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Facebook takes down Trump ads 'for violating our policy against organized hate'
- xerox13ster 6y agoOH BOY! If he signed an executive order for Twitter applying a fact check to a single tweet, what will his reaction be to the removal of a reaching ad campaign that he spent real money on?
- rsynnott 6y agoWell... he could sign another futile executive order? Attempting to force advertisers to carry political ads probably wouldn't fly with the courts.
- joshstrange 6y ago> The ads targeted the far left group Antifa So are we just accepting this now? It’s not a group, at best it’s an ideology.
- birdyrooster 6y agoWhy do people bother with antifa moniker anyways? Is one syllable worth the loss in clarity that would come from having your opposition be forced to speak the word anti-fascist? To rule out willful ignorance of the public to discount "antifa" (strangely pronounced with the accent on the i, undermining the reception of the "anti" prefix) as some foreign set of concepts when in reality it is the basis of this nation.
- bobdole12345 6y agoIt's because saying you're anti-anti-fascist would make you sound like an asshole. This lets them pretend they're talking about something different, but all the dogs hear the whistle.
- reducesuffering 6y agoNaming is irrelevant. You can make a group named anti-evil do anything. They would say "Are you anti-anti-evil? Are you for evil? What is wrong with you?"
- smaddox 6y agoUntil reading your comment, I didn't know that was what Antifa was short for. That's probably why they don't use the full name.
- QuercusMax 6y agoAnd it's certainly not "far left". Being against Nazis and other Fascists seems like a pretty middle of the road idea.
- downerending 6y agoEssentially everyone is against Nazis/etc. Antifa has rather different goals--otherwise we'd just call them people.
- iron0013 6y ago“Essentially everyone is against Nazis/etc.“ I used to think that, too, but I think the last few years have made it clear that there are still plenty of “Nazis/etc” out there—certainly enough of them that the rest of us should be concerned.
- newfriend 6y agoUnfortunately normal folks may begin to appear as "Nazis" when you have been sufficiently radicalized. Very little has effectively changed in the past few years, aside from the extreme polarization of the media.
- iron0013 6y agoUnfortunately Nazis may also appear to be “normal folks“ if you have been sufficiently radicalized.
- wiml 6y agoAntifa originated in 1930s Germany … where, obviously, plenty of people were not against Nazis or fascists. Antifa today is still pretty firmly focused on anti-fascist action.
- downerending 6y agoI thought you were going to link them to the brownshirts. Certainly they seem similar in many regards. I can't think of anything good to say about someone who thinks vigilante violence is a noble act.