at the intersection of American stories finally triumphant —the daughter of immigrants, both Asian American and black, and the Baptist wife of a Jewish husband waiting in the wings to support the second-ever Catholic to occupy the Oval Office in our nation’s history.
But Biden is perhaps the more spectacular figure, don’t you think? He’s the first Democrat in nearly 30 years to unseat a first-term incumbent, and he clobbered a field of dozens of brilliant and diverse liberals without any favors from the mainstream media. In fact, his own eventual second in command was already cold on the electoral scrap heap by the time the election had gotten to Iowa.
In another narrative, Biden is the septuagenarian chosen by tens of millions specifically because they knew he was the only one temperamentally and tactically capable of beating the Bad Orange Man. Despite the worst inclinations of liberals chanting, “Defund the police,” Biden drastically outperformed the down-ballot leftists in even the bluest of districts. Realistically, Uncle Joe proved that his boring and occasionally brutish brand of retail and pragmatic politics worked. The man who famously backed the Iraq War and opposed the surge, opposed the Osama Bin Ladin raid, supported the Libya assault, and spearheaded the Serbia bombing while ignoring the Rwandan genocide, beat the self-aggrandizing Cheeto King.
How did it get this way and how does it continue? Is it only going to get worse if ‘Biden ain’t my President’ gets the WH? Probably!
‘In one of its most flagrant election-related censorship moves to date, YouTube has announced that from today, it will start removing any videos alleging that “widespread fraud, errors, or glitches changed the outcome of any past US presidential election.”
For the 2020 US presidential election, YouTube is applying this policy to all videos uploaded on or after December 9. It will then start issuing strikes to videos that are uploaded after Inauguration Day (January 20, 2021) and then removed under this policy.
YouTube also revealed that it has already removed more than 8,000 channels and thousands of “harmful and misleading elections-related videos” under its existing policies.
This change means that any videos sharing or agreeing with President Trump’s official legal argument, which alleges that Trump won the election and that there is evidence of widespread voter fraud that changed the result of the election, will now be purged from the platform.
YouTube has made this change while the President’s legal team still has active legal challenges to the 2020 US presidential result, meaning that simply covering the arguments presented in these ongoing challenges could now be a violation of these rules.
YouTube claims that these changes are part of a longstanding “Presidential Election Integrity” policy that prohibits making similar allegations against any past US presidential election.
Yet mainstream media outlets on YouTube have been given free rein to question the 2016 US presidential election results and even allege that Russia hacked the election.
“*THIS* is the kind of censorship you would see in Russia or Communist China,” journalist Kyle Becker tweeted in response to YouTube’s announcement. “Don’t think just because you’re in ‘America’ that this isn’t the same kind of thing. It is. Down-pointing red triangle.”
YouTube revealed that it has already removed 8,000 channels and thousands of “harmful and misleading elections-related videos” for violating its existing policies. It added that its enforcement of this new policy will “ramp up in the weeks to come.”
The mass, one-sided censorship that is likely to come about as YouTube enforces this policy follows other policy changes that have prohibited content that opposes mainstream narratives on topics such as coronavirus treatments, lockdowns, and more.
If you thought Communism died when the Berlin Wall came down you are wrong! Communism is well and alive around the world today! The Australian state of Victoria is a FAR FAR LEFT Leaning state government and therefore it isn’t a real surprise that ‘Four members of three competing communist groups have won election to Melbourne councils in the recent local elections.
Three of those were re-elected, with Stephen Jolly and Brigid O’Brien (both formally of the Socialist Party and the Victorian Socialists) winning seats on Yarra Council with 26.07% and 15.13% of the vote respectively. Sue Bolton a veteran Marxist of many decades standing and one of the last leaders of the faltering Socialist Alliance was also re-elected to the City of Moreland Council for a third term with only 12.1% of the vote. Whilst these percentages may seem ludicrously low, the voting systems for many inner city Melbourne councils are deliberately designed to allow candidates to win with the approval of only small slivers of the electorate.
But one successful communist candidate was a newcomer, and by that I mean a newcomer only in the realm of being a new elected councillor, because in the realm of Australian communism Jorge Jorquera is anything but new. Jorge, representing the Socialist Alternative front group “Victorian Socialists” won a seat on Maribyrnong council after two recounts and an astoundingly low 8.76% of the vote. Thus becoming the first ever communist elected to a council in Melbourne’s Western suburbs.
Jorge has an extremely long record as a Marxist activist, as the child of Marxists who fled the Pinochet government in Chile he was likely a communist from his cradle. He began his adult Marxist activism in the mid 1980s and by 1991 he was not only an activist with the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) but was the Melbourne organiser for their youth group “Resistance”.
In 1992 in his capacity as Resistance organiser Jorge was contacted by both the Australian solicitor general and the Department of Health, Housing and Community Services in relation to the distribution of 5000 copies of a sexually explicit DSP authored pamphlet “Fantastic Sex Facts” to underage schoolchildren. The main culprit involved in this targeting of underage children was Zanny Beg, a fellow Democratic Socialist party activist who would go on to found “Community Action Against Homophobia” to campaign for the lowering of the homosexual age of consent in NSW.
What delightful people.
Jorge was particularly interested in the DSP due to that group’s interest in supporting Latin American communist dictators like Fidel Castro. In the late 80s and early 90s the DSP had gradually moved away from its roots in Trotskyist-style communism and had moved towards an ideology closer to “anything that still vaguely resembles communism is good”. Naturally the DSP’s Trotskyist rivals in the International Socialists (a 1995 split of which eventually became the Socialist Alternative) made much mockery of this evolution, referring to the DSP as “Castroite” for much of the nineties.
While this might have been embarrassing for the older activists in the DSP who had been bleating about Trotsky since the late 60s, it suited Jorge down to the ground. Jorge’s passion at that time (and main activity over the course of the last thirty years) has been an unwavering, steadfast and fanatical fanboy level of support for every communist or Marxist influenced regime in Latin America. When Fidel Castro finally kicked the bucket and went to join his fellow communists in hell, Jorge described the dead dictator as “genuinely heroic” and “inspiring to millions”.
Jorge speaking at a Revolutionary Socialist Party meeting in front of a picture of his murderous hero Che while wearing a t-shirt with the logo of the communist terrorist group Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria, or MIR.
But Jorge has saved perhaps his greatest love for the regime of former Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez. Jorge even helped set up communist front groups with names like “Committees in Solidarity with Latin America and the Caribbean” and the “Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network” to host events here in Australia for ambassadors and other regime officials.
The DSP became the Socialist Alliance in 2001 to try and cash in on the supposed electoral discontent of the working class with capitalism. When a few years later the legions of hidden proletariat votes had failed to materialise a faction inside the Alliance began to argue that the problem was that they had become too moderate and needed to get back to more hardline “Leninist” communism. Jorge was a part of this group. When this “Leninist faction” was expelled in 2008 for being continually annoying he and others (including Kevin Rudd’s nephew) went on to found the “Revolutionary Socialist Party” (RSP). The RSP was a complete failure largely due to the fact that most of its members were such old communists that they kept dying or having to be hospitalised. Eventually in 2012 the more youthful remnants of the RSP begged to be allowed to merge with Socialist Alternative.
Jorge has long been involved in the education sector having formerly been a staff member at Victoria Uni and currently being employed as a Curriculum Advisor at Keypath Education Australia. In 2007 Jorge joined together with Jo Williams (of Victoria University and Socialist Alternative) and Tracey Ollis (of Deakin University school of Education) to form the “Popular Education Network Australia” (PENA). In their own words the aim of PENA was to bring together “fellow travellers” working within the education system to better spread the influence and ideas of Brazilian education theorist Paulo Freire among Australian educators.
Freire argued in his most important work “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” that the purpose of the teacher was not simply to impart knowledge but to also subliminally indoctrinate children in Marxist theory.
These are the people you pay through your taxes to teach your kids’ teachers. And if you’re unfortunate enough to live in Maribyrnong council one of them is now sucking parasitically at your rates.
Jorge Jorquera wearing a hoodie with the logo of communist terrorist group MIR on the front. Jorge has been a communist for a very, very long time.
The typical response from most on the right to hearing about another communist councillor being elected is complacency. “It’s only a council seat” they say. Well it was only one council seat when Stephen Jolly won in Yarra in 2004, now it’s half a dozen Australia wide. With just one seat Jolly was able to lead a campaign to block the billion dollar East-West link project and missed out on a Victorian upper house seat at the last state poll by the slimmest of margins. Ignoring these extremists doesn’t make them go away.
Every year the extreme left in Australia gets more organised and its activists wriggle deeper inside the institutions that make up the bones of our society. The time to start paying attention to these communists is now, before it’s too late.’https://gab.com/theunshackled?mc_cid=da1fdd19dc&mc_eid=6e30632a8a
The following article is typical of UN and other Leftist/Marxist/Communist/Socialist thinkers. There is always a little bit of truth to their atheism, lies and out and out craziness.
‘Grinches want to ban Christmas dinner because so much food gets thrown away.
Eco activists have hit out at the 150,000 tonnes of turkey and trimmings that go to landfill each year.
Mark Hall, from BusinessWaste.co.uk, said: “We all buy far too much food at Christmas and a large proportion of it ends up wasted.
“Britain wastes up to a third of its food, and Christmas dinner is the most wasteful meal of them all.”
He added: “Maybe we should even think about banning Christmas dinner altogether.”
One would have to be a hermit not to know something about Twitter’s double standards in what they allow and will not allow on their platform! Now, ‘In the past week, state-labeled accounts from the CCP of China have spread misinformation regarding the origins of COVID-19, pointing the finger at frozen food from Europe and Italy, in an attempt to shield themselves from culpability and obfuscate any investigation into their actions in Wuhan or their virology studies. The posts from Chinese state-run media have gone unchallenged by Twitter, and Twitter’s communications team, whose members apparently don’t like using their own platform, remains silent.
When Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian posted a photoshopped graphic of an Australian soldier with a knife to the neck of a young child, as part of an ongoing conflict between Australia and China, the topic trended on Twitter’s news feed. It garnered a featured spot in their news section. The tweet prompted a response from Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida in a letter directly addressed to Jack Dorsey about why Chinese state accounts are allowed to spread misinformation on his platform at will, while the President’s account is policed within mere minutes.
Rubio doesn’t have much authority to enforce Twitter’s rules on its behalf, but just as it comes to banning Twitter accounts along ideological lines, if Dorsey and Twitter won’t begin to enforce their own rules, then someone else will. But Rubio is asking valid questions. Why are Chinese state accounts allowed to spread conspiracies and misinformation against other countries or about the global pandemic they created, while Twitter executives and engineers simply look the other way? The answer might be even more troubling than what it appears to be on the surface.
Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that the likes of Nike and Apple are lobbying members of Congress against the Xinjiang Forced Labor Bill, which addresses American-based companies using forced labor camps, like the ones containing Uighur Muslims in China, to produce their products, or the materials that go into their products. These companies are arguing that the financial hit their supply chains will incur as a result of complete separation from China is not acceptable. Nike and Apple, you will recall, put up a woke facade this summer in the name of raking in millions of social-justice dollars for their products. Twitter does not offer a can of soda, or a pair of high priced trainers, but it’s not inconceivable to imagine that it views cultural investments in China in much the same way that movie studios such as Disney. Currently it’s illegal to use Twitter in China, though many Chinese people do so by using a VPN. Where you see a repressive authoritarian regime and a billion and a half silent citizens, does Jack Dorsey see a business opportunity?
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