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Re:Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of prefere... by montagg on Friday August 07, 2020 @11:58AM (#24083307)
These are from the SPLC’s list of quotes:

“I don’t view humanity as a single species...” —Podcast FDR2768, “Collective Guilt for Fun and Profit”, Saturday call-in show, August 9, 2014

“The whole breeding arena of the species needs to be cleaned the f--- up!” —Podcast FDR2740, “Conformity and the Cult of ‘Friendship’,” Wednesday call-in show July 2, 2014

"Screaming 'racism' at people because blacks are collectively less intelligent...is insane." —YouTube video, The Death of Europe | European Migrant Crisis, October 4, 2015

“You cannot run a high IQ [white] society with low IQ [non-white] people…these [non-white] immigrants are going to fail...and they're not just going to fail a little, they are going to fail hard…they're not staying on welfare because they’re lazy...they’re doing what is economically the best option for them...you are importing a gene set that is incompatible with success in a free-market economy.” —YouTube video, The Death of Europe | European Migrant Crisis, October 4, 2015

“...white people will bend over backwards to accommodate you, but when they finally get that they’re just being taken advantage of...you will see a backlash, and that backlash will be quick, decisive, and brutal.” —YouTube video, The Death of Germany | European Migrant Crisis, September 16, 2015

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Re:Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of prefere... by luckylion on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:07PM (#24083435)
That's Molyneux though, not Damore, right? Because the GP comment spoke about Damore and all the people who "defended" (aka didn't condemn and had actually read the memo) him. That suddenly turned into "praising that sort of thing" and suddenly it's "far right", which turns into back seat moderation in the form of (paraphrased) "do we really want the literal Nazis here?"

It's a terrible comment that belongs on Reddit, not HN.

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Re:Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of prefere... by devalgo on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:07PM (#24083424)
Molyneux is detestable but SLPC has no credibility. They recently settled a defamation lawsuit against Majid Nawaz an anti-extremism Muslim reformer who they labeled as an anti-muslim extremist. It's in the same vein as people who call Ben Shapiro, an orthodox jew, a Nazi. It's simply ridiculous hysterics.
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Re:Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of prefere... by JshWright on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:15PM (#24083528)
Which of the quotes are you disputing the accuracy of?
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Re:Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of prefere... by devalgo on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:19PM (#24083573)
Where did I say I dispute the quotes? I said Molyneux is a dirtbag but SPLC is not a credible org.
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Re:Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of prefere... by JshWright on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:34PM (#24083793)
The only reason to bring up their credibility in this context is to call into question the accuracy of the quotes.
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Re:Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of prefere... by devalgo on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:45PM (#24083913)
No... It's to point out that the particular claim to authority that SPLC is the adjudicator on who is racist or not is stupid. OP could have easily posted the quote directly from Molyneux's twitter or wherever he rants at without invoking SPLC.
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