Twitter Permanently Suspends Anthony Cumia
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Twitter has permanently suspended Anthony Cumia, the shock jock fired by SiriusXM in 2014 over a series of racist tweets. The social media platform previously suspended Cumia in 2017, but he quickly returned via a succession of accounts that were subsequently suspended too. Since 2019 he’s been using the handle @CompoundBoss, which as of this morning had 30,200 followers. A Twitter spokesperson told me today that the account “has been permanently suspended for violating the Twitter rules against ban evasion.”
As founder of the digital network Compound Media, Cumia was instrumental in the formation of the Proud Boys, a hate group created by Gavin McInnes on his Compound Media show The Gavin McInnes Show. (McInnes is still a frequent guest on The Anthony Cumia Show and guest-hosted it earlier this week.) He regularly used his Twitter account to share the sort of sentiments that got him fired from SiriusXM and suspended from Twitter. In the last several years alone he’s published numerous tweets referring to Black people as “animals,” “things,” and “monsters” who are “incapable or unwilling to assimilate to a civil western society”; claimed that Black people are responsible for the majority of anti-Asian, transphobic, and anti-Semitic violence; called George Floyd a mentally ill drug addict who died of a fentanyl overdose; complained vociferously about anti-white racism and “black privilege”; expressed various sympathies for the Proud Boys; stood by the tweets he was fired for; complained about an “invasion” destroying European nations, which he says should be “for their people”; and said that “As long as the Nazis kept their guns pointed to the East, it was a good thing.”
Earlier this week Cumia quote-tweeted a post by Shelby County, Tennessee Commissioner Tami Sawyer that said, “Black women are tired,” commenting: “AAAAAAAAHAHAHA! Holy shit. This is a joke. Tired??? Of WHAT? Annoying the shit out of entire continents?” A few minutes later he quoted the same tweet again, commenting: “Liberals have pumped these imbeciles up to the point where they actually believe they are important to society. It’s ridiculous.”
