Female journalists, politicians got abusive or hostile tweets every 30 seconds in study

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Female journalists and politicians were sent abusive or otherwise hostile tweets every 30 seconds on average in a study released by Amnesty International.

 

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MattSaccaro Take out that Toni Lauren chick n then see!!

Uh, duh.

The sun is hot. Water it wet. Thank you, next! 😒

Ya don’t say

peterdaou Well of course. Care to share the data?

BeautyofAshes time & money, was wasted on these 'findings'(?)! Seems like a 'slap in the face'- and just as abusive...all they had to do was open their 👀!

peterdaou Yadayadaaaaa

Whaaaaaat that’s wild

peterdaou What’s this? Is there a contest for the captain obvious tweet of the day?

What!!! The country is racist you say!! When did this happen?

You don't say! Even more shocking is that it's still happening.

So you needed a study to confirm and report the obvious. Open your eyes, we live this every single day. Welcome to the reality of black women.

Fake news

“we been knew” -black women

🤷🏼‍♂️

Because no one is gonna stay defending Black women except other Black women. Easy target. No consequences for attacking us.

Wbk but throw that 💰 at it I guess

You needed a study for this?

Thats because people think that they can shove Bernie down our throats. He's their Jesus not ours.

seyiakiwowo

Well, they are non-White, in the system of Racism White Fear, aka, Racism White Supremacy, which is Racism! SURPRISE! This is a mental fitness problem.

AprilDRyan I have a few questions for you. Do you advocate for all women or just women of color? It seems to me you are racist, you never advocate for all women, just minority women. You say all blacks arent alike. Well all whites aren't alike. Women should pull 2gether reguardless of race

We knew this tho. This is for all the YT people in the back

If you didn’t see this after what happened with Leslie Jones, then you’re just clueless.

Define abusive please.

Well damn you don’t say?

optimista_un So DELETE the abusive users!!! Twitter

These platforms gave your average racist a digital mask, one they usually only take off amongst family and friends in real life and allowed them to spew hate to the people they hate. Anyone not like them. There is nothing less patriotic they would become traitors before equal

Yup

Did we need to do a study to figure this out? Are we going to do a study next on the demographic writing those tweets?

OH u don't say

Social media is bad for us...says everyone on social media

I'm going to need you to put the capital 'B' in Black. Who wrote this? He or she should be canned. This is why MSM is failing. Crappy writers like this.

It don't matter cause white people will still say 'well I don't see race'

Tweeting while black

Keep playing identity politics and we will never move foward as a nation.

mr_jettlife

I think jemelehill probably gets 83 of that 84%. Keep up the good fight, J.

and jack doesnt give a shit about it

Oh my god. They really don’t like us do they?

Combining Black & Latina numbers to compare to white is problematic. Latina women were targeted much less than white women who were slightly less targeted than Asian and Mixed women who were all SIGNIFICANTLY less targeted than Black women

Targeted by whom? Their own?

And in other news the sky is blue

We must all be kinder. Let kindness be your beacon.

what is funny is that jouralists become abusive and more hateful Person toward ...... never mind

Did you also know that H2O, commonly referred to as 'water', is wet

So, like, racism transcends real life? I'm shocked. (Narrator: She's actually not shocked.)

Why is Everything about the color of someone skin . First all people are Human beings women & man ..it shouldn't Matter what color someone is... We all blood the same red blood ..

I can attest to that.

So sad

Did counting hostility towards trans women far surpass the counters maximum?

This isn't news for the people who live it.

AprilDRyan God don’t like ugly

This is just a statistic without giving a reason. REASON: When Linda Sarsour calls for Jihad against a sitting President to diabolically provoke negative reactions, when Ilhan Omar insults Jesus to diabolically provoke negative reactions, negative reactions is what they will get.

Now let's focus on the demographic that is CAUSING THE PROBLEM.

Black women are constantly & deliberately targeted every single day on all social media platforms with the most disturbing & vitriolic hatred and nothing is done about it.

What does ‘problematic’ mean because I sure as hell see a Lot of attacks on white folks

That’s because they talk back the most. real

The stats mean NOTHING without acta data used. Make up of people doing abuse. If you count rappers then the majority is black on black abuse. Stop wasting time on this crap

That lead sentence is terrible, please recast it; it implies the researchers sent abusive tweets every 30 seconds to the women in the study. editing

It's not just Twitter. Over the last 3 years, noticed 'white' men are more willing to publicly berate minority women. They will threaten even veterans like me with deportation, screaming racial slurs and 'white' on-lookers will just let them. Resisters VetsAgainstTrump

...and this study surprised NO ONE.

Sad situation. Makes you ashamed to be white😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

It's…almost like the complaints black women have held about how they're constantly mistreated and demonized are all true…

The data is there. Time to stop arguing with those who lived this experience and do something to fix it.

neeratanden Racism runs deep in America. White Supremacy is our national history. As a white woman, I've got to own up to how I benefit from it & fight against it.

scottwongDC How does this Correlate to the population demographics?

Amnesty international ...would love to see the biased assed data they used to come up with this nonsense

Water is wet.

_BlackMuses Tell me something I don't know

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say 'Duh'.

democrats are all about racism.

Not to add fuel here but don’t black, mixed-race, asian and Latin American’s out number the caucasians as a total... wouldn’t it be plausible to think that no matter what study is performed, it would still point to that result out of sheer numbers... 🤔

FirstGentleman Utterly shocked

Again you want censorship. Twitter etc. can silence whoever they want, but once it becomes a one sided platform they’re done. Don’t like a reply block the sender, just takes a couple clicks.

Misogyny, along with racism, is alive and thriving in the U.S.!

I’m shocked. NOT.

And what’s the usual profile of their abusers?

☝️ coming from u I'm not surprised 🙄

LauraF007 If you’re tired of negativity there are alternatives Bars_app

Tgjfd vfj fthvr bytp

Sick!!!

Well, I’m stunned... truly stunned.

AprilDRyan

AprilDRyan I love my Black sisters. They bring sunlight to each day. This statement doesn’t detract from other women, just a positive statement in one direction.

AprilDRyan And that's just the president's tweets!

IAmSophiaNelson Completely unacceptable.

And yet no one is doing anything abt that. Especially twitter & Instagram. How is some1 is telling some1 else to kill herself isn't harassment B aware she doesn't even know the person but just saying it to be hateful.

hankgreen CitationNeeded. cite how the data was gathered and interpreted.

Yes, true. Can't tell you how many times I've been told to 'go back to my country', 'go back to my territory', 'I'll send you back to your island mother f...ker'. Never mind that I'm from Puerto Rico, which makes my island your island too. It's both, sad and disgusting.

Well we can all agree that this poll didn't include PressSec or FLOTUS because MSM attack them daily. YouAreTheEnemy

AprilDRyan American history past/present is for minority groups (race, gender, sexuality) to be ridiculed, attacked, dismissed. We keep saying we're a better nation then this but the facts don't support that argument/belief.😔

AprilDRyan WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What about multi-racial seniors?

The worse part is that sometimes we report very offensive tweets and guess what? Twitter does nothing about it.

AprilDRyan This is so sad. When does the hatred stop.

AprilDRyan I bet people didn’t realize that all the bullies and devil 👿 act comes from people who backgrounds are white European simple is that

BlackVoice4u Deactivate Trump's phone

That is so true. I found that we still have no voice for some people.

But conservatives r being targeted? How about u cover this JoeNBC WillieGeist jheil

AprilDRyan As a nation we have much needed improvements. Adult Education is a major crisis in the USA. It is like we need Sesame Street to educate how to treat others, how to ground bad characteristics for the betterment of society is a goal worthy of undertaking

GovHowardDean WHO was mentioning them might tell more of the story eh?

AprilDRyan That's just sad! Racism still exists. Desegregation didn't solve the problem.

AprilDRyan Ugh, very upsetting

AprilDRyan How, when you tell race via a tweet?

Shocking!!!

AprilDRyan Oh my. What a surprise this is.

AND, if you remove abusive or hostile comments about Ivanka, Melania, Laura Ingram, DeVos, Nielsen, Kellyanne and SHS out of the mix, the results for white women are skewed. 🙃

IBexWeBex Oh BoOhoO. Why does this matter?

DrTGIF

Ms. Ocasio2018 understands this. 😤

Rac baiting y the liberal media aka the democrats propaganda machine

Study is fake. Like your news

So..... who are they receiving these tweets from? What is the racial makeup of the sender? I think that might make it a more complete picture of what is happening here....Don't you?

Sign of the sad times we live in.

EXHIBIT A: sarahjeong 😂

dekatron_man If This study is compared to Facebook in my opinion Twitter wins every time!!!

I'm not surprised at all. BlackWomen💜

Any relationship to the content of what these women tweeted first or does that not make it into your “study”. 🙄

84%

KarenAttiah Maybe, just maybe some black women are abusive too, so they get a hit back..! At least I know one black woman uses abusive tweets, so it’s only fair that she deserves abusive tweets back..! Just saying..! 😂😂 I hope she never quit her tweets, she is fun..! 😂😂

All the racist remarks already made have made me bold - what is the % of white journalists now? I cant remember the last time I saw a female caucasian journalist delivering the news on location.

JamilahLemieux nhannahjones

Useless information

IBexWeBex

Is this supposed to be surprising or what?

It’s crazy how spiteful abusive women can be towards other women on Twitter. Especially when those women on the receiving end are Trump supporters...and especially minority Trump supporters.

How about you make it more accurate: White males attack and abuse black and other female persons of color who are journalists, reporters, or posting on twitter or Facebook, more often than they attack white women. White Males have serious ego issues that they cannot handle.

So should we abuse white women more

BrandonOnDrums U don't say

LisaTalmadge 😡🤬

Well when you equate a man saying hello to sexual assault those numbers are going to skyrocket......just saying. STOPTHEINSANITY

hankgreen Holy fuck, you just can't quantify these things based on identity politics - people mostly get hate for who they are and what they say: particularly journalists and politicians.

Using Twitter is a choice. If you don’t like it, leave. The app is free!!!!

Cue white boys to pipe up about 'identity politics.'

Oh, domestic abuse happens: across the board. Except money 'covers' the abuser by paying the abused! Why, the politicians have made the headlines. [ I will believe it when a written report is established and made accessible for the gen. Public]

2KllMckngBrd

I hate the world the Left has created where we have completely regressed back to a world of race, class and gender identity. It was once evil, now it’s woke. How did this happen?

vernsviews What percentage of tweets to male journalists and politicians were abusive-problematic? A 7 percent toxicity isn’t bad, for all we hear about Twitter

ForeverLogical RussionFarms

I hate all women and I'm fine being alone. If I had to share my money and assets with a woman, it would probably be with a white woman. I still feel ww are the most conniving. If Twitter does a study, I'll bet ww are violently murdered the most.

I AM SO ASHAMED OF MY WHITE SKIN

Ocasio2018 can talk about this.

harrisonjaime facebook is trash.

I’m shocked! 🙄

rolandsmartin It surprising

harrisonjaime Shocked!! Shocked I say!!!

Helloooo. We live in a historically racist, sexist society. It doest't take a study to unearth that.

you don't say...

Wtf does 'problematic' mean? Something tells me this 'study' is trash.

wow

And, you believe it?

And wtf is a problematic tweet? Please. Until we see the actual statistics this means nothing.

So believable

Did the research cover both genders or only women?

ForeverLogical Because social media is so easy to use that rednecks do it too.... or orangenecks

Only 34% more...?

This is nuts: 'The study also found that black, mixed-race, Asian and Latina women were mentioned in abusive or problematic tweets 34 percent more often than white women, while black women specifically were targeted 84 percent more often than white women.'

Yeah but White dudes kill their women is wacky ways.

It’s “just jokes” so it’s ok.

andreagrimes Every single article about this report about a very limited study uses a title which is either misleading or without meaning. This headline makes it sound like each woman is getting on average an abusive message every 30 seconds.

Such a WEIRD “study”... how did they do it? Read a bunch of tweets? Which ones?

It's a good idea for a study. Of course, they used AI. So would the AI distinguish varying use of language... specifically, black women may use the N** and B** words more often, but not mean it in a hostile manner.

So what’s being done about them targeting each other?

Doubtful. Twitter has basically endorsed anti-white tweeting.

Right, because how a 'problematic tweet' is defined. You can talk trash about a white person, no problem. But if you monkey up a tweet about a black person, its problematic.

Our country in a nutshell

Yes...Trump has been tweetimg a lot lately.

You don’t say?

Do you think there just might be a reason for that...it's called behavior.

djolder jack is worried about little Tucker Carlson though

I'll say it again, people who Tweet™ under their real name and gender are idiots.

Lol “Things I shall waste my time on to finish out 2018”

Who cares?

ShutDownTwitter

NBC race baiting again!

And pray tell who were they targeted by? Black men?

rolandsmartin 😳

In other news, people on internet are surprised that other people can be mean on the internet.

rolandsmartin I been called every name you can think of

NBC trying to Get a Race war going again......

NBC trying to generate anger with their biased research study. So blatant.

pablohidalgo I'm glad someone did the study. Things like this need to be called out.

I find this report 100% stupid

Ok?!

300,000 DISAPPEAR/YR IN AMERICA....Wake up.

Women of Color are only getting stronger smarter bolder steadier louder... So get used to it!!!

Is that a so-called “black Twitter” thing? 😏

Don't be a SUCKER, to MSM...

Does the study have controls for what race of women were more likely to tweet stuff that baits the other side of the aisle?

Yes, we all know about Twitter's infamous pro-white bias....

Now I have a mixed race family and have dated all of the aforementioned women. The Asians especially south Asians and maybe Koreans as well as my black ladies, tend to cause way more trouble when They get riled up.

Make them color blind not to see women in their color .

Anti white racism is the only acceptable form of racism today.

Idk but I find my tweets being deleted due to my opposing views and ideologies. Suppression of speech is way more dangerous than calling somebody a name

Oh jeez

No shit.

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