Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts

Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by orcdork on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:26AM (#12978224)

Behind on of the two tweets, there's a few hundrend years of slavery & oppression, based on race. Context is important.

Edit: Why do I even bother. That same blog has the following snippet in another post:

The white nations of Europe are, collectively and historically speaking, humanity's golden geese. It is to the long-term benefit of all Mankind to avoid killing them, or even adulterating them, through immigration, invasion, or assimilation.

Sigh.

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Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by 67726e on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:45AM (#12978411)

You realize that white Americans were not the only folks to own slaves or oppress a people, right? Ask yourself this, would the results be different if I tweeted that from the Barbary coast were roles were largely reversed? How about from a SLAVic nation?

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Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by orcdork on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:55AM (#12978519)

And? This isn't a discussion on the slave trade. I was pointing out that the origin of the comment was by a biased source, which changes the context of the text to thinly veiled racism.

And by biased source, I mean a racist idiot promoting his shitty ideas.

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Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by kofejnik on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:06PM (#12979210)

so your only argument is ad hominem, pure and simple

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Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by 67726e on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:37PM (#12979520)

Every race had been subjugated violently by another. Claiming one deserves special treatment is itself racist. Ask yourself this: Would the situation with the tweets be reversed if someone from the Barbary coast, which has a history of white slavery, reported the two tweets?

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