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Re:Andrew Ng: The suspension of H1B is bad for the US and ba... by akuchling on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:08PM (#23615827)
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/26/783047584/leaked-emails-fuel-...

"For almost three decades, Jared Taylor has been publishing his ideas about race at the American Renaissance magazine and now at a website called AmRen, which is considered a mouthpiece for white supremacist ideology. ... The website is not well-known outside white nationalist circles — but it found an audience in White House adviser Stephen Miller."

Re:Andrew Ng: The suspension of H1B is bad for the US and ba... by qazpot on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:28PM (#23616192)
To be fair the bar to be considered a white supermacist is very low in today's political correctness environment.
Re:Andrew Ng: The suspension of H1B is bad for the US and ba... by prezjordan on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:47PM (#23616487)
And what is your evidence of that?
Re:Andrew Ng: The suspension of H1B is bad for the US and ba... by dx87 on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @01:24PM (#23617147)
I've personally been accused of being a neo-nazi on reddit because my username includes the number 88, which is only there because my wife's birth year is 1988 and I'm not creative enough to think of a unique name. I've seen the same frivolous accusations thrown around here as well.
Re:Andrew Ng: The suspension of H1B is bad for the US and ba... by leereeves on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @01:21PM (#23617092)
The bar is so low that Jewish (like Stephen Miller) and even black (e.g. Ben Carson, Candace Owens) people are frequently called white supremacists. So low that people saying "It's ok to be white" were called white supremacists.

Does the term have any meaning now, or has it become simply a slur for anyone whose political beliefs differ, like "communist" or "terrorist" before it?

Re:Andrew Ng: The suspension of H1B is bad for the US and ba... by joubert on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @08:00AM (#23626874)
Agreed that there's risk in overuse which can lead to numbness for the real thing.

In some ways, I'd argue we should then be even more vigilant because white supremacist rhetoric / apologist sentiment and actions are having an easier time to hide behind the veils of fuzziness.

One comment though: you do not have to be white to be a white supremacist. White supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to people of other races, and should thus dominate them.

We see this pattern in other arenas too, e.g. gays and homophobia or women and gender bias.

Re:Andrew Ng: The suspension of H1B is bad for the US and ba... by andrewla on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:33PM (#23616285)
This has no sources other than the SPLC's analysis of some leaked emails and selective quotations from them [1]. The SPLC has further examinations as well [2].

Look at the out-of-context quotes given in the first link and decide for yourself whether this is enough to justify a charge of being a white supremecist, even given that the article is explicitly dedicated to working towards that conclusion. Don't just take their word for it. I'll gladly concede that Miller is anti-immigration to the point of being xenophobic, but white supremecist is a huge stretch.

[1] https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/11/12/stephen-mille...

[2] https://www.splcenter.org/stephen-miller-breitbart-emails

Re:Andrew Ng: The suspension of H1B is bad for the US and ba... by nbardy on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:48PM (#23616509)
The bar for proving that "America is run by white supremacists" needs to be a lot higher than, one guy in the white house reads a blog.
Re:Andrew Ng: The suspension of H1B is bad for the US and ba... by slowmotiony on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:11PM (#23615865)
So Stephen Miller is a white supremacist now? He must be hiding it pretty well, since I've heard through hundreds of hours of his podcast with Raheem Kasam and he has never said anything remotely racist.
Re:Andrew Ng: The suspension of H1B is bad for the US and ba... by tomjakubowski on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:15PM (#23615948)
Stephen Miller, the one working in the White House, doesn't host any podcast. You are thinking of Jason Miller.
Re:Andrew Ng: The suspension of H1B is bad for the US and ba... by slowmotiony on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:20PM (#23616042)
You're right, sorry about that one.
Re:Andrew Ng: The suspension of H1B is bad for the US and ba... by compuguy on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:22PM (#23616086)
Last time I checked there is quite a lot of evidence pointing to him being a white supremacist: https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/13/politics/katie-mchugh-stephen...
Re:Andrew Ng: The suspension of H1B is bad for the US and ba... by slowmotiony on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:33PM (#23616288)
Thanks for the link, I confused him with the chief strategist of trump campaign Jason Miller.