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<\/p>\nI\u2019ve noticed that more and more politicians are claiming that Twitter is becoming more bigoted.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m looking at you Adam Schiff!<\/p>\n
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What I wondered is this;<\/p>\n
What would happen if people just randomly sent a tweet to people like Adam Schiff, Maxine Waters, John Fetterman, Katie Hobbs, Nancy Pelosi, and whoever else popped to mind saying, \u201cI Don\u2019t like you.”<\/p>\n
Nothing more than that. I realize that my list is all Democrats but hey why not give every politician the same treatment equally?<\/p>\n
What would happen on Twitter? It\u2019s not hate speech, it\u2019s not a threat, it\u2019s not a call for violence, or any of the other “banned\u201d interactions. It\u2019s simply telling the person in question unequivocally that you, as a person don\u2019t like them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This could be for any reason, you don\u2019t like their politics, you don\u2019t like their stance on gun control, you don\u2019t think they\u2019re doing a good job, whatever the reason, a simple generic, \u201cI don\u2019t like you,\u201d shouldn\u2019t be banned, it\u2019s not bigoted, and it leaves the interpretation of your message open to the recipient.<\/p>\n
Given that so many of these people seem to live for the adulation of the press, and attention from the public. I\u2019ve wondered what receiving thousands or millions of generic messages like this would do to their collective psyches.<\/p>\n
These people claim to want to protect democracy, how would they react to a completely egalitarian registration of people simply not liking them? What would they do if a preponderance of \u201cI Don\u2019t Like You\u201d messages was all they received via their Twitter feed? I wonder if they\u2019d get the message.<\/p>\n
In the case of Adam Schiff who is claiming that he\u2019s getting more bigoted remarks in the wake of Elon Musk taking the helm of Twitter, I think that perhaps Mr. Schiff is missing the point. Perhaps it\u2019s not bigoted, perhaps the negative comments have nothing to do with his religion or appearance, but instead have to do with him personally.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I find Mr. Schiff to be a thoroughly unlikable person. Every time I\u2019ve seen him giving speeches or appearing on chat shows he simply comes across as a nasty piece of work. So I don\u2019t like him. Politically, he\u2019s milquetoast except in his rabid hatred of all things Trump. To see him whining on CNN about bigotry on Twitter does nothing more than than confirm to me he\u2019s a weak individual struggling to hold onto power.<\/p>\n
Most of the rest of the Twitterati, (of which I was one,) have lived under draconian, arbitrary, capriciously enforced \u201crules\u201d. Twitter users could say, “I wish Trump was dead,” or “All infidels in Synagog X should be killed.” But other Twitter users couldn\u2019t say The Transgender agenda is more far reaching than has been said and I think they\u2019re after our kids. A Twitter user who said something negative about transgenders would be banned instantly.<\/p>\n
Now that censorship is not protecting Adam Schiff from real people that don\u2019t like him, his feelings are hurt and he views people speaking their mind as an affront.<\/p>\n
I think Adam Schiff should grow a pair, and perhaps should grow some thicker skin too. If he actually believes in what he\u2019s doing and is committed to his position, then it doesn\u2019t matter what people say about him.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what I mean by saying he\u2019s proving to me, with every single appearance where he\u2019s bitching and whining about bad things being said about him or to him on Twitter<\/em>, that he\u2019s a terribly weak individual with weak commitment to his values. He\u2019s changeable as the wind, last month he liked Twitter, because he was protected from the slings and arrows of the American Public. This month Twitter is bad, for no other reason than he gets to see what people really think.<\/p>\n Politicians getting direct engagement from their constituents could be a good thing. If for no other reason than politicians would have a less filtered and isolated view of what is important to the people they govern.<\/p>\n I suppose this was why I was thinking about a simple concise message, \u201cI don\u2019t like you,\u201d might be useful. It\u2019s up to the politician to reach out and ask why. If they choose not to engage, then the American People would have another valuable data point for the next election.<\/p>\n On the other hand, if a politician chose to ask why 900,000 people sent him or her, \u201cI don\u2019t like you,\u201d on a particular day and found that their position of a particular issue had been misreported. They would have the opportunity to explain themselves and perhaps get a message back from the American People that said, \u201cOkay I get it. Thank you for the clarification.\u201d They may not win everyone over, but at least they\u2019d be in contact with the people and not acting as if they lived in a bubble.<\/p>\n If we\u2019re really all about democracy then let\u2019s be<\/strong><\/em> democratic.<\/p>\n It is things like this thought that make me almost ready to engage in Twitter again. I just can\u2019t quite decide if it\u2019s worth my time or effort yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve noticed that more and more politicians are claiming that Twitter is becoming more bigoted. I\u2019m looking at you Adam Schiff! What I wondered is this; What would happen if people just randomly sent a tweet to people like Adam Schiff, Maxine Waters, John Fetterman, Katie Hobbs, Nancy Pelosi, and whoever else popped to mind … <\/p>\n