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Nets owner Joe Tsai condemns Kyrie Irving’s tweeting of antisemitic video
Kyrie Irving’s latest venture into conspiracy theories and controversy has drawn condemnation from Brooklyn Nets team owner Joe Tsai and his own team for its clear antisemitism.
On Thursday, the Nets point guard tweeted out a link to a documentary called “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,” based on a book of the same name by Ronald Dalton Jr. As Rolling Stone explains it, the documentary puts forward “ideas in line with more extreme factions of the Black Hebrew Israelites, which have a long history of misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and especially antisemitism.”
Making use of fabricated quotes and debunked hoaxes, the documentary and book reportedly lay out a number of antisemitic tropes to claim Jews control the world and are responsible for centuries of Black oppression.
A day after Irving tweeted the link, Tsai posted a response outright stating the movie to be “full of anti-semitic disinformation” and suggested Irving had promoted hate.
The Nets also released their own statement to Nets Daily, saying they had “no tolerance” for “hate speech”
“The Brooklyn Nets strongly condemn and have no tolerance for the promotion of any form of hate speech. We believe that in these situations, our first action must be open, honest dialogue. We thank those, including the [Anti Defamation League], who have been supportive during this time.”
Irving has obviously never been afraid to speak his mind, but his public persona has steadily warped in recent years, starting with the infamous battle over his refusal to get vaccinated last season and more recently posting a video promoting conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, a man recently found liable for $1 billion in damages to Sandy Hook families for promoting the lie that the massacre was a hoax.
The Nets have been navigating Irving’s extracurricular activities for a while, but have never gone as far as Tsai outright calling him out for spreading antisemitic disinformation. What further action that leads to, either on the Nets’ part or Irving’s, remains to be seen.
The Irving tweet came amid what had been a surprisingly normal season the court so far, given that he and Kevin Durant tried to leave the team during the offseason. Irving has played in all five of the team’s games (never a certainty) while averaging 29.3 points per game.
Salma al-Shehab, Saudi activist, sentenced to 34 years for tweeting
Shehab had been active on the social media platform during campaigns demanding the abolition of the country’s guardianship system, which gives men legal control over certain aspects of female relatives’ lives. She had called for the freeing of Saudi prisoners of conscience.
According to court records obtained by The Washington Post, Shehab was accused of using a social media website “to disrupt public order, undermine the security of society and stability of the state, and support those who had committed criminal actions according to the counterterrorism law and its financing.”
The documents said she supported such individuals “by following their social media accounts and rebroadcasting their tweets,” and that she spread false rumors. The documents went on to say that after she appealed an initial conviction, it was decided that her prison sentence was too short, “considering her crimes,” and that her previous sentence failed to “achieve restraint and deterrence.”
On top of a 34-year sentence and subsequent 34-year travel ban, which begins after the prison sentence ends, the court ruled that her mobile phone be confiscated, and her Twitter account be “closed down permanently.”
The charges are familiar: Sowing sedition and destabilizing the state are accusations frequently used against activists in the kingdom who speak up against the status quo. Saudi Arabia has long wielded its counterterrorism law against its citizens whose protests are deemed unacceptable, especially if they criticize the de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
In late 2021, the initial ruling against Shehab gave her six years in prison. When she appealed, however, it was increased to 34 — the country’s longest sentence against a peaceful activist, according to several human rights groups.
Rights groups have repeatedly warned about the government’s recent use of the counterterrorism law. In April, Human Rights Watch said laws such as “the notoriously abusive counterterrorism law and the anti-cybercrime law, include vague and overly broad provisions that have been widely interpreted and abused.” The rulings are also often characterized by inconsistent and harsh sentences.
As the sentence includes the closure of her Twitter account, at least one rights group is trying to make sure it is not shut down, said Lina al-Hathloul, the head of monitoring and communications at ALQST, a London-based Saudi rights group.
“Now we’re working with Twitter not to close it or to make them aware that at least if they’re asked to close it, it comes from the Saudi government and not from her,” she said. Twitter did not respond to a request for comment from The Post.
In its statement Tuesday, the European Saudi Organization for Human Rights, which tracks arrests in the kingdom, said the decision to sentence Shehab under the counterterrorism law “confirms that Saudi Arabia deals with those who demand reforms and critics on social networks as terrorists.”
The group said the ruling sets a dangerous precedent and shows that Saudi Arabia’s widely lauded efforts to modernize the kingdom and improve women’s rights “are not serious and fall within the whitewashing campaigns it is carrying out to improve its human rights record.”
Before her arrest, Shehab was a lecturer at Princess Nourah University in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, and a PhD student at Britain’s University of Leeds. She was conducting exploratory research there about new techniques in oral and dental medicine and their applications in Saudi Arabia, a colleague who worked with her in Leeds said.
The person, who spoke on the condition anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case, described Shehab as a “wonderful” and “generous” colleague — “the type of person who always brings in treats.”
She never publicly spoke of politics, the colleague added, instead speaking often of her children and showing friends and colleagues photos of them. She “missed her family a lot.”
Shehab went back to Saudi Arabia at the end of 2019 and never returned to school in Britain. At first, that didn’t alarm anyone, given the long period of coronavirus lockdowns that began in March 2020 in England. But eventually, her colleague said, people began asking, “Has anyone heard from Salma?”
“It came as a shock to all of us because we thought, ‘How can a person like her be arrested?’ ” the person said. The University of Leeds did not respond to a request for comment from The Post.
When asked whether it was monitoring Shehab’s case or was involved in any attempts to secure her release, the British Foreign Office told The Post via email that “ministers and senior officials have repeatedly raised concerns over the detention of Women’s Rights Defenders with the Saudi authorities and will continue to do so.”
Shehab belongs to the minority Shiite sect of Islam — viewed by many hard-line Sunni Muslims as heretical and whose adherents in Saudi Arabia are often automatically viewed with suspicion by the Sunni authorities.
Saudi Arabia often has been criticized for its treatment of the Shiite minority. Earlier this year, New York-based Human Rights Watch said in its annual report on human rights that the kingdom “systematically discriminates against Muslim religious minorities,” including Shiites.
Shehab’s last Twitter activity was on Jan. 13, 2021, two days before her arrest, when she retweeted a classic Arabic song about missing a loved one’s company.
On her Twitter page, which remains active, she has a pinned tweet of a prayer asking for forgiveness if she had ever transgressed against another human unknowingly and asking God to help her reject injustice and help those who face it.
The tweet ends with “freedom to the prisoners of conscience and to every oppressed person in the world.”
Timsit reported from France.
Bette Midler called out for tweeting antitrans concerns about the word ‘women’
Bette Midler became the center of a heated debate after tweeting a message for the “women of the world” about the inclusive language used when discussing reproductive healthcare.
The actor and singer, who is known for being active and vocal on Twitter, took to social media on Monday to express her ire that “women” are seemingly no longer called “women.”
“We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name!” tweeted Midler. “They don’t call us ‘women’ anymore; they call us ‘birthing people’ or ‘menstruators’, and even ‘people with vaginas’! Don’t let them erase you! Every human on earth owes you!”
Although Midler did not specify exactly who she meant by “they,” it appears to include anyone who uses inclusive language such as “pregnant people” or “patients seeking abortions” in conversations around reproductive rights. Responses from those denouncing Midler’s assessment of the use of such language was swift.
“Derry Girls” actor Siobhán McSweeney succinctly responded, “This isnt true,” while “RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K.” alum Crystal explained, “The fight for women’s rights INCLUDES trans people — trans rights do not erode women’s rights.”
“We’re all fighting this together and this trans-exclusionary rhetoric does NOTHING to help that,” tweeted Crystal. “Bette Midler is a woman. Some other people who give birth are not women. That’s ok!”
Professor and author Chanda Prescod-Weinstein tweeted that Midler’s assertion is “heartbreaking” because “The point of the anti-choice movement is to try and control the bodies of people assigned female at birth, including trans men, and force gender identities and gender roles on *all* of us.
“Cis women have nothing to lose and everything to gain by acknowledging the links between the anti-abortion movement and transphobia, which are all about attacking bodily autonomy in support of patriarchal supremacy,” Prescod-Weinstein added.
Abortion rights advocates and organizations including Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union have moved toward using more inclusive and accurate language around reproductive healthcare to recognize that trans and nonbinary people also seek such care. Organizations such as the Trans Journalists Assn. have noted that “it is important to remember that people who are not women do get pregnant and do get abortions” in their best practices on language used in news coverage.
Some of those opposing the use of inclusive language argue that phrases such as “pregnant people” exclude women because the word “women” is not used or that it reduces people to their biology, with some insinuating this “erasure” is just as egregious as denying people their reproductive rights.
Others who also expressed their support of Midler’s comments include those who push for antitrans language and policies because they believe a person’s sex assigned at birth is the only thing that matters.
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Hideo Kojima Says Kojima Productions Will Remain Independent After Tweeting PlayStation Studios Banner
Hideo Kojima mysteriously posted a photo of PlayStation Studios before clarifying that his studio will remain independent.
Around 1 pm in the afternoon Japan time, Kojima posted a picture of the PlayStation Studios banner with games from all of Sony’s first-party studios and also Death Stranding. This cryptic tweet immediately kicked off speculation that Kojima Productions officially joined PlayStation Studios.
Kojima followed up 10 minutes later by clarifying Kojima Productions is still an independent company.
Hideo Kojima’s first tweet. Credit: Twitter.
In a follow-up tweet, independently translated by IGN, Kojima writes, “I seem to have invited misinterpretation, but KojiPro has been and will continue to be an independent production studio.”
IGN has reached out to Kojima Productions for further clarification.
Kojima’s clarification tweet. Credit: Twitter.
Kojima Productions was founded in 2015 as an independent studio after previously being an in-house team within Konami, Kojima’s previous company. To date the studio’s only title remains Death Stranding, a game starring The Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus as a porter who must walk across a post-apocalyptic United States to reunite the country.
With its post-modern aesthetic and cinematic storytelling, Death Stranding was peak Kojima, to divided critical reception. An expanded version for PlayStation 5 was later released for console and PC under the name Death Stranding Director’s Cut.
A possible explanation for this tweet could be from Kojima Productions’ already close relationship with Sony. Kojima announced his new studio alongside Sony at the 2015 PlayStation E3 presentation, and Death Stranding uses a version of Guerrilla Games’ Decima Engine.
Speculation over new PlayStation acquisitions is at an all-time high and Sony is currently on a buying spree, having acquired teams like Housemarque and Valkyrie Entertainment. Sony also purchased Bungie, though the Destiny developer is not part of PlayStation Studios.
Matt T.M. Kim is IGN’s News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.
Amber Rose Regrets Tweeting About Kim Kardashian, Kanye West
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Amber Rose and the Kardashian family have a long, complicated history. Rose used to date Kim Kardashian’s ex Ye (F.K.A. Kanye West) and is best friends with Blac Chyna, Rob Kardashian’s ex and mother of his daughter Dream. Blac Chyna and Kylie Jenner both used to date Tyga. And in 2015, it was all about Twitter fights where everyone was called out. Rose called Kim and her sisters the “Kartrashians” after Ye wrote “30 Showers” about his relationship with Rose once he got together with Kim. However, it’s been almost seven years since the feud, and Rose regrets insulting the Kardashian family.
“I started my Sultwalk and helped Millions of women around the world stand up for themselves against Slut shaming so something amazing came out of it,” said Rose on Instagram, “Kim nor her sisters deserved that tweet and y’all shouldn’t co-sign that either. Shit was old and immature [as fuck] of me to involve the KarDASHians in the mess [Ye] made.” Rose blames Ye for their feud and regrets slut-shaming the Kardashians. “I just wanna spread love and positivity,” concluded Rose. Rose has plans to revive her Slutwalk after canceling the event a few years ago due to “toxic people” associated with the event.
Wordle: What is it and why is everyone tweeting about it?
A puzzle from a few days ago (so it’s not a spoiler!)
Power Language
If your Twitter feed is anything like mine, you’ll have noticed something a little weird. Tweets with boxes. Yellow boxes, green boxes, grey boxes…
They look a little something like this:
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟨🟨🟨⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Wordle 183 4/6
OBSESSED.
— Mark Serrels (@Serrels) December 19, 2021
Yes, that is my tweet. Yes, I have become a Wordle guy.
So what the hell is Wordle? Good question.
What is Wordle?
Wordle is a daily word game you can find online here. It’s fun, simple and — perhaps crucially — can be played only once a day.
I could try to explain the rules, but the site itself does a fantastic job of explaining the rules.
This game is so good.
Wordle
Essentially a word game, Wordle gives players six chances to guess a random five letter word. As shown above, if you have the right letter in the right spot, it shows up green. A correct letter in the wrong spot shows up yellow. A letter that isn’t in the word in any spot shows up grey.
Simple right? Yes, simple but also incredibly compelling.
So it’s just a word game? Big deal…
Yeah it’s just a word game, but there are a few tiny little details that have resulted in everyone going absolutely bonkers for it.
There’s only one puzzle per day.
This creates a certain level of stakes. You only get one shot at the Wordle. If you mess up, you have to wait until tomorrow to get a brand new puzzle.
Everyone is playing the exact same puzzle!
This is crucial, as it makes it easier to ping your buddy and chat about the day’s puzzle. “Today’s was tough!” “How did you get on?” “Did you get it?”
Which takes us to the next point…
It’s easy to share your results!
Once you’ve successfully or unsuccessfully done the puzzle for the day, you’re invited to share your Wordle journey for the day. If you tweet the image, it looks like this…
⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Wordle 184 5/6
Started to sweat a bit on this one!
— Paul is Happening (@paulpuccio) December 21, 2021
Note that the word and letters you chose are obscured. All that’s shown is your journey toward the word in a series of yellow, green and grey boxes.
It’s very compelling. If you get it easily, maybe in the second or third try, there’s a showoff element whereby you must show your followers how smart you are and share.
If you get it by the skin of your teeth in the sixth go, that’s also a cool story. But most importantly, the puzzle itself isn’t spoiled.
OMG IT HAPPENED
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Wordle 184 1/6
— Jason Imms 🅽🅸🅲🅴 (@jasonimms) December 21, 2021
So Wordle isn’t just a word game, it’s a conversation starter and a chance to show off on social media. That’s why it’s going so viral.
Who made Wordle?
Wordle is the work of Josh Wardle. Extremely online people may remember him as the creator of Place, an utterly wild collaborative art project/social experiment that sent the internet into a tizzy in April 2017.
Place was a shared online space that allowed literally anyone to fight over what was drawn there. It resulted in huge, sprawling communities battling over space on this gigantic online canvas.
It ultimately ended up looking like this:
Remember place? That was a wild time.
Wordle was mentioned in the New York Times in November but really got traction when the share element was added on Friday.
Added a share button to Wordle that generates a spoiler-free emoji grid for you. Shoutout to @irihapeta for inventing such a cool way to share your results each day.
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🟨⬛🟨🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Wordle 180 3/6
Try it out: https://t.co/pZTmeT1p7E
— Josh Wardle (@powerlanguish) December 16, 2021
In a Reddit post, Wardle said he wanted Wordle to feel like a croissant, a “delightful snack” that is enjoyed occasionally. This is explicitly why there’s only one puzzle per day. “Enjoyed too often,” he explained, “and they lose their charm.”
Agreed.
Netflix suspends trans engineer after tweeting that Dave Chappelle’s biopic had put lives at risk
Netflix has suspended three employees, including one, Terra Field, who criticized comedian Dave Chappelle’s new comedy special in a series of tweets.
Field identifies herself on Twitter as a senior software engineer at Netflix and as trans.
‘I work at @netflix,’ Field tweeted. ‘Yesterday we launched another Chappelle special where he attacks the trans community, and the very validity of transness — all while trying to pit us against other marginalized groups.
‘What we object to is the harm that content like this does to the trans community (especially trans people of color) and VERY specifically black trans women.
A Netflix software engineer, Terra Field wrote a lengthy Twitter thread about Dave Chappelle’s special . She has since been suspended but Netflix say it ‘was unrelated’ to her tweets
Dave Chappelle continues to face backlash over the controversial contents of his latest Netflix special, The Closer
‘Promoting TERF ideology (which is what we did by giving it a platform yesterday) directly harms trans people, it is not some neutral act. This is not an argument with two sides. It is an argument with trans people who want to be alive and people who don’t want us to be,’ Field tweeted.
‘This all gets brushed off as offense though – because if we’re just ‘too sensitive’ then it is easy to ignore us. I’m surprised I haven’t had anyone call me (ironically) ‘hysterical’ yet today,’ she continued
Field then went on to include a list of 38 trans and nonbinary men and women of color who she said had been killed, adding in each case that the victim ‘is not offended.’
Over the course of more than 40 tweets Field explained the violence felt by transgender the gender non-conforming community
Field then went on to include a list of 38 trans and nonbinary men and women of color who she said had been killed, adding in each case that the victim ‘is not offended.’
Last week, Jaclyn Moore, pictured, a trans showrunner on another Netflix show said she will no longer work for the streaming service following Dave Chappelle’s ‘transphobic’ remarks
According to a person familiar with the matter, the three employees, including Field, joined a quarterly meeting for company directors and vice presidents without gaining authorization.
The person, who wasn’t authorized to discuss the situation publicly, said the workers were suspended as a result of an investigation and not for speaking out, but for attending the virtual meeting uninvited.
‘It is absolutely untrue to say that we have suspended any employees for tweeting about this show. Our employees are encouraged to disagree openly and we support their right to do so,’ Netflix said in a statement on Monday.
In Field’s posts, she said that Dave Chappelle was being criticized not because his comments are offensive but for the harm they do to the trans community, especially black women.
Chappelle has courted controversy with his jokes in which he asserts ‘gender is a fact,’ and criticizes what he says is the thin skin of the trans community.
LGBTQ activists have lashed out over the comments, with the National Black Justice Coalition calling on the streaming service to remove the program.
A top Netflix executive said Dave Chappelle’s special The Closer doesn’t cross ‘the line on hate’ and will remain on the streaming service despite fallout over the comedian’s remarks about the transgender community.
In an internal memo, co-CEO Ted Sarandos told managers that ‘some talent’ may join third parties in calling for the show’s removal.
Sarandos said bosses did not believe that Chappelle’s work amounted to ‘hate,’ and that the company would not be removing the show despite pressure from artists.
Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos sent a memo to employees discussing the line between commentary and hate adding that Chappelle’s comedy special would not be removed
‘Some talent may join third parties in asking us to remove the show in the coming days, which we are not going to do,’ Sarandos wrote, adding Chappelle is one of the most popular performers working today.
‘We don’t allow titles (on) Netflix that are designed to incite hate or violence, and we don’t believe The Closer crosses that line.
‘Some people find the art of stand-up to be mean-spirited but our members enjoy it, and it’s an important part of our content offering.
‘I recognize, however, that distinguishing between commentary and harm is hard, especially with stand-up comedy which exists to push boundaries,’ Sarandos wrote.
Netflix has declined to comment on the memo, which was reported on Monday by Variety.
In a statement, the media watchdog group GLAAD said that ‘anti-LGBTQ content’ violates Netflix’s policy to reject programs that incite hate or violence.
GLAAD called on Netflix executives to ‘listen to LGBTQ employees, industry leaders, and audiences and commit to living up to their own standards.’
When Chappelle’s special was released last week, the group said that the comedian’s ‘brand has become synonymous with ridiculing trans people and other marginalized communities.’
Chappelle, 48, has been accused of transphobia in previous Netflix specials.
In The Closer he is at pains to stress that he does not hate transgender people, and tells a long anecdote about a trans woman comic, who he describes as a friend, who came to his defense in earlier entanglements with the community.
Last week as the controversy raged, the comic received a standing ovation at a sold out event at the Hollywood Bowl, telling the audience: ‘If this is what being canceled is like, I love it.’
Comedian Dave Chappelle is under fire for making transphobic jokes in his new Netflix special
In the stand-up special – his sixth for the streaming service – Chappelle joked about Harry Potter author J K Rowling’s 2019 statement that transgender women were not actually women and were a threat to her identity.
Rowling, 56, subsequently received a slew of hate messages and death threats for her comments on sex and gender after the incident, with the hashtag #RIPJKRowling trending on social media last year.
Rowling was then labeled a ‘TERF’ by the LGBTQ community – which stands for ‘trans-exclusionary radical feminist.’
Chappelle joked that he embraced the label.
‘I’m Team TERF. I agree. I agree, man,’ Chappelle says in the special, aligning himself with the ousted writer.
‘Gender is a fact,’ he then remarks.
Harry Potter author JK Rowling stated in 2019 that transgender women were not actually women and were a threat to her identity
Chappelle adds: ‘Every human being in this room, every human being on Earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on Earth. That is a fact.’
In the contentious special, Chappelle also jokes that women today view transwomen the same way black people might view white women wearing blackface, and remarked that women are entitled to feel anger toward transwomen, since Caitlyn Jenner won Glamour magazine’s 2015 Woman of the Year award.
‘I’d be mad as sh*t if I was a woman,’ Chappelle says during a problematic bit.
The star also jokes about the anatomy of transwomen in the special, joking that they lacked real female reproductive organs and that they did not have blood but ‘beet juice.’
Jaclyn Moore, who was a writer and producer on the Netflix show Dear White People, tweeted that she worked with executives and others at the service who ‘fought for important art’ and that she told ‘the story of my transition for @netflix.’
But she faces hate and attacks because ‘I’m not a ‘real woman,’ Moore said who is vowing to boycott the platform.
‘I will not work with them as long as they continue to put out and profit from blatantly and dangerously transphobic content,’ she said on Twitter.
Tripwire CEO out 53 hours after tweeting his opinions on Texas abortion law
John Gibson, CEO of Tripwire Interactive — the studio known for making horror games like Killing Floor and Maneater — was made to step down a blisteringly quick 53 hours after he tweeted in favor of the controversial Texas abortion law.
In the tweet, Gibson says, “Proud of #USSupremeCourt affirming the Texas law banning abortion for babies with a heartbeat. As an entertainer I don’t get political often. Yet with so many vocal peers on the other side of this issue, I felt it was important to go on the record as a pro-life game developer.”
The tweet drew sharp criticisms from across the gaming industry with many consumers stating they would no longer buy Tripwire games and sharing how to block the developer from showing up in Steam recommendations. Detractors also noted that Gibson’s pro-life opinion wasn’t the problem but that he chose to voice it publicly in his capacity as a CEO and in support of a law that essentially offers $10,000 bounties on abortion seekers and the people who help them.
The Texas law, known as SB 8, bans abortion when a “fetal heartbeat” is detected. While the term “fetal heartbeat” is not medical in nature, the phrasing of the law effectively bans abortion around six weeks into the pregnancy, which can be before a person even knows they are pregnant. A critical component of the law deputizes private citizens, not the state, to enforce it, granting people the ability to sue abortion providers and anyone accused of abetting abortion seekers. For any person who wins such a suit, they can be awarded $10,000.
Gibson tweeted his support for the law on September 4th. The next day, Shipwright Studios, a co-development services studio, tweeted that they would be canceling any contracts they had with Tripwire.
“We cannot in good conscience continue to work with Tripwire under the current leadership structure,” Shipwright Studios wrote a mere 24 hours after Gibson’s tweet.
By September 6th, Tripwire announced that Gibson would be stepping down as CEO, effective immediately.
“His comments disregarded the values of our whole team, our partners and much of our broader community,” Tripwire wrote on their website. “Our leadership team at Tripwire are deeply sorry and are unified in our commitment to take swift action and to foster a more positive environment.”
Alan Wilson will replace Gibson as interim CEO. It is unknown if Gibson will continue to be employed by Tripwire.