"Twitter removed tweets referencing the 'Transgender Day of Vengeance' and said: 'We do not support tweets that incite violence irrespective of who posts them. "Vengeance" does not imply peaceful protest.' Announcing the march had been cancelled, the Trans Radical Activist Network said: 'Individuals who had nothing to [do] with that heinous act have been subjected to highly serious threats and blamed only because of their gender identity. This is one of the steps in genocide, and we will continue our efforts to protect trans lives.'"
Are you surprised to see Twitter censoring based on the word "vengeance"? The Times offers this image as something that was seen on social media promoting the event:
Obviously, that looks awful so soon after the school shooting, but it strikes me as conventional American iconography. We have a right to bear arms in self-defense, and the written words are "defend equality." It seems like many images I've seen from right wingers, conveying the message that you're armed and you will defend yourself.
The word "vengeance" muddies the message, because it implies that you are not defending yourself against a present physical threat but you're looking at the past, totaling up resentment for accumulated wrongs, and deciding to inflict a punishment you've deemed appropriate.
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"Vengeance" does not imply peaceful protest.'
ya think?
pffft - Only leftist militia groups can get away with such a title.
"TRANSGENDER DAY OF VENGEANCE"
The message is that they, like Antifa, are going to be proactive in their outrage. Everyone has a right to self defense. Everyone does not have the right to take you/me/anybody aside and beat or kill,(that's what the AR15 in this instance implies), you because you don't agree with their lifestyle choices. As I have mentioned before. You can make believe you're anything you want. I am not obligated in any way to play along.
The Trans movement is spinning out of control so quickly that the MSM is now censoring them.......in order to help them.
Obviously, that looks awful so soon after the school shooting, but it strikes me as conventional American iconography.
A minuteman with a musket might be conventional American iconography or the outline of a cannon with the words "Come and Take It." When it's pictures of an actual magazine and bullets the message becomes something more than that. Also, the minuteman and the cannon would be used in more abstract or general or generic appeals. Used to summon people to a Trump rally or Jan. 6 protest they would be regarded as provocative -- and the photo of the bullets and magazine are even more provocative summons to violence. Radical trans groups are going much further than the supposed "insurrectionists" of two years ago.
We're a long way from Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr, which is maybe not a surprise because what they did, what they promoted, to effect change through non-violent, peaceful means, that's really hard to do. It's simpler to try and make people fear you, give us what we want or someone's going to get hurt. Which isn't to say that this approach is more likely to work.
Right On, Twitter!
The Times is giving you a whitewashed, tame image, avoiding the image of the actual text-only poster that was splashing all across twitter. It declared their aims using clear words of brute force.
"Vengeance" is a cry for Havoc. Black Lives Matter was smarter than the transies, they cloaked their vengeance using words of lofty goodness.
"credible threat to life and safety"
Means Democrat Party operatives would show up.
I blame women. Being a victim always works, even if you have to go two levels deep. It's played to that audience.
Althouse--the word "vengeance" does not muddy anything. It clarifies and terrifies. Was the Nashville shooter part of something bigger set to unleash violence on April 1?
Has anyone reached Sarah Palin for comment? Her traditional target location icon got turned into a gunsight by ignorant newsies after Gabby Giffords was shot by an apolitical lunatic. Gabby's husband has ridden that conflict into the US Senate.
“ A credible threat to life and safety”. Whose safety? Ours or theirs?
They can't let the Trans clutter the news cycle, just about when their wet-dream expectation of a pro-Trump mayhem, following Trump's surrender in NYC. You got to have one gaslighting event at a time. You need people to remain sane enough to continue to go to work and pay taxes. The pro-Trump bait has been in motion for months now. The Trans can wait.
Hashtag Eyeballs Management.
BTW, Listening to Matt Taibbi's last weeks podcast it occurs to me that going after Trump now could be an attempt to boost Trump's campaign against the Fla Governor, who they perceive as the more formidable would-be GOP nominee. Going after Trump now is a win-win in that, even if it fails, the attempt falls under the Alinsky rule #6 which Althouse referenced yesterday. A good tactic is one that your people enjoy. If your people are not having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.
Oh my goodness. The Trump court appearance is going to be orgasmic. You are going to have people taking the day off. There's going to be arraignment parties, celebration galore. And they need it. They haven't had much to celebrate since... Biden won?
I think we have a new definition for chutzpah. The trans community still wanted to have a transgender day of vengeance after a trans person commits an act of terrorism by killing three children and 3 adults in an elementary school. Were they upset that more students weren’t killed? Do they really think that any rational person would believe that they are the aggrieved party?
Why feel sympathetic towards these activists (likely a tiny, unrepresentative group among all trans, plus all Democrat politicians) unless their chosen leadership apologizes for exploiting the murder of innocents; cuts their physical assaults and threats against women; stops using slurs like breeders, TERF, and cis, and ceases the eternal lying about being exposed to higher risks of murder and suicide? Statistically, everything they say to make their legislative and moral case is pure lies. I challenge anyone to listen to Jordan Peterson's interviews with Sarah Stockton and Abigail Shrirer and not come away shaken by the facts about childhood dysmorphia, trans suicide and murder stats, the untested mutilation of young bodies, and the facts about who really is killing the relatively tiny number of trans people killed each year, as honest researchers are fired for telling the truth about these things and the social contagion the activists are creating, especially among young females.
And stop wasting public health dollars on healthy bodies, money that should go to people with diseases that need real medical intervention. Ditto to the Munchausen by Proxy mommies forcing this contagion on their children.
If these activists really cared about the lives of trans people, they would apply all their energy to helping them "transition" away from dangerous behavior like prostituting themselves.
"The word "vengeance" muddies the message"
How so? Instead of reading their minds as nice women would, let's take them at their word. The message is the message.
'The word "vengeance" muddies the message....'
The word "vengeance" is the message.
Numerous websites have published the statistics of the number of homocides of trans people. There is nothing in them to suggest "genocide."
As for "credible threats", this is standard pap from Democrats and their consorts engaged in the monstrous practice of ignoring violent or antisocial behavior from their victim class of the week (Islamists, blacks, trans) to allow them to disparage actual victims.
The truth is, nobody gave a rat's ass about these loons until they joined with the Democrats to mutilate our children. So they want "vengeance" because we won't bend over and let them do it.
The US will never recover from Democrats, their LGBT bullshit, and their subservience to the CCP and cartels.
A recent article linked by Instapundit characterized "victimization" as "the coin of the realm."
No kidding!
Amadeus 48 said...
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Has anyone reached Sarah Palin for comment? Her traditional target location icon got turned into a gunsight by ignorant newsies after Gabby Giffords was shot by an apolitical lunatic. Gabby's husband has ridden that conflict into the US Senate.
4/2/23, 8:51 AM
I, too, was immediately reminded of the Palin "target" kerfuffle. You addressed it far better than I had, in my mind. Thx.
A pride parade to celebrate abortion of six people, including three children, and a transgender female pushed over the edge by Levine's follies and trans/activists endangering confused boys and girls through mutilation.
The tone in DC changed following the 2020 BLM events and then Jan 6. The whole place has a tense siege character when any event raises concerns among the local security organizations. They now place barricades on every street and snipers on every roof, with distinct echoes of the creepy, empty 2021 inauguration.
Perhaps missed in this post and by conventional thinking about the pro-gun crowd, many if not most gun political activists welcome gun ownership by transgendered people and see it as directly constitutional. They often speak of the racist anti-Black history of gun control laws. The Pink Pistols LGBTQ pro-gun group has been around since the year 2000. Libertarian is not equal to conservative. Forming a common national defense through universal gun ownership is anti-oligarch, anti-monarch, and anti-totalitarian. See Switzerland for a clear implementation of this model in the 20th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Pistols
Might as well cancel, since the "credible threat to life and safety" has already been carried out.
'credible threat to life and safety.'
This has meant in the past, parents showing up to a school board meeting to complain about their children being taught sex 5 years before they hit puberty.
Nice to see Twitter standing up for equality and banning the violent and hateful imagery of the left.
Maybe not a great idea in the first place. But certainly, not after one of their representatives went off during the week. Honestly, a lot less visibility, a lot less 'in your face' approach, and a lot more just get on with your life would go a long way toward their claimed desire for 'respect'. Though, it's hard to respect a cult.
There were fotos online of trans people brandishing weapons (guns) for Trans Day of Vengeance. Then the fotos mysteriously disappeared…
I thought that a credible threat to life and safety had been the whole point,
One more thing on this, Althouse, surprised no one has mentioned it:
That bold text-only poster, no art, declaring Transgender Vengeance, was showing up online all week long. As soon as I heard of the shooting by a trans, I knew they/she/he were obeying the orders, but jumping the gun by a little bit.
I declare it was the robust posting of those that set her boldly in motion.
It’s actually funny that the organizers of the Day of Vengeance are upset that they couldn’t feel safe while reeking their havoc. Violence for me, but not for thee.
This is not how you make friends and influence people...
'trans nutter kills six at Christian school' = 'flood of raw hatred directed toward the trans community' ?
If you say so.
You posit that this is common conservative iconography. I think I would like to see this on twitter/facebook to be sure. I do not really believe it.
Peterson and Shrier.
Here is video of a transgender rights supporter and umbrella enthusiast exercising her Canadian right to free speech in a discussion with a person who disagrees.
If the man had attempted to engage the lady in a Socratic dialog instead of just standing there this would never have become violent.
Might want to turn down the sound. They, at least a great many of them, have discovered that the rules don't apply to them and are putting that freedom to violate long standing norms to use.
1) No one is attacking or killing trans.
2) the issue they are freaking out about is that TN banned the transitioning of CHILDREN.
3) They have already broken into the state capitol building with a violent mob, an insurrection if you will, and killed 6. In another protest they have physically attacked anti-trans people. This does not suggest peaceful protest.
The growing violence by trans "community" is a concern, especially after police do nothing. The guy with the poster was very self controlled but the trans people are crazy.
'Individuals who had nothing to [do] with that heinous act have been subjected to highly serious threats and blamed only because of their gender identity." What's interesting to me is this part of the group's statement. Why are they surprised that members of the group are lumped in with the murderer? Don't they know that's how society works today? Just ask any right-leaning person, or a Christian, or a Republican. Everyone in the group is responsible for the words and actions of everyone else. People who never did the words/actions are considered accountable for those done by others. They should know that's the standard and not be surprised by it.
Individuals who had nothing to [do] with that heinous act have been subjected to highly serious threats and blamed only because of their gender identity. This is one of the steps in genocide, and we will continue our efforts to protect trans lives.'"
Well, did anyone try to make the argument that almost every American racist had nothing to do with the mass shooting at the grocery store in Buffalo?
If an act of violence is ideologically driven, then it seems to me to make sense to say that it tars the reputation of those who hold to that ideology, whatever that ideology may be.
I can’t help speculating that the Transies are using the Jussie Smollet playbook: simply manufacture the hateful behavior yourself (or in the Internet version, simply manufacture the claim that hateful behavior occurred). Then cancel your own event and use that cancellation to prove you’re a victim and the Other Side are evil vicious and wicked.
One big plus of this approach is simpler and cheaper logistics. You don’t need to organize the event or show up for it. Virtualized victimhood: it’s as real as the trans fetish!
We have a right to bear arms in self-defense, and the written words are "defend equality." It seems like many images I've seen from right wingers, conveying the message that you're armed and you will defend yourself.
The difference is that right wingers have not spent the last ~5 years telling everyone that speech is violence. "Defending" oneself has a very different meaning once you've decided that you have the right to commit violence against others for no reason other than speech that you disagree with.
@cf — I think that may be why the killer’s manifesto has not been released
Not sure who was threatening who with revenge.
"Individuals who had nothing to [do] with that heinous act have been subjected to highly serious threats and blamed only because of their gender identity."
Like law abiding gun owners? Is this an admission that the left is out to commit genocide against such gun owners?
One reality is that the "trans community" is minuscule which would have been revealed at the rally. The second is that people are finally catching on to what the "trans community" ( of a fraction of a per cent of the population) is attempting to foist off on the rest of us. The vast majority of the trans community is probably mentally ill, the rest are just plain nuts.
There's a significant point here. Which is, Vengeance for what? Why does this group/community think there is a need for vengeance?
There are forces actively working to make people think there is some system that is rigged against them, that They(tm) are trying to kill them, that there is a "genocide" being waged against trans people (or black men or conservative Christians or devout Muslims or heck the list can go on). Although one X person being killed for being X is too many the numbers indicate there is no "genocide" being waged.
So why try to make people fearful, anxious, resentful to the point that they might lash out in ways that are destructive? To destabilize the system to the point that society is torn down and to usher in Revolution. There is a pattern to the chaos. And the chaos has a Goal.
“One reality is that the "trans community" is minuscule which would have been revealed at the rally. The second is that people are finally catching on to what the "trans community" ( of a fraction of a per cent of the population) is attempting to foist off on the rest of us. The vast majority of the trans community is probably mentally ill, the rest are just plain nuts.”
I saw a photo of one such rally at one state capital, and there appeared to be fewer than a dozen protesters.
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