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> Why is white nationalism specifically targeted? Because there's a lot of it in the US and the anglosphere in general which is Facebook's home and primary mark
by tathougies 8y ago
> Why is white nationalism specifically targeted? Because there's a lot of it in the US and the anglosphere in general which is Facebook's home and primary market.
Facebook has 1 billion + users, which means the majority are necessarily not American. Now I don't know where those other users are from, but white nationalism is not the largest source of terrorism related killings worldwide, even if it is a problem in america. The fact is that white nationalism is -- for whatever reason -- seen as something worse than all the other forms of racism, and that perception is itself racist. There are two forms of such racism, either straight up dislike of white people or an infantilization of the racism of other cultures that absolves them of their own racism (well they didn't know better...)
- simple_phrases 8y agoYou're consuming American news media about an American company with PR problem in America concerning white nationalist extremist content hitting American eyes. Hope this helps.
- tathougies 8y agoSure, but, if that were the case, I would expect to be able to search for and find articles about similar handling of racism in other countries in media outlets from those countries. I have not, so I cannot attribute the single mindedness of facebook's decision to the news media I consume.
- anigbrowl 8y agoYou could look into past controversies about people abusing Facebook for genocidal purposes, such as this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18225364 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18225364 You aren't likely to find much media coverage of this question from sources within Myanmar for reasons that I hope will be obvious.