Facebook’s Complicity in the Silencing of Black Women

Of course it doesn't justify the threats or anything that she got on twitter or facebook, but technically her tweet was racist to begin with. (Joking about people being racist just because of their skin color.)

By the way I'm always amazed by the fact that citizens of a first-world country can be so primitive to actually threaten anybody because of a bad tweet...

> Person writes a tweet insulting a very large group of society.

> Acts surprised when a minority of that group retaliates, albeit it very offensively.

It sucks, but thats just another day on social media in $CURRENT_YEAR.

I wonder if her posts got flagged by her own friends. Is that how it would work? Even if that is the case, this is a pretty ugly outcome that Facebook should try and avoid. Another case of unexpected negative consequences of algorithmic decision making...

Maybe the original post was a little racist. But it was to a far less degree of intensity than the messages she received. If a white person tweeted "I cant walk through this black hood I'm gonna get shot!" and a black person responded "kill yourself you inferior genetic third world white" that would be over the top too. The other commenters should stop making false equivalence.

Yeesh. That article is toxic from top to bottom.