Wow, Twitter.

[conuly]

They've still yet to do anything about their infestation of Neo-Nazis... but apparently they're right on top of banning Jewish users for saying "goy" and "goyim."

Wow.

Shows where their priorities are, doesn't it!

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[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

So you're saying they're not banning anyone for saying 'kike' or whatever the currently-popular hate-word is for Jews? Wow.

'Goy' is a hate-word when it's used as one, and it often is used as one, e.g. "It'll kill your grandmother if you marry a goy."

(A personal note: the word applied to me in that particular sentence - very long ago - was not goy; it was shiksa, which most definitely is a hate-word.)

*shrugs* Groups that use hate-words invariably deny that that's what they are, and present a bunch of bullshit rationalizations to back up their denial. The group to ask whether something is or is not a hate-word is the group that's getting called that.

Maybe Twitter can just cut to the chase and ban ALL name-calling. Yeah right. Anyway, last I heard, Twitter was not a branch of the government, but a private company with the right to make whatever rules they want for use of their site. People who don't like their rules are free to not let the door hit their asses.