{"id":1529549,"date":"2022-06-27T14:49:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T18:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1529549"},"modified":"2022-06-27T14:50:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T18:50:12","slug":"instagram-marks-post-celebrating-black-people-owning-guns-as-sensitive-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/instagram-marks-post-celebrating-black-people-owning-guns-as-sensitive-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Marks Post Celebrating Black People Owning Guns As \u2018Sensitive Content\u2019"},"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\">22<\/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%2Finstagram-marks-post-celebrating-black-people-owning-guns-as-sensitive-content%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=1529549&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>Instagram thinks a post celebrating black people owning weapons is something the public should be shielded from.<\/p>\n<p>An article titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/now\/column-california-ready-more-black-120017584.html\">Column: Is California ready for more Black people to legally carry guns in public?<\/a>\u201d was making the rounds, and I screenshot the headline to share on Instagram with the caption, \u201cIf you find yourself worrying about more American citizens legally carrying guns and exercising their Second Amendment rights just because they\u2019re minorities, congrats, you\u2019re racist.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/08\/11\/david-hookstead-wisconsin-badgers-college-football-king-in-the-north\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/08\/11\/david-hookstead-wisconsin-badgers-college-football-king-in-the-north\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1656437354129000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1XbGN_ZKcjBkYpsmjjucUi\">(RELATED: David Hookstead Is The True\u00a0<span class=\"il\">King<\/span>\u00a0In The\u00a0<span class=\"il\">North<\/span>\u00a0When It Comes To College\u00a0Football)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CfUWaEbO9N-\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>To my great surprise, the post was first flagged as hidden and was then tagged as \u201csensitive content.\u201d Yes, a post about how there\u2019s nothing wrong with all races celebrating their God-given rights is \u201csensitive content\u201d in the eyes of Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>How the hell does that make sense?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Instagram is censoring my post encouraging and supporting minorities to exercise their God-given Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p>What about this could possibly be offensive to anyone? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EWfTio32CI\">pic.twitter.com\/EWfTio32CI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Hookstead (@dhookstead) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dhookstead\/status\/1541483122809868288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_7460349\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7460349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gun Post (Credit: David Hookstead Screenshot)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_7460379\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7460379\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7460379\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gun_Post_2.jpg\" alt=\"Gun Post (Credit: David Hookstead Screenshot)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gun_Post_2.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gun_Post_2-85x120.jpg 85w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gun_Post_2-439x620-1.jpg 439w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gun_Post_2-768x1084-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gun_Post_2-1536x2167-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gun_Post_2-2048x2889-1-scaled.jpg 2048w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7460379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gun Post (Credit: David Hookstead Screenshot)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I attempted to reach out to Instagram on the phone and that quickly turned out to be a road to nowhere. Then, I fired off a pair of emails to the company asking how the hell this could ever be viewed as sensitive content.<\/p>\n<p>So far, neither email has been responded to.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I have reached out to Instagram for a comment on why the company finds black Americans owning guns to be sensitive content that should be hidden from everyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Hookstead (@dhookstead) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dhookstead\/status\/1541484841568505859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s what I will say. If you find blacks, whites or any other race owning guns to be \u201csensitive content,\u201d you\u2019re a clown show and should be treated as such.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing about this post is racist or sensitive. In fact, it\u2019s going against people who want to stoke fear with the idea of more armed black Americans.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If you find yourself worrying about more American citizens legally carrying guns and exercising their Second Amendment rights just because they\u2019re minorities, congrats, you\u2019re racist. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pTyCHV4FQj\">pic.twitter.com\/pTyCHV4FQj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Hookstead (@dhookstead) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dhookstead\/status\/1541481221561237504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Best case scenario, this was a mistake, and that\u2019s simply not acceptable. There\u2019s no reason for a post like this to ever be censored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram thinks a post celebrating black people owning weapons is something the public should be shielded from.An article titled \u201cColumn: Is California ready for more Black people to legally carry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":532,"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-1529549","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\/1529549","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\/532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529549\/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=1529549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}