Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWars and Others

Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by chimpburger on Thursday May 02, 2019 @05:38PM (#19813235)

Jewish ethnically. You personally haven't seen his husband, and you personally haven't seen a public record of his marriage.

OK, so he's a white supremacist who pretends to be Jewish and pretends to have a black husband. Totally makes sense.

Seriously, there is no evidence that he has white supremacist beliefs. He hates political correctness and radical leftist ideas. The SJW's/leftists are offended by his criticism and call him a Nazi. Everyone who disagrees with leftists is called a Nazi.

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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by objectivetruth on Thursday May 02, 2019 @06:30PM (#19813589)

Ethnic Jews, black people, white people married to black people -- ALL of these types of people can absolutely still hold white supremacist thoughts, despite how little sense it might make to you and me.

But that's not what I think is going on with Milo; in his case, I think that being ethnically Jewish and married to a black person are absolutely not barriers to associating with white supremacists, anti-LGBT-rights activists, misogynists, etc.

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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by dang on Friday May 03, 2019 @02:08AM (#19815955)

Even by the abject standards of this shitty thread, your comment here crosses into name-calling and personal attack. Posting like that is a bannable offense here. Would you mind reviewing the guidelines and taking the spirit of this site to heart?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by chimpburger on Friday May 03, 2019 @03:46PM (#19821631)

I know the rules, and I don't mind getting banned. It's easy to make a new account. I am sick and tired of toxic insane leftist morons getting all the non-leftists banned / deplatformed everywhere, just for having opposing views. This backwards third world shit needs to stop.

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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by dang on Friday May 03, 2019 @10:22PM (#19823931)

I think it's clear to most readers, separately from their leftness or rightness, how badly your comment broke the site guidelines. Why not just take them to heart and follow them? It's mostly not that hard, and will have the nice side effect of making your posts more persuasive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by chimpburger on Friday May 03, 2019 @10:42PM (#19824022)

The guidelines state that I'm not allowed to post unkind comments. These people deserve harsh criticism, therefore I am happy to break that guideline.

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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by dang on Friday May 03, 2019 @10:54PM (#19824073)

The guidelines aren't that way because those people necessarily deserve better, but because the community deserves better. When you break the guidelines like that, you're damaging the community you're participating in. Worse, you're damaging it where it's most vulnerable. HN is only valuable because smart, thoughtful people choose to come here.

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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by chimpburger on Saturday May 04, 2019 @03:44PM (#19828807)

Come on man. That's a childish thoughtless response. If you actually read my responses to these nutcases you will agree that THEY are the ones damaging the community by mindlessly supporting this third world dark age of censorship.

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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by dang on Sunday May 05, 2019 @03:42AM (#19831673)

Perhaps, but that doesn't mean you aren't damaging the community as well, and only that damage is within your control to stop.

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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by reallydude on Thursday May 02, 2019 @08:43PM (#19814447)

http://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/894492...

AFAIK, his partner's name is John Lewis.

That being said, marriage licenses are private for obvious reasons and apply to that partnership as outlined in https://health.hawaii.gov/vitalrecords/about-civil-unions/

Relevant:

> The Department of Health can provide certified copies of legal records to verify civil union status in Hawaii to those who are entitled to receive copies pursuant to state law

I got a chuckle from reading that the Domestic Union in Hawaii was signed by Governor Abercrombie, admittedly.

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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by chimpburger on Thursday May 02, 2019 @07:10PM (#19813869)

There is zero evidence that he has white supremacist beliefs. Why haven't journalists found any evidence to the contrary? I don't care who he is married to. It is utterly irrelevant, trivial, small minded, petty nonsense.

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