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While that seems like exactly what Sayoc did, therefore warranting a suspension, you must also remember that Ritchie is a black woman, which means Twitter doesn’t really care. The Root’s staff writer Monique Judge has previously reported on the social media’s platform willingness to police every segment of its users except for the ones who threaten women of color. The problem first came to light when Twitter failed to quickly respond to the vicious abuse of comedian Leslie Jones by white supremacists including Milo Yiannopoulos:

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It must also be noted that Twitter publicly apologized for the company’s “error” but not to Ritchie. However, we can’t really take death threats on social media seriously. After all, there’s no way Twitter could have anticipated that some kook would eventually attempt the greatest mass political assassination in history? It’s not like there was any warning like a death threat in writing or anything.

Who could have known?