{"id":1065107,"date":"2021-11-29T15:28:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T20:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1065107"},"modified":"2021-11-29T15:28:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T20:28:46","slug":"twitter-ceo-parag-agrawal-why-should-i-distinguish-between-white-people-and-racists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-ceo-parag-agrawal-why-should-i-distinguish-between-white-people-and-racists\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal: &#039;Why Should I Distinguish Between White People and Racists?&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwitter-ceo-parag-agrawal-why-should-i-distinguish-between-white-people-and-racists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1065107&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Incoming Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, who will shortly replace Jack Dorsey as head of the far-left social media company, uncritically repeated a quote in 2010 suggesting that there should be no need to \u201cdistinguish between white people and racists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they are not gonna make a distinction between muslims and extremists, then why should I distinguish between white people and racists,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/KMYSE\">tweeted Agrawal<\/a>, in quotes. It is unclear who he was quoting.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.1256830601093\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;If they are not gonna make a distinction between muslims and extremists, then why should I distinguish between white people and racists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Parag Agrawal (@paraga) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paraga\/status\/28773976508?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While anti-white racism has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/social-justice\/2021\/02\/22\/claim-coca-cola-antiracism-training-tells-workers-try-to-be-less-white\/\">become common<\/a> in many U.S. institutions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/15\/nolte-walmart-training-accuses-white-employees-being-racist\/\">including its top corporations<\/a>, Agrawal made his comment in 2010 \u2014 years before the Black Lives Matter movement would arrive to push American corporations even further towards the left on issues of race.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7990746\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-699574402.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7990746\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-699574402.jpg\" alt=\"CANNES, FRANCE - JUNE 21: Co-chair \/ founder of Twitter Jack Dorsey attends the &#039; #SheInspiresMe: Twitter celebrates female voices &amp; visionaries &#039; Event at Cannes Lions on June 21, 2017 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Francois Durand\/Getty Images for Twitter)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">CANNES, FRANCE \u2013 JUNE 21: Co-chair \/ founder of Twitter Jack Dorsey attends the \u2018 #SheInspiresMe: Twitter celebrates female voices &amp; visionaries \u2018 Event at Cannes Lions on June 21, 2017 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Francois Durand\/Getty Images for Twitter)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Relatively unknown in Silicon Valley until now, Agrawal was announced as Jack Dorsey\u2019s successor shortly after the Twitter co-founder announced he would step down from his role after a six-year stint as its CEO.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Dorsey, who presided over the company\u2019s shift from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/alltechconsidered\/2013\/03\/21\/174858681\/on-its-7th-birthday-is-twitter-still-the-free-speech-party\">what his predecessor called<\/a> \u201cthe free speech wing of the free speech party\u201d to a platform that censors conservatives on a regular basis, including the banning of President Trump, has often been denounced by conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>Yet close observers of Twitter\u2019s internal politics, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2018\/02\/21\/exclusive-former-twitter-employee-blames-del-harvey-for-mass-twitter-lock-out-of-conservatives\/\">including its former employees<\/a>, have observed that the real engine of censorship inside the company was not Dorsey himself, but the \u201ctrust and safety\u201d department, which sets censorship policies for the company.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201ctrust and safety\u201d department became increasingly influential as the media pushed for more social media censorship of conservatives. In 2020, <em>Politico&nbsp;<\/em>ran a gushing profile of trust and safety global lead Vijaya Gadde, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2020\/10\/28\/twitter-vijaya-gadde-free-speech-policies-technology-social-media-429221\">portraying her as the driving force behind the policies that censored Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Agrawal appears to have similar priorities. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2020\/11\/18\/1012066\/emtech-stage-twitters-cto-on-misinformation\/\">interview<\/a> with the MIT Technology Review last year, while he was CTO of the company, Agrawal said free speech was no longer a focus for the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur role is not to be bound by the First Amendment, but our role is to serve a healthy public conversation and our moves are reflective of things that we believe lead to a healthier public conversation,\u201d said Agrawal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kinds of things that we do about this is, focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.&nbsp;He is the author of&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DELETED-Techs-Battle-Movement-Election\/dp\/154605930X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">#DELETED: Big Tech\u2019s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incoming Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, who will shortly replace Jack Dorsey as head of the far-left social media company, uncritically repeated a quote in 2010 suggesting that there should be &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}