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Addressing the racist tweets from 2016
🕑 Added 2021-12-06 01:34:30 +0000 UTCAs some of you have probably seen yourself, critics of mine love to post screencaps of tweets I made in angry outbursts about 7 years ago. One in which I post a racial slur at a Morrocan holocaust denier, and others in which I posted a racial slur at a Pakistani Islamist. I have addressed these tweets before, in fact, even apologized for them publicly in 2017. But that doesn't matter. The truth of the matter is that I have nobody to blame for these but myself, and they will be coming up again in the future. That's just a fact of my social media presence. And it will continue to be a fact of my social media presence.
There is however a decision that I have made regarding these. I will from now on refuse to address them. The only people who consistently bring them up are communists and Islamists, other political extremists, or people who are just bitter that I have a large following. It is always in the context of "don't watch his video because *screencap of 7-year-old tweet*" or "His recent video is bad/wrong because *Screencap of 7-year-old tweet*" And one thing that particularly disgusts me is when some ideologue grifter approaches me with the screencaps and insists that I have to apologize to them personally on their Livestream or something.
I used to constantly remind people that I know these tweets were wrong, and that I apologized for them. But I am now sick of doing so. An angry outburst on Twitter from 7 years ago does not define who I am, what my character is, and what my personality is. And frankly, it is despicable that there are people who think you can frame an entire person's character around a tweet. I have consequently grown tired and frustrated of people who bring these screencaps up in a dishonest way. I have to assume from now on that anyone who brings these up as a critique of me, without mentioning that they are 7 years old, or without mentioning that I apologized for them 7 years ago, is deliberately acting out of bad faith with the intention of poisoning the well.
You should know: Yes, the screencaps a real. Yes, I made these tweets. Yes, these tweets are bad. Yes, I am sorry for them. And it matters to me that you know that.
But I will not have this be used by people with nefarious intentions to try and get me to bend the knee in front of their internet ego.
Thank you for your time.
Comments
Its a commentary on the rise of "left tube" and its break from its fascist/ white supremacist origins. Figured you'd have some thoughts as you were someone who broke away early on.
Kraut
could you first tell me what it is XD it's very long
Heated opinions out of context can look bad. I'm glad you've grown as a person since this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41B5YonixBs Would love your thoughts on this Joe!
