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We're not talking about the removal of extreme political views. We're talking about the censorship of one particular ideology. Where is the corresponding elimin
by throwaway190605 7y ago
We're not talking about the removal of extreme political views. We're talking about the censorship of one particular ideology. Where is the corresponding elimination of polarizing videos espousing views from the radical left?
A wholesale expunction from one end of the spectrum is hard not to interpret as politically charged censorship. Let's see how many Antifa and BLM videos get taken down.
- untog 7y ago> We're not talking about the removal of extreme political views. Yes we are. You are implying equivalence where there is none. Black Lives Matter and Antifa are not equivalent to white supremacists.
- throwaway190605 7y agoYou're arguing with the least interesting part of my point. Just watch how many radical left videos get removed, irrespective of what group posted them.
- untog 7y agoYou appear to not be understanding my point. The videos being removed are not some "radical right" that serves as the opposite of your definition of "radical left". They are "channels that advocate for neo-Nazism, white supremacy and other bigoted ideologies". BLM, Antifa, etc. are not the "left" equivalent of these "right" viewpoints.
- whenchamenia 7y agoAs someone who finds them both distasteful and hateful; yes, they are very similar. All sides need to reign in their extremists, or become defined by them.
- untog 7y ago"similar" is a very vague term. We are talking ideologies that call for the extermination of other races here, in what way is Black Lives Matter equivalent?
- esailija 7y agoOne is about creating violence and hate against certain races, other is about reducing violence and hate against a race. They couldn't be more dissimilar.
- Frondo 7y agoBlack Lives Matter literally exists to highlight disproportionate police violence against people of color; not only are they not calling for expelling whites (the "reverse" of what a lot of white nationalists call for), what they are asking for is that people of color be treated by the state enforcement mechanism at parity with white people. You may find that distasteful, but it is difficult to see what aspect of that is hateful. From their own website: "We are working for a world where Black lives are no longer systematically targeted for demise." https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/ https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/ I'm only writing all this because it's very important not to let rhetoric like "white nationalists and Black Lives Matter are equivalent"; they're not and it's disingenuous or dishonest to conflate them.
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- Fins 7y agoAntifa isn't? That's highly debatable.
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- fooey 7y agoPreventing the spread of hate isn't an act of partisan censorship I find it interesting that conservatives want to protect genocidal racists, but there isn't an equivalent on the progressive side of things. If there was, progressives would want that noise shut down faster than anyone else.
- pjc50 7y agoThere are reports of YouTube demonetizing any mention of "trans": https://socialblade.com/blog/youtube-lgbt-videos-demonetized-pride-month/ https://socialblade.com/blog/youtube-lgbt-videos-demonetized... Not to mention lots of pro-weed and pro-sexworker stuff being banned.