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I posted this comment on my own Facebook page, on a post about the horrifying assault on women in Texas, by the Texas GOP. I’m unclear how a general statement like this, not in reply to anyone or even on someone else’s page, is harassment or bullying.

Facebook gave me a choice to either accept this, or dispute it. If I accept it, it goes as a permanent strike against me. If I dispute it (I did) they’ll … eventually get to it, I guess. Either way, I’m in Facebook jail for three days. It feels real authoritarian and arbitrary to me.

I just want to reaffirm my contempt for Texas Republicans and the white women who voted for them. They are fucking garbage humans who deserve to fall into a well filled with vomit, never to emerge.

Also, the bullshit Facebook decides is out of bounds makes no sense to me. Facebook is totally fine with domestic terrorists organizing violence, and anti-vaxx liars spreading lies that get people killed, but you tell Texas Republicans to go fuck themselves, and that’s just too much for Facebook’s delicate sensibilities.

What a bunch of bullshit.

Edit 9/8/21: I am confident this whole thing was triggered by a White Fragility brigade, and I’d like to invite those delightful people to suck it.

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6 September, 2021 Wil

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106 thoughts on “and a hearty fuck you to facebook, too.”

  1. Art James says:
    7 September, 2021 at 6:46 am

    My hat’s off to you Wil.

  2. Sharon E. Cathcart says:
    7 September, 2021 at 6:47 am

    Right there with you, Wil … except that I am serving 30 days in the hole for three letters (GFY) in response to a serial harasser. The harasser’s behavior, of course, was not found to violate TOS.

    FB is clearly targeting liberals to be silenced because the man I call Klukkerberg is all-in with the far right. Anyone who believes his pap about there being one set of community standards for all is deluding themselves.

  3. Getting the word out says:
    7 September, 2021 at 6:50 am

    Thanks for saying it Will. I live in Texas and as a woman I am completely appaled.

  4. misangela says:
    7 September, 2021 at 6:54 am

    Welcome to the FB Criminals Club! I got banned for saying Americans are dumb. You’re on the list now! I have taken all my content back to my blog. FUCK FB. I still post stupid memes and comment on my friends’ stuff, but my CONTENT is on my blog. People who scream “free speech” clearly do not understand the concept of private company. YES, FB can do whatever they please with your content and they can ban you for whatever they please. Which is why real content needs to be OFF FB. Luckily I still follow this feed to LJ, no less, and saw this there. FB does not deserve anyone’s content. Ever.

  5. Stardreamer says:
    7 September, 2021 at 7:00 am

    This is why I have been a long time fan of yours. You are not afraid to speak the truth and use the F word. Thank you for helping fight the good fight.🖖😻

  6. Mugsimegatron says:
    7 September, 2021 at 7:11 am

    It’s a matter of wording, my friend. If you want to fight in the big arena you need to be aware of the game being played, their rules, then alter their rules to suit your purpose in order to get your points across without actually beating them up. After all, that is the end result they expect and want. You played right into their hand (cards – usually poker style. Chess and backgammon, especially Russian as no one starts on the board. Other games can apply and some switch games midway. You have to outsmart them.
    Many of my lessons came from Star Trek. I learned a lot from your character. What did you take from your time with the actual life lessons taught by every single episode? Some where about how bad people can be but we need to recognize the behavior of both good and bad people and groups of. We are to grow from these lessons. Star Wars, The Matrix, many others. Take advantage of your opportunity of being above the scum that resides down in the trenches where I stay afloat thanks to characters such as Wesley Crusher!

  7. Dan says:
    7 September, 2021 at 7:12 am

    You know it was the “white women” part that did it, right? If someone had written about “black trans” people in the same way, I think most would agree that it was out of line.

  8. Angela L. says:
    7 September, 2021 at 7:17 am

    I mean…only one of many reasons I’m trying to move away from FB (and others). I’m going back to newsletters, forums, blogs, etc. wherever possible.

  9. Peter says:
    7 September, 2021 at 7:33 am

    It may not have even been the bit about telling the Texas Repubs to fuck off. It could very well have been the shot at white women. Shitbook seems to have a super huge white fragility thing going on in their content moderation filters where when you say shit about white people, flags get thrown, accounts get hammered and other stupid things. More reasons that site is dumb.

  10. Wayne says:
    7 September, 2021 at 7:52 am

    I’m a big fan of the Church of Satan: they’re challenging the State of Texas under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act saying that the two drugs used in abortions are part of their religious sacraments, and the CoS is recognized as a religious organization.

    At the very least, it’ll stir up quite a ruckus in the courts and cause TX to split their attention.

    1. Glen P says:
      7 September, 2021 at 9:24 pm

      They’re great.

      Is that the one that doesn’t believe in all that mumbo-jumbo but runs the religion as a lark to expose religious b.s. and abuses in general?

      1. Wayne says:
        8 September, 2021 at 7:20 am

        That’s the one! I really like their style. And just today, I see this quote from the Texas AG: “Texas will work tirelessly to make sure that we eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas by aggressively going out and arresting them and prosecuting them…”
        — TX Gov. Greg Abbott, defending his state’s anti-abortion bill

        So WTF? They weren’t trying to eliminate rapists from the streets of TX BEFORE the abortion ban?

        I live next to TX, we have LOTS of TX vehicles roaming our streets, and I’d be a big fan of TX secession or Build The Wall.

  11. Jason V says:
    7 September, 2021 at 8:17 am

    Not to excuse it at all, but the the reason they banned you is that you directly insulted 2 protected classes (race, gender) by including “white women” in your comment.

    I agree 100% with what you said, but that’s why the banhammer fell.

  12. oogiecatt says:
    7 September, 2021 at 8:26 am

    This Texas resident couldn’t agree more. We are still fighting and we need help. Hopefully many of the people moving here will be voting against the #ToxicTexasGOP and their fucking agenda against women and anyone else that doesn’t agree with them.

  13. Jason Marshall Thomas (@darkmage) says:
    7 September, 2021 at 10:46 am

    Oh, it’s much worse than that. Just try posting “men are pigs” and see how quickly they ban you. Ask me how I know.

  14. Dale Davis says:
    7 September, 2021 at 2:08 pm

    Nicely Done Wil. I took a screenshot and shared it to my page.

  15. Bessie Denker says:
    7 September, 2021 at 2:18 pm

    I say this with love and respect: the sentiment “fuck you white women” is a perfectly reasonable and fair one to express in the context you expressed it IF you are a person of colour, or even a white woman. But you are a white man, and white men voted for these fucksticks in even greater numbers than white women. It is a little tone deaf, and faintly misogynistic, for you to be expressing this enmity towards white women without also calling out white men. A group which you are a part of, and have a responsibility to call out. Can I suggest next time you call out white people?

    1. Glen P says:
      7 September, 2021 at 9:37 pm

      Meh I’m a white man, and I’ve literally not talked with my white woman neighbor since October 2020, when she completely unbeknownst to me exposed herself as a Trump MAGAt by putting up a Trump 2020 flag.

      I mean had she just quietly voted for him, or just said she was going to vote for him / voted for him, I might have forgiven her by now as just a completely oblivious ignorant twit. But being SO utterly disgustingly pro-Trump that you’d buy a large flag and put it on your house, tells me A LOT about who she is as a person that I never knew.

      She may as well have put up a Swastika flag or an I Love Hitler flag. And yes, Trump was has bad as Hitler. He just didn’t get as far nor have the lack of controls of Hitler. But Trump was of the exact same mindset and used the exact same sorts of rhetoric and ideological authoritarian fascist beliefs that drove Hitler. If not for the tenuous controls we have in place he’d already be well on his way to Hiter’esque infamy.

      I have absolutely nothing but contempt for Trump supporters/voters. In 2016 you could claim some measure of ignorance/stupidity. But after 4 years of seeing his reprehensible behaviors, vile words, treasonous actions, total incompetence, abject immorality, corruption, and criminality, the ignorance excuse no longer flies.

    2. cassiemakaryk says:
      8 September, 2021 at 11:36 pm

      I suspect the only white men who use the phrase “fuck white women” would also agree with the statement “white men are the fucking worst”. To me, it goes without saying who the bigger problem is, and I don’t need Wil to redirect his anger for the sake of clarifying that point, since that’s not the point he’s trying to make. There is indeed something especially disturbing about women voting to take away other women’s rights, and I appreciate the contempt he has for them.

  16. Kane Magus says:
    7 September, 2021 at 2:58 pm

    I deleted my Facebook account around a year and a half ago, and I don’t regret it and haven’t missed it for a single second.

  17. Rob siegmann says:
    7 September, 2021 at 4:02 pm

    Amen brother it’s especially bad for a white men to tell women what they canning cannot do with their bodies

  18. Violet Blue says:
    7 September, 2021 at 4:36 pm

    So basically Facebook lied about making this change: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/facebook-comments-algorithm-racism-b1766209.html and still qualifies white people as an elevated, protected class (FB claims to use that old racist “color blind” trope as their measuring stick). Just marinating that algo in systemic racism IMO… Ugh.

  19. Walter says:
    7 September, 2021 at 7:43 pm

    Love your commentary. I almost feel like it is impossible to get any positive momentum in the state of Texas at all. It seems hopeless.

    I live in North Carolina, and have found three politicians that I have thrown my unconditional support.

    I have donated money to all of three politicians ever.

    One has held a Federal House of Representative seat for NC for decades, David Price. If you like California Federal Justice Andrew Schopler, your should like Mr. Price. Andrew and I grew up in Prices district and have looked you to him since the ninth grade.

    Jeff Jackson and Jasmine Beach-Fererra are two people that I believe will , like David Price, make a positive impact on all of our lives once they are elected.

    I don’t even care if you support them financially.

    I just want for you to look them up, so that you can have some hope in our country’s future together.

  20. Walter Pickard says:
    7 September, 2021 at 7:52 pm

    Jasmine Beach-Fererra is running against Madison Cawthorn. For the House of Representatives.

    He is an absolute turd.
    She gives me hope that politicians will one day find the way to work together to find solutions that benefit all of us without harming any of us.

    Please look her up. I doubt that you will be disappointed.

  21. Jules Crego says:
    7 September, 2021 at 8:51 pm

    Amen Wil. I’ve been on the verge too long, it’s time to tell FB fuck off.

  22. Cyn Hanrahan says:
    7 September, 2021 at 9:07 pm

    Posted this to my nearly abandoned FB page. Let’s here it for a strike on my “permanent record”!

  23. Pam says:
    8 September, 2021 at 2:03 pm

    It’s a fine line because everyone shouts at Facebook to censor people like Trump and bigotry, which they should, but then where does Facebook stop? We want them to censor violent language against women and minorities, but where does that stop? I’m betting this post was censored because of the white woman comment. As a white male who posts anger specifically aimed towards women of any kind, your post is going to be flagged. And I have to say, that as a female, even though I agree with you politically, reading the post made me cringe a bit.

  24. John Grimes says:
    8 September, 2021 at 8:26 pm

    Mark Fuckerberg is on a power trip. I always thought Facebook was kind of demented and sub-mental. I refused to use it until I needed to. I have seen anti-semitic stuff on there which hadn’t been removed. I hope Zuckerberg chokes on all that money the greedy pig. As for Wil and his comments. His is just venting. Give him some lee way.

  25. Nadine Thirkell says:
    15 September, 2021 at 4:38 am

    I have long since known that fb’s bullshit ToS are total garbage. Tout lies get a pass, tell a liar to fuck off, immediate suspension. I left that flaming pile of dung years ago & feel so much better for it. Welcome to the club.

  26. Jerri says:
    16 September, 2021 at 3:51 pm

    I hear ya Wil. I’ve been chastised by fb twice for simply REPOSTING someone else’s post. I don’t argue, I just don’t respect fb enough to care. Hang in there bud👍

  27. John Grimes says:
    2 October, 2021 at 7:21 am

    I don’t live in America but in Australia there are strict cut off dates as I understand it. I don’t like abortion and nobody in their right mind would but some women to need it as a medical thing. To me it is between and a woman and their God. If their god doesn’t like what they are doing I am sure said God will let them know.

    1. John Grimes says:
      2 October, 2021 at 7:35 am

      I try not to get involved in the abortion debate. It is just futile. I don’t believe in all that late term stuff. There should
      be a cut off date set at a very sensible level but many argue about what that should be. The problem with the debate
      as I see it is Evangelicals trying to force their view point on women who don’t agree with it. Why do people want abortions ?
      Medical reasons. Kids that are not wanted. Let’s not kid ourselves. They are not wanted.

  28. WorthyL says:
    2 October, 2021 at 10:36 pm

    We both know it, Facebook ceased a long time ago to have any legitimacy as a platform. Anything which promotes eyeballs is to be tolerated and encouraged – anything which “Harshes the Mellow” is to be avoided. There are different standards for you and for me than for Russian trolls and Conservative politicians promoting quack science. If it were not the place where I could see my friends baby pictures (etc.), I would have dropped it years ago.

    I live in Texas, this is unfortunately my reality. This is my fight. If you want to help – please support our progressive candidates with words, deeds and hopefully actions. We are far more “purple” than “red” here.

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