Ted Cruz Leaves FB, Twitter Executives Speechless by Asking if Mother Teresa Is Now Deemed ‘Hate Speech’

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I wouldn’t read too much into this.

First of all, there’s little evidence to indicate that the alleged tweet actually was censored, making this a loaded question. The very nature of a loaded question will leave the one asked stumped for a bit as they try to process it. For instance, if you get asked by a random person on the street, “When are you going to stop cheating on your spouse,” you probably won’t give a split-second reply. Heck, I was once left speechless of if the check for a meal was to come together or separate, because it was asked in a way that heavily implied I was dating the friend I was with, which I wasn’t.

Second, Cruz directed the question at both executives at the same time. This type of “anyone answer” question has a tendency to cause lengthy silence as people try to avoid interrupting someone, hence the joke, “Don’t everyone speak at once.” I seriously doubt a polite person who has had any reasonable amount of human interaction hasn’t had that experience, minus maybe the joke.

Third, the Twitter executive did start giving a response: It’s contextual based on many factors. Cruz just didn’t like it, probably because that disarms him. He can’t accuse them of going against their word if he has an example, but he also can’t accuse them of labelling the phrase itself as hate speech. And while that may seem to be a simply political move on the executive’s part (not that Cruz is any better - see first point), it’s frankly true. If you don’t believe me, just spend some time on this forum. Questions and statements may be taken differently based on the history, or lack thereof, people have with the user.

Fourth, while I can’t speak of how Facebook or Twitter do things from experience, I do know that some of this stuff is generally automated. For instance, one team I was on at Microsoft would first use an algorithm to gauge the general sentiment of a Tweet before having anyone look, as a way of prioritizing which ones to spend time on. Cruz’s question only makes sense under the assumption that these decisions are human ones (again, it is a loaded question), and in many cases, they aren’t. Humans might review it on request, but the scale that these companies work at is way too big for hiring an entire team to review everything.

Overall, just a lot of factors playing into this. Really, the second point alone makes me wonder how anyone could see this as anything more than Cruz doing a terrible job at leading this.
 
Watch the video. They were speechless for 9 seconds. It was not a surprise question; Cruz prefaced the question with plenty of lead in. The Twitter guy tried the dodge the question, and Cruz called him on it.
 
I would encourage rereading the points I made carefully because:
  1. It makes it clear that I did watch the video.
  2. It calls out Cruz’s prefacing as part of the problem.
  3. It addresses why there may be an extended pause.
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The Twitter guy tried the dodge the question, and Cruz called him on it.
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Cruz’s question was an obvious trap. If the answer is “no”, Cruz can challenge why it was removed, albeit without evidence, but that clearly isn’t a barrier for him. If the answer is “yes”, then Cruz gets the answer he put on this whole show for.

When given a question meant so obviously to trap the answerer, there’s a couple ways out:
  1. Go after a flaw in the question.
  2. Find an answer that’s not part of the trap.
The Twitter executive sort of did the first by pointing out that there was little reason to believe the tweet was censored given who it came from. That goes after Cruz’s lack of evidence.

What his answer did really do was embrace the second way. “It’s contextual” would be, to any reasonable person, an answer to the question, “Is this hate speech?” That’s the simple summary of what the Twitter guy was going after before Cruz started interrupting him.

Ultimately, Cruz wasn’t calling out a dodge. A dodge is throwing out a red herring or changing the subject, neither of which the Twitter executive did. Cruz was either angry that his lack of evidence (and possible lie) was challenged, is so unreasonable as to not realize that “it’s contextual” works, or was trying to get the Twitter executive back into the trap by acting unreasonable.
 
I heard a homosexual activist tell someone on TV that he considered the phrase, “love of Christ” to be hate speech.
 
Sure does…

Bon Jovi’s title song, “You Give Love a Bad Name”.
 
I find it interesting that politicians have become so skilled at keeping persons peering down rabbit holes. Compared to Mother Teresa, Ted Cruz has nothing in common with this saint. His ideology of a rising tide lifting all boats is vehemently contrary to Mother Teresa, who offered a lifetime of help to the boats that were “tied down” and did it through sacrifice combined with the dark night of the soul.

While the wealthy hide their taxes through every loop-hole available including overseas to avoid taxes in this country (traitorous) and pad the pockets of politicians to continue with the laws that allow them to do so, AND give them tax cuts as reward…No Sir. No comparison.

The irony of it all…
 
Bah! You’re just a LIBERAL who has been brainwashed by the LIBERAL media! Nothing you say matters because you’re a LIBERAL! And that isn’t an ad hominem…It is TRUTH!!! Ad hominem was invented by LIBERAL COMMIES to avoid the legitimate criticism that they are LIBERAL. But of course if you read the BIBLE and not your LIBERAL textbooks, you would know that!

And I shouldn’t have to say this, but I should: The above is not to be taken seriously.
 
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