Tag: SJW

Twitter initiates a ban on Qanon content:

Twitter announced Tuesday that it has begun taking sweeping actions to limit the reach of QAnon content, banning many of the conspiracy theory’s followers because of problems with harassment and misinformation.

Twitter will stop recommending accounts and content related to QAnon, including material in email and follow recommendations, and it will take steps to limit circulation of content in features like trends and search. The action will affect about 150,000 accounts, said a spokesperson, who asked to remain unnamed because of concerns about the targeted harassment of social media employees.

The spokesperson said that as part of its new policy, the company had taken down more than 7,000 QAnon accounts in the last few weeks for breaking its rules on targeted harassment.

The sweeping enforcement action will ban QAnon-related terms from appearing in trending topics and the platform’s search feature, ban known QAnon-related URLs and prohibit “swarming” of people who are baselessly targeted by coordinated harassment campaigns pushed by QAnon followers.

It’s really remarkable how inverted the relationship between the Prometheans and observable reality is. Once you realize that their morals are every bit as inverted, you begin to understand how awful and evil they truly are.

Instapundit notes the excision of the SJW executives, and the entire SJW marketing team, from the Red Bull organization:

“Have you ever heard of the phrase, ‘get woke, go broke?’ It turns out there is a simple way to prevent this, and it involves firing people indiscriminately, until the rest of the employees realize that the only way they are going to be able to keep their jobs is by being professional, and keeping their kook politics out of the workplace. Pour encourager les autres.”

However, some Instapundit commenters took exception to his failure to mention the relatively obvious connection to my book Corporate Cancer, which prescribes precisely this response to SJW employees attempting to converge the organization.

Come on Glenn, this merits a plug for Vox Day’s important book Corporate Cancer for biz owners and senior mgt, as well as his earlier books SJWs Always Lie, etc, meant more for individuals/employees. You can disagree with him on other issues, but he is dead right on this.
– newscaper

Persona non grata. I wish I had screenshot the comment but Reynolds once complained that he already had to keep certain people off the website. The context was on complaints about the endless links to cucks tho, he didn’t give any names.
– SameOl’SantaRiaCult ShakinChic

First, understand and accept that it is the ideas that matter, not the author. I don’t care if hostile organizations such as The New York Times and Nature don’t properly credit me for destroying the “religion causes war” hypothesis or if economics journals don’t give me credit for predicting the financial crisis of 2008 and the labor mobility argument that disproves both comparative advantage and the various arguments for free trade.

I know that what I’ve done has made a difference, which is the only thing that matters. The entire system is set up to deny credit, status, and fame to the genuinely innovative while awarding it to mediocrities who have taken the ticket. It is, therefore, a meaningful badge of honor to have the system deny one the fruits of one’s achievements.

Second, Instapundit and the Insta-wife have always been very gracious to Castalia House. If they are no longer in a position to do so, I very much doubt that it has anything to do with their personal inclinations. I don’t know precisely what constraints PJ Media imposes on its bloggers, but I do know that it imposes some constraints on them. And it would not surprise me in the slightest if one of them was any reference to me, my books, or this blog.

And let’s face it, what blogger, given complete autonomy, would ever permit Ed Driscoll and Stephen Green to turn his blog into another tedious NRO-style ALL AIPAC ALL THE TIME site?

I’m not going to even pretend to care at all about this dispute, as Comicsgate has devolved into the neocon gatekeepers of the comics industry and Dynamite probably won’t be around in 3-5 years. But it is industry news, so it’s worth noting:

An hour ago, Bleeding Cool published an article regarding a number of their creators deciding to stop working for Dynamite Entertainment. Shortly before publication, Dynamite owner and publisher Nick Barrucci declined to comment. That suddenly seems to have changed.

Several prominent comic book creators had told Dynamite that they were no longer happy to work for the company when they were publishing, crowdfunding, and promoting creator-exclusive variant covers by Comicsgate comic book creators. While this had been happening for over a year, it was the recent promotion of these covers and Comicsgater livestreams on Dynamite ‘s social media and e-mail blasts, and bringing the crowdfunding under Dynamite’s name that drew new attention to this activity.

Specifically, one cover by Comicsgate creators Cecil and Donal Delay, featuring a Comicsgate character alongside Dynamite characters Vampirella and Red Sonja, promoted alongside other creators’ work, that caused the current reaction. Some Dynamite creators who objected to these events battled with their commitments to others and to their work. However, Matt Miner, Karla Pacheco, Mark Russell, and Christian Ward were among those who stated they would no longer work for Dynamite as a result. I understand other creators talked to Dynamite privately about this issue, also expressing their concerns. The Comicsgaters in question used these statements as a way to drum up more business, talking about celebrating creator tears, as more abuse was targeted against them.

But half an hour after publication, Nick Barrucci decided to comment, telling Bleeding Cool, “In speaking with Cecil, neither one of us realized the cover would be so polarizing.  We discussed and are not moving forward with the cover or the campaign.”

Arkhaven doesn’t need Diamond, Dynamite, or Comicsgate, much less Bleeding Cool, so all of the various tempests in the comics industry teapot are irrelevant to us. But it is nevertheless informative to observe how SJWs are now fully engaged in their war on the cucks of the nominal Right.

UPDATE: Apparently ol’ Two-Face is at it again:

According to Comicsgate leader/spokesperson Ethan Van Sciver, Dynamite Entertainment CEO Nick Barruci has been secretly working alongside the group, criticized by many as an online harassment campaign, since 2018 – a decision that has apparently urged Van Sciver to break his silence as to the extent of Barucci’s support up to this point. The news comes a day after multiple artists and writers denounced Dynamite for working alongside Comicsgate.

What a great friend! I’m sure Barucci will appreciate 2VS exposing him like this and want to stand by him in the future. Assuming, of course, that what he’s saying is substantially true and is not a significant exaggeration.

Red Bull excises the corporate cancer:

Red Bull has fired two top executives in the US who had lobbied for more diversity in the company and were blamed for the leak of a letter that criticized its ‘public silence’ on Black Lives Matter.

North America chief executive Stefan Kozak and North America president and chief marketing officer Amy Taylor were let go, the energy drink company said Tuesday.

While Red Bull employees in the US have been pressing for the company to be more vocal about racism, Red Bull’s billionaire CEO Dietrich Mateschitz is a Donald Trump admirer who has spoken out against ‘political correctness’.

The 76-year-old tycoon also owns a media firm which has been criticized for giving a platform to far-right activists in his native Austria.

Sources told Business Insider that Red Bull’s top executives in Austria are thought to have fired Kozak and Taylor in ‘retaliation’ for the leak, although no official reason was given for their departure.

The letter signed by more than 300 employees had criticized the company for ‘saying nothing’ amid the global anti-racism protests and ‘abandoning the communities we claim to support and foster in their time of greatest need’.

Both Kozak and Taylor have pushed for more diversity and inclusion but Taylor was ‘met with opposition’ when she called for the company to take a more public stand on racism, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Any employee who pushes for more diversity, inclusion, or any other social justice value should be axed on the spot. Give them HR and sooner or later, they will take the executive suite.

Hey, I’m just a humble consumer advocate advocating for consumers….

A certain Big Bear received this today:

Paola, Jul 15, 2020, 8:07 AM PDT:

Hi Owen,

I’m Paola with Airbnb. We’re reaching out because we have received numerous reports from concerned community members of discriminatory comments left by you in a live stream.

After a full review of the incident, we have decided to remove you from the Airbnb community. This means you can no longer access your account and cannot create a new one.

You are being removed because the language you used violated the Airbnb Nondiscrimination Policy, which can be referenced here:

airbnb.com/help/article/1405

We consider this decision final.

 These people are just astonishingly stupid. Just as Patreon’s policies didn’t give its Trust & Safety group the powers they thought it did, the Nondiscrimination Policy doesn’t have anything to do with what someone says on a live stream.

If a particular listing contains language contrary to this nondiscrimination policy, the host will be asked to remove the language and affirm his or her understanding and intent to comply with this policy and its underlying principles. Airbnb may also, in its discretion, take steps up to and including suspending the host from the Airbnb platform.

If the host improperly rejects guests on the basis of protected class, or uses language demonstrating that his or her actions were motivated by factors prohibited by this policy, Airbnb will take steps to enforce this policy, up to and including suspending the host from the platform.

It’s the same thing as the “creation” issue on Patreon. These idiots simply don’t understand what their own policies say, or recognize the specific limits on them. I can smell something… it strikes me as familiar… it smells like… like… arbitration!

It’s amusing how warring SJWs always accuse each other of being racist, sexist, homophobic Nazis. It’s as if they all know their attacks on the Right, which force the average conservative to assume the fetal position on demand, were pure nonsense all along:

In the latest example of ‘cancel culture’, novelist Gillian Philip was last week jettisoned from her role writing titles for a major publishing company.

It came after the writer, who has penned a popular series of books for eight-to-12-year-olds, added the hashtag #IStandWithJKRowling to her Twitter handle.

Her move sparked a torrent of online abuse and emails to her employer Working Partners, a ‘fiction packaging’ firm which devises series for publishing houses and commissions authors to write them.

Ms Philip, 56, had expressed her support for the Harry Potter creator after she retweeted an article referring to ‘people who menstruate’ and questioned why the story did not use the word ‘women’.  Ms Rowling was subjected to trolling and accused of being ‘transphobic’.

However, Ms Philip – one of several authors writing under the name Erin Hunter on popular animal fantasy series including Warrior Cats, Survivors and Bravelands – found herself sacked for her support of Ms Rowling.

After Ms Philip received sexualised abuse and deaths threats from the trans lobby, she tweeted ‘Bring it on, homophobes and lesbian-haters’ – which only inflamed the situation.

Within 24 hours, James Noble, managing editor of Working Partners, replied to the barrage of complaints saying: ‘The worlds created by Erin Hunter are meant to be inclusive for all readers and we want to let you know that Gillian Philip will no longer be writing any Erin Hunter novels.’

Just stay out of their world and keep them out of yours. If your company or your church or your softball team converges, either deconverge it by ejecting all the SJWs and their sympathizers or walk away without hesitation. It’s never going to get better.

Sir Michael Palin and other Knights of the British Empire are objecting to St. George crushing Satan underneath his feet:

Monty Python star Sir Michael Palin has joined calls to redesign one of the Queen’s medals after a petition was launched claiming the insignia  is ‘racist’ and ‘looks similar to George Floyd’s killing’. The medal for the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George – one of the Queen’s highest honours – previously featured a picture of a white angel standing on the neck of a black man.

The image, which was changed in 2011 to feature a light-skinned devil, is actually a depiction of the Archangel Michael defeating Satan. But a petition claims the medal bears a resemblance to the death of George Floyd, who died in May after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for almost eight minutes as he was being arrested. Sir Michael, was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St George and St Michael in 2019 for ‘services to travel, culture and geography’, has since backed calls to change the design, while the Governor General of Jamaica Sir Patrick Allen has said he will no longer wear the award and called for it to be redesigned.

It’s pretty obvious that it’s not any purported similarity to St. George Floyd’s death that bothers them, it’s the way in which their master’s defeat is so humiliatingly portrayed.

The wicked are becoming increasingly transparent about where their true loyalties lie.

It’s only a matter of time before Teddy Roosevelt is removed from Mount Rushmore:

The American Museum of Natural History will remove a prominent statue of Theodore Roosevelt from its entrance after years of objections that it symbolizes colonial expansion and racial discrimination, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday.

The bronze statue that has stood at the museum’s Central Park West entrance since 1940 depicts Roosevelt on horseback with a Native American man and an African man standing next to the horse.

‘The American Museum of Natural History has asked to remove the Theodore Roosevelt statue because it explicitly depicts Black and Indigenous people as subjugated and racially inferior,’ de Blasio said in a written statement.

‘The City supports the Museum’s request. It is the right decision and the right time to remove this problematic statue.’

While I would prefer to keep statues where they are, it is good to know that there is going to be space on Mount Rushmore for the God-Emperor once he drains the Swamp.

Every year is Year Zero for the warriors of Social Justice.

I’ve never made much use of it, but you can safely expect to see Discord deplatforming everyone who thinks any unapproved thoughts of BLM, Antifa, or The Last of Us 2 in the near future:

Like every mainstream communications service, we have to contend with people using Discord to promote hate and to abuse others. To be clear: hate has no place on Discord. As we’ve grown as a company, we have taken decisive action to make Discord hostile to white supremacists, racists, and other groups who seek to use Discord for evil.

We have invested in people — Trust & Safety is one of the largest teams at Discord — and in technology to proactively identify and ban bad actors from the platform. In 2019, more than half of the servers we removed for violent extremist content — many of which were white supremacist servers — were removed proactively by our team, before they were reported to us. We will keep increasing that number. In recent weeks, we have been monitoring our platform very closely to find and remove anyone seeking to use Discord to organize around violent extremism or disrupt protests.

Today, we commit to two additional actions to make sure we are as effective as we can be against the spread of hate on Discord:

• We will undertake a third-party audit by an organization active in researching the spread of hate and racism to observe how Discord works, how we enforce our policies, and to make recommendations for us to be more effective. And we’ll share what we learn so others in the industry can make use of their expertise.
• We are investing significant engineering resources internally to develop software to find and manage abuse proactively. We commit to an open source strategy, which means other companies can benefit and build on what we learn. We hope this also inspires companies to release their tools so users can benefit across platforms.

We want the Discord team to reflect the diversity of society. Today we’re committing to:

• Diversifying our senior leadership team as soon as possible.
• Recruiting a full-time Head of Diversity & Inclusion who reports to our Chief People Officer to ensure these efforts have dedicated attention and full responsibility.
• An internship program starting in 2021 geared to underrepresented groups with a 5-year goal of training the next generation of Discord leaders.

Translation: Discord desperately wants to get acquired by a converged company before the stock market crashes, so it’s corporate-cancerizing itself with maximum effort, complete with paying the Danegeld to the ADL.

Anyhow, it’s already been thought-policing for some time now, so this is confirmation that the hunt for crimethink is about to go to the next level. I’d recommend uninstalling it if you haven’t already.