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Re:YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer... by eli_gottlieb on Monday June 29, 2020 @04:34PM (#23682564)
>The worst of the alt-right are far, far worse than the worst of the extreme left (antifa, maybe? Though there is no alt-left).

Nah, there are plenty of people advocating for explicit ethno-separatism on the far left -- just look at Louis Farrakhan and his lefty pals. They just don't have very big YouTube channels. People more-or-less naturally ignore them except when they turn out to protests to hijack an ostensibly liberal or socialist cause.

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Re:YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer... by halostatue on Monday June 29, 2020 @06:07PM (#23683850)
Louis Farrakhan is not left-leaning. He’s as conservative as they get. He just happens to not be a white supremacist.
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Re:YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer... by eli_gottlieb on Monday June 29, 2020 @08:25PM (#23685155)
Tell that to the Women's March, damnit.
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Re:YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer... by sweetheart on Monday June 29, 2020 @05:06PM (#23683064)
The same group that classifies Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam as a hate group (the SLPC) is also saying that the idea that there is a liberal equivalent to the alt-right is a misconception. And you disagreed with what I was saying, but then yourself also stated that there is a large difference between the people who were banned and extreme leftists: the size of their audience.
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