People should really drop the excuse "I follow plenty of people who have dissenting opinions from my own on Twitter and it doesn't mean I endorse them."
1. Anti-semitism, Nazism, bigotry, etc. are not dissenting opinions. They are beliefs. Beliefs that frequently lead to acts of violence, or worse, acts of genocide.
2. Following people like that can be considered an act endorsement.
Like, ya'll realize Twitter has always had a list function right? If you genuinely need to know or keep track of a person like that because they're frequently at the center of controversies or whatever, make a list. The list function is normally used to keep track of public figures or corporations or news accounts or whatever accounts without necessarily following them. You use lists like a resource for information or to keep up to date on events without clogging your feed. You can also name your lists, so if you make a list with Ben Sharpiro, Lauren Southern, Jordan B. Peterson, you can call the list The Idiot Brigade or whatever you want.
And following people like Ben Sharpiro, Lauren Southern, Jordan B. Peterson, etc., just tells me you genuinely hold interest in those people's words and actions to willingly follow them and to have them appear all over your timeline along with all the vile things they retweet.
1. Anti-semitism, Nazism, bigotry, etc. are not dissenting opinions. They are beliefs. Beliefs that frequently lead to acts of violence, or worse, acts of genocide.
2. Following people like that can be considered an act endorsement.
Like, ya'll realize Twitter has always had a list function right? If you genuinely need to know or keep track of a person like that because they're frequently at the center of controversies or whatever, make a list. The list function is normally used to keep track of public figures or corporations or news accounts or whatever accounts without necessarily following them. You use lists like a resource for information or to keep up to date on events without clogging your feed. You can also name your lists, so if you make a list with Ben Sharpiro, Lauren Southern, Jordan B. Peterson, you can call the list The Idiot Brigade or whatever you want.
And following people like Ben Sharpiro, Lauren Southern, Jordan B. Peterson, etc., just tells me you genuinely hold interest in those people's words and actions to willingly follow them and to have them appear all over your timeline along with all the vile things they retweet.
