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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by mch82 on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @07:18PM (#19507261)
We know, for sure, the dictionary definition. Consider looking it up & assessing whether you wish to apply the label to yourself.
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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by remarkEon on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @08:17PM (#19507726)
>Consider looking it up & assessing whether you wish to apply the label to yourself.

But this isn't what will happen. Expressing skepticism about immigration - a fairly normal and mainstream opinion in the 1990s and early 2000s - can easily be construed today as "white nationalism" by many on the political left. It's not you who gets to define what your views are on these platforms, it's the "moderators".

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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by KozmoNau7 on Thursday March 28, 2019 @02:41AM (#19509807)
Openly questioning the validity of the capitalist system has been construed as hardcore hunger and famine bread lines planned economy USSR-style communism for decades.

Welcome to not having a safe space anymore.

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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by roenxi on Thursday March 28, 2019 @03:17AM (#19510009)
Openly questioning the validity of the capitalist system is fine. Facebook shouldn't be banning people who don't like capitalism from their platform either.
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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by sisu2019 on Thursday March 28, 2019 @03:35AM (#19510094)
you are a complaining about your ideology being ridiculed because its bad and leads to awful results, your interlocutor complains about not being able to voice his opinion without actual persecution.
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