Re:YouTube can restrict PragerU because it is a private foru...
by _mdpn on Thursday February 27, 2020 @11:39AM
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Margaret Sanger unapologetically supported eugenics and sterilizing 'inferior' people. Does that make Planned Parenthood a bad idea?
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Re:YouTube can restrict PragerU because it is a private foru...
by shadowgovt on Thursday February 27, 2020 @11:43AM
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It makes Planned Parenthood an organization one should judge in modern context separable from its origins, much like freedom of speech and ownership of other people from Greek philosophy.
Re:YouTube can restrict PragerU because it is a private foru...
by foolinaround on Thursday February 27, 2020 @02:06PM
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It should certainly make you stop and think...
Would'nt you be suspicious if Hitler came up with some sort of program?
Re:YouTube can restrict PragerU because it is a private foru...
by Zuider on Thursday February 27, 2020 @07:30PM
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This kind of reasoning opens you up to the genetic fallacy. If you believe the moral status of the origin of a thing is necessarily transmitted to the thing itself, then you are liable to consider Hitler's pernicious concept of Der Volk and the Volkswagen to be equally evil.