Tim Pool, a radical centrist and boomer-whisperer, has been locked out of his Twitter account for using the term “groomer.”
Apparently, Twitter is instituting a policy that it is against homosexuality to criticize child molestation, and it is against the rules to be against homosexuals on Twitter.
Twitter has begun suspending accounts for using the pejorative “groomer,” deeming the label “hateful conduct” after appeals from left-wing voices to the social media giant.
“We are committed to combating abuse motivated by hatred, prejudice, or intolerance, particularly abuse that seeks to silence the voices of those who have been historically marginalized,” Twitter health product communications lead Lauren Alexander told the Daily Dot, which advocated for the change. “For this reason, we prohibit behavior that targets individuals or groups with abuse based on their perceived membership in a protected category.”
“Use of this term is prohibited under our Hateful Conduct policy when it is used as a descriptor, in context of discussion of gender identity,” she added. “We recognize we have more work to do to ensure this content is addressed in a timely and consistent manner and we continue to invest in our automated tools and people teams to identify and address gaps in our enforcement.”
The policy change has already been used to temporarily suspend James Lindsay, a mathematician and Twitter personality who tweeted “OK groomer” at Ari Drennen, LGBTQ program director at the far-left Media Matters:
Twitmo made me confess to another crime I don't actually recognize. Lmao. I recommend following me somewhere else too. Also follow @NewDiscourses. pic.twitter.com/SEbMaHfaxJ
— James Lindsay, America's top Christian nationalist (@ConceptualJames) July 27, 2022
Despite the framing of Twitter and its left-wing allies, however, “groomer’s” current usage is not about sexual orientation. The term traditionally refers to pedophiles’ manipulation of children in order to molest them. Over the past year, conservatives have adopted it to identify far-left activists who push sexually-charged topics on prepubescent children, from gender fluidity to same-sex attraction to sexual promiscuity.
Some have objected to this use of the label on the grounds that rhetorically tying one’s political opponents to pedophilia is tremendously severe, and these activists are generally not directly molesting children.
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Lindsay stands by using “groomer” to denote both sexual predators and those who indoctrinate children into “queer Marxist ideology.”
“I call people who engage in either of these grooming behaviors ‘groomers’ because it’s wrong to do and because that’s what they’re doing: grooming,” he told the Daily Caller.
I think it’s probably fair to call this “child molestation.”
I mean, you’ve all seen the videos we post here. There is a lot of touching of the small children by these homosexuals. But it is certainly psychological molestation.
And it is definitely “grooming.”
But hey – let’s hear what the homos have to say.
Neo-Nazis believe that Jews are destroying the white race. One way they are doing this is to encourage a single global culture which erases the distinctions between ethnic groups & cultures. This is global homogenisation, or ‘globohomo’.
— Tim Squirrell (@timsquirrell) July 28, 2022
A crucial element of this is the belief that queer identities can be “encouraged”, or that people can be manipulated into becoming gay or trans. In other words, that they can be “groomed”.
— Tim Squirrell (@timsquirrell) July 28, 2022
The expansion of the definition of ‘grooming’ is also not an accident. It conflates the attempts by actual paedophiles to abuse children with the mere existence of queer people in public spaces.
— Tim Squirrell (@timsquirrell) July 28, 2022
Addendum: white nationalists Patriotic Alternative are delighted by the reception they’re getting from these protests. They see this as an opportunity to recruit. Stoking the panic by portraying the protests sympathetically is playing into Nazis’ hands. pic.twitter.com/wdn8Zv76Ty
— Tim Squirrell (@timsquirrell) July 28, 2022