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The recent controversies at Evergreen College provide an illustrative example. Videos of student protestors bullying professors, ala Maoist Cultural Revolution
by ithinkinstereo 9y ago
The recent controversies at Evergreen College provide an illustrative example. Videos of student protestors bullying professors, ala Maoist Cultural Revolution style, were taken down due to issues with "bullying".
It's worth noting that these were original videos uploaded to YT by the protestors themselves!
- DuskStar 9y agoAlso worth noting that the videos were probably taken down less for "bullying" and more because they made the protesters look horrible, too.
- kjksf 9y agoMake up your mind. By your definition(s), YouTube can't possibly handle inflammatory leftist material. If they don't remove it, they're clearly leftist biased. If the do remove it, they're also clearly leftist biased, but for a different reason. You can't have it both ways.
- DuskStar 9y agoIMO, the entire situation with Evergreen College is closer to being an alt-Right propaganda piece than a leftist one. Screaming at and demanding the resignation of a professor essentially for saying that "On a college campus, one's right to speak - or to be - must never be based on skin color" looks pretty bad, you know? The fact it was produced by leftists who need a far better grasp of optics really doesn't change that. Removing things that make one side look bad - but not similarly doing the same for the other side - is bias, yes. Unless you think YouTube would have removed videos taken by the protesters if the situation was reversed, and it was a neo-Nazi protest that was looking horrible?
- patrickg_zill 9y agoPardon me, but your view is ridiculous! Or are you claiming that the people at Evergreen are all secret members of the Pepe Brotherhood and that they are not holding their leftist views honestly?
- dropit_sphere 9y agoWhat part of his view seems ridiculous to you?
- bobabooey02 9y agoThe idea that hundreds of non-white alt-righters could gather at a college and all act like extremist liberals while not leaking the fact they're alt-righters is pretty absurd to me.
- bzbarsky 9y agoIt's a good thing DuskStar said absolutely nothing like that, then, right?
- bobabooey02 9y agoIt was implied when DuskStar said it was a right-wing propaganda piece. That implies that it was done intentionally to push a narrative.
- bzbarsky 9y agoHe didn't say that. He said it was playing in the media the way a right-wing propaganda piece would have played, even though it wasn't one. I thought that was pretty clear, especially given the last sentence of his first paragraph.
- rogual 9y agoI don't think DuskStar was claiming it was a false-flag protest, just that it made the people doing it look bad.
- DuskStar 9y agoYep, exactly! Not entirely sure how people might think I was suggesting Evergreen's protests were a false flag, that really wasn't my intention.