Published on 12, July, 2020
I'm generally open minded and unprejudiced, so I was surprised when I got suspended from Twitter for this tweet. I've left mine and my friend's Twitter names on there because we have nothing to hide, we don't use racist names or anything. FFS. Can anyone shed light about why this tweet was so 'hateful'? I've appealed because it is so stupid.
It's the monkey emoji, it has racist connotations.
You have to be very careful in some situations.
Recently, a teacher was suspended and eventually sacked from a school. His crime? He addressed his class as boys and girls, one of the pupils who considered themselves to be non binary, accused him of discrimination. This lead to a full investigation etc.
Had to look this one up. Is it this guy?
https://metro.co.uk/2017/11/12/teacher-suspended-after-calling-a-trans-boy-a-girl-7073286/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-53650010
For the record other newspaper websites are available.
The see no evil monkey on a post about Scooby Doo? That is ridiculous. If I'd put a monkey on a post about racist subjects, I could understand it, but I use that monkey (obviously) to show embarrassment. Why do they have the monkey emoji on their list if it's racist? Why not remove it?
I'm not disbelieving you though, just saying it is stupid.
Oh I see what you added there. Even I am starting to think this is going too far, when generally I approve of PC-ness.