The #FreeStacy Story: Why Was My @rsmccain Account Suspended?

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Unexpectedly, and without explanation, my @rsmccain Twitter account was suspended Friday evening. Based on past experiences, my guess would be that this resulted from a complaint by one of the leading “social justice warriors” (SJWs) who have been at war with #GamerGate since August 2014. However, there was no reason stated for the suspension, and who knows? So I’ve switched to the @SexTroubleBook account I created to promote my book and meanwhile, friends who are fed up with Twitter’s bias and censorship started the #FreeStacy hashtag. This morning I shared some thoughts with a blogger friend who followed the #GamerGate saga:

As I have said for years: Being notorious is not the same as being famous, but it’s better than being anonymous.
That is to say, I don’t often complain about being hated or misunderstood. It comes with the territory. I started out in the news business as a $4.50-an-hour staff writer for a tiny weekly newspaper in Austell, Georgia. Most people have no idea what I did before I got involved in political journalism as an assistant national editor for The Washington Times in 1997, or even have any idea of the work I did there. The vast majority of people who read my blog or follow my Twitter feed have no knowledge of or interest in my personal “backstory.” It’s not about me. I am not the story. I am the guy telling the story, or I am the guy making jokes about the story. I understand that. But I think some people in the New Media era lose sight of this reality.
Politics is like football. It’s a team sport. Until I was in my mid-30s, I was a very partisan Democrat. Bill Clinton (who I voted for in 1992) cured me of my Democrat loyalty. During the 1990s, I began a rather deep autodidactic study of politics, history, economics, philosophy, etc. My politics are conservative, my economics are Austrian, my faith is Christian. It’s that simple — and certain people HATE me for it. But those people hate everybody who is not a Democrat. Fine. I understand that kind of hate, having once been a Democrat myself, but Democrats think of their personal hatred as “social justice.” And so I understand them better than they understand me.
However, it’s not about me. . . .

You can read the whole thing at The Ralph Retort.

This has been a crazy experience, but then again, my whole life has been a crazy experience, so I’m cool with it.

UPDATE: Linked by Darleen Click at Protein Wisdom, Legal Insurrection, Da Tech Guy Blog, Battleswarm, featured at Twitchy, Vox Day, now a Memeorandum thread and welcome, Instapundit readers!

UPDATE II: Robby Soave quotes me accurately at Reason magazine, and they’ll probably never forgive him for it.

UPDATE III: Here’s a podcast I did today:

UPDATE IV: Linked by Donald Douglas at American Power and by Dean Esmay at Dean’s World. Arguably the most interesting post, however, is Ken White at Popehat explaining why he really, really dislikes me and yet . . .

Well, he hates me with every fiber of his being, which is OK. It is a free country, and nobody is required to like me, or even to pretend to like me. However, if Hillary is elected president and our nation descends into anarchy and civil war, and from this chaos emerges a military junta in need of a Supreme Leader as figurehead of New America, I’m available for the gig.

Under such a regime, Generalissimo McCain will not only be obeyed, but also respected and, in fact, it will be the duty of his people to admire and praise the Generalissimo.

Is such an outcome . . . likely? Probably not, but you can’t say it is impossible. You are my people, America, and should circumstances require me to rescue our beloved nation — a swift coup d’état, at a time of crisis — then you understand it will be my duty to answer the call. The Enemies of the People will tremble! And the enemies of the Generalissimo are also the Enemies of the People, obviously.

Blog wars? The Generalissimo will be merciful. It would ill behoove the junta to be settling personal grudges and besides, our manpower will be strained to its limits, rounding up Women’s Studies majors and feminist Tumblr bloggers, giving them a few days’ training, loading them onto C-130s and dropping them by parachute into places like Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, etc., as part of our effort to bring about world peace.

 




 

427 comments

  1. I know, right? Why should anyone be able to use anything at there disposal, be able to fight against leftist ideology? They MUST be silenced, everywhere, because you disagree with them.

  3. ‘Private property rights is “fascism” now?’

    Not strickly speaking, but total intolerance for disenting points of view is characteristic of fascists.

  8. Haha! You think he got an email! That’s not how the Party works, Comrade! Sentence first, trial afterward – maybe!

  11. How much of a pathological liar or how low must one’s I.Q. be to say McCain randomly attacks women and gays?

  12. These people are very irrational and believe what they “feel” and their feeling are not rooted in reality.

  13. Yeah. A couple of them over there were whining about being banned. Things were a little rough when you first started, but I think you do a good job here. I disagree with some of what RSM says, but that just means He and I aren’t robots. He certainly ain’t a cuckservative, though. That accusation is simply absurd.

  16. Depends on what you call “trash talking.” Since “Trash Talking” consists of quoting the people who get the badfeelz, then you can’t have anyone holding them to shame and ridicule by quoting them. Nononononono and thousand times nonononono!

    The only think perverse about SJWs is their hypocrisy. There is no “obsession” here, or among any of conservative group you may wish to name. If you idiots would quit being such leftard hypocrites, there would be no problem, but all you can do is lie through your teeth and do your best to destroy anyone that disagree with the rank sewage you spew. That’s where the obsession is located – in the minds of you leftards.

    By the by, Twitter is now a “Public Accommodation,” a term you leftards love to use against everyone who disagrees with you, but truly hate when turned on you. The Stalinist committee is setting Twitter up for a lawsuit it may not be able to survive.

  19. […] Stacey McCain is a reporter. He’s Catholic, fertile, intelligent, courageous and truth telling. He has confronted rorts on the left and the right. (More on the left, because that is where the rorts are). He has daughters, so he investigated feminism and was horrified. He tweets on that. Twitter have thus banned him. […]

  20. Who didn’t see this coming, and just in time for the election… Now you know why democrats want to reverse Citizians United.

  21. Remember “Sweet Cakes” fascist? Just remember the term “Public Accommodation.” I think you’re going to regret the absurd lawfare you fascists have engaged in over the last 20 years.

  22. Well I’m used to seeing that level of lunacy in a state hospital. There used to be a time when the mentally deranged were locked up and medicated.

  23. Nah. You’ve described the SJWs that are taking charge at Twitter, though. Disqus functions just as it should.

  25. I’m impressed to see that you’re sticking up for the right of lunch counters in North Carolina to discriminate. Bold stance!

  31. I was going to mock and harass you in a sarcastic and ironic way for your true assessment, but you’ve taken so much abuse that I didn’t have the heart to.

    So I’ll just go with “Well said”.

  33. It’s always a good day when you say or do something publically and your kids aren’t embarrassed by it.

    I’m still waiting for that day.

  34. I don’t like to use social media (except message boards), but I recently discovered a Twitter/Tumblr replacement called FreezePeach, which is based on GNUSocial. Will someone that actually likes social media try it out and let me know how it is?

  37. And they aren’t being raised by two parents of the opposite sex. They are being brainwashed by the media and indoctrinated by the schools to believe everything hey thing or do is wonderful and it is the world that hates them. This is what you get when normalcy is denigrated and perversity is enshrined.

  42. You know how fundamentalists are. He wants to saw your head off with a knife. So make sure you never tunr you back on him.

  45. And those people will be told, either outright or not, that their services as shareholders are no longer required. Because SJW asininity transcends even money.

    It’ll be refreshing when this company of losers tanks and is replaced by a company that wants to generate revenue instead of progressive kudos (less valuable at the mall than progs might think.)

  49. Of course he received an email related to his suspension, they are automatically generated. You would have to believe in magic to think he wasn’t sent one. Now let’s see it.

  50. It is because I like Mr. McCain that I’m more than happy to help him abide by the Twitter TOS, which I personally find pretty agreeable and easygoing.

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