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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by pmarreck on Thursday March 28, 2019 @11:51AM (#19513384)
A while back, my leftist circles kept repeating ad nauseam that Peter Thiel (who is already in a minority, being gay) is a white nationalist. I suspected bullshit and decided to look into it.

All I could find was this: Peter Thiel once spoke at a libertarian conference. Libertarians, being libertarians, permit racism (read: not the same as "support racism"). THEREFORE, PETER THIEL IS A WHITE NATIONALIST.

Are you fucking serious? I pushed back on my leftist friends with what I found. "Duhhhhh, errrrrr, ummmmm, well... everyone just knows he is!" Oh, really.

Bullshit, repeated often enough as truth, becomes evidence for itself.

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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by pmarreck on Thursday March 28, 2019 @02:28PM (#19515096)
Honest question, why is this getting downvoted?
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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by zymhan on Thursday March 28, 2019 @03:22PM (#19515609)
Because it's a straw man argument. GP (you) is talking about some argument their friends made, not something anyone in this thread has said.
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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by pmarreck on Friday March 29, 2019 @09:14AM (#19521316)
But it was a related example of how echo chambers can corrupt the truth
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