Canadian Politics Today

I saw something on twitter which I bookmarked for Kimmy's woe-is-women-on-twitter post above:

https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1310005325278318593

Eugene Gu is a questionable character with accusations of domestic abuse amongst other things but that's irrelevant to my point.  This cisgender man is taking a break from twitter because he can't take the onslaught of abuse telling him to commit suicide.

As I've said repeatedly on this thread, twitter and social media in general brings out the worst in people.  I don't condone it and I take few risks for myself, but the abuse does not discriminate towards any particular ideology.

The claim was never that only women suffer abuse on Twitter,  so your ability to find a cisgender male person who is allegedly experiencing a campaign of harassment doesn't disprove what I have argued.     

Also, as you mention, Gu seems to be a questionable character, and maybe this alleged campaign by racist white doctors trying to destroy him isn't all it seems.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/5/18147216/eugene-gu-twitter-social-justice-activism-abuse-sexual-assault

I don't condone it and I take few risks for myself, but the abuse does not discriminate towards any particular ideology.

And trying to extrapolate Dr Gu's sad story into the conclusion that you've drawn here is spectacularly stupid. 

Certainly the abuse does discriminate. The alt-right have used Twitter to silence and intimidate their targets for years, and that is an issue that has been widely discussed.  What is much less discussed is that the social justice mob use the same tactics.  And progressives either don't know, or they're willing to rationalize or excuse it. So that's what I wanted to point out in this thread. Because nothing says "progressive" like threatening to **** or kill a woman for voicing her opinion.

 -k