A U.S. Senate candidate for Missouri says she has no plans to delete a transphobic tweet that violated Twitter’s rules against hateful conduct, even after the social media platform said she won’t be able to tweet, retweet, follow or like posts until she does.
Twitter suspended Vicky Hartzler ’s personal account on Monday.
Hartzler’s tweet, posted in mid-February, said: “Women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women,” and included her TV ad targeting transgender people in sports and particularly University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas.
A statement from Hartzler’s campaign called the suspension “shameful, utterly ridiculous, and a horrible abuse of censorship by big tech giants to stifle free speech.” The campaign said Hartzler will not delete the tweet.
Hartzler is a congresswoman representing Missouri’s 4th District. She is among several Republicans vying for the 2022 Senate seat. Incumbent Republican Roy Blunt announced last year he would not seek a third term.
(AP)
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I know- so hateful.
Next time someone claims they are a chair or a table or a tree I’ll have to agree otherwise it’s hateful.
They can all claim to be animals that’s the truth.
The fact that she won’t delete the tweet makes her probably the best candidate for the job! We need leaders with courage, with willingness to stand up for what they believe. Go Ms Hartzler!
Fabulous tweet. Mrs. Hartzler: Normal people all around the world support you and agree with you!
Shame on YWN for republishing this filthy piece of garbage, with the LYING headline. Normally headlines are written by the publisher, not by AP. Who wrote this one?
I stand 100% with Vicky Hartzler. Women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women. Women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women. Women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women. If that is “hateful conduct” then I am proud to be a hater, and anyone who disagrees with this “hateful conduct” should go directly to gehennom. I DARE “Gadol” and rt and Stevenn and all the usual Dem shills here to defend this headline and to condemn Hartzler. That will only show us all what they are.
And Twitter should worry very much about being punished next year, when Republicans retake Congress, and in two years when there’s a Republican president who I hope will go after them and prosecute them and destroy them.
PS:
Women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women.
Women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women.
Women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women.
Women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women.
Women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women.
Women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women.
Women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women.
Women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women.
Women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women.
Women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women.
Women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women.
Well, good for her.
yep, she is correct and twitter is not too smart….
She couldn’t have stated this much better. Time to support her and others like her who rise against enticers of morality and fairness.
“Yeshiva”world
decried “transphobia” as “hateful”
Disgusting.
How DARE you call yourselves Yeshivaworld?
Rot in gehennom.