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Oh cool, so it’s okay if Facebook removes every post about and by BLM? Because they certainly incited a great deal of violence this summer. Enough of the Doubl
by jimbob45 6y ago
Oh cool, so it’s okay if Facebook removes every post about and by BLM? Because they certainly incited a great deal of violence this summer.
Enough of the Doublespeak. It’s censorship, albeit by a private entity. When it inevitably happens to the left, I’ll call it censorship then too and I’ll advocate against it.
- mrtesthah 6y agoNope. 93% of Black Lives Matter protests have been peaceful. https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-violence-in-america-new-data-for-summer-2020/ https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-vi...
- PontifexMinimus 6y agoYour statistic of: > 93% of Black Lives Matter protests have been peaceful Does not contradict jimbob45's point that "BLM [...] incited a great deal of violence this summer" Going by the numbers in your URL, 7750 demonstations of which 7% violent = 542 violent demonstrations.
- mrtesthah 6y agoHe said “they certainly incited a great deal of violence this summer.” I qualified that statement, which was worded to imply substantially more violence than what actually occurred. I thought HN discussions were based on facts rather than political biases.
- PontifexMinimus 6y ago> I thought HN discussions were based on facts rather than political biases. I very much hope they are.
- mrtesthah 6y agoDoesn’t look like it. Every time I present clear facts contrary to peoples’ political leanings and biases, they downvote.
- rvz 6y agoSo BLM also had violent demonstrations as well. Thanks for confirming this. Difference is, if doesn't fit their narrative it is not covered.
- dredmorbius 6y agoBLM have not systemically incited violence over Twitter, unlike DJT.
- triceratops 6y ago> so it’s okay if Facebook removes every post about and by BLM? It's ok in the sense that they have every legal right to do so. It would lose them a ton of goodwill though, so they probably wouldn't do it. That's the free market at work.