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Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page by pvg on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:35AM (#25743935)
Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page by ulucs on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:40AM (#25743974)
Sorry, that's misinformation (pulled right from your search). Nothing there points to Paul being racist

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theatlantic.com/pol...

https://www.fox19.com/story/16449477/reality-check-the-story...

Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page by pvg on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:48AM (#25744045)
I think 'cherrypicked out of your search' is more accurate. For instance, here's the first author you selected "Michael Brendan Dougherty is a senior writer at National Review [...]"

Wikipedia is maybe a more reasonable averaging of all sources. And it's mostly a long history of bigoted stuff that Ron Paul was not responsible for but somehow kept showing up in a newsletter with his name on it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul_newsletters

Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page by drak0n1c on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:58AM (#25744114)
Wikipedia is also very biased on political matters, according to its co-founder Larry Sanger.

https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/

Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page by ulucs on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:58AM (#25744113)
I don't get your point, even Wikipedia claims that he didn't write them.
Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page by tptacek on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @11:55AM (#25749632)
Well, if 51% of Wikipedians believe it's true, it must be so.
Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page by phoinix on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:45AM (#25744022)
Actually in the 1978 that published some controversial publications i was not even born yet. However Ron is saying that they were taken out of context. Authoritative news usually do that, that's why 90% of the time they spread fake news. Some people may argue that authoritative news spread fake news 99% of the time, but i find that a hyperbole and i stick to the 90%. Point me if you so desire to the exact publication with the context around it. One or two pages would be fine. Thanks.
Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page by pvg on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:54AM (#25744089)
Ron Paul's newsletter didn't contain bigoted content because 90% of mainstream news is fake news doesn't sound empirically plausible to me. What are the 9 fake stories of the 10 top stories reported in mainstream media yesterday? Or really any 9 fake stories, out of the thousands.
Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page by phoinix on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:13AM (#25744227)
Well that 99% percent statement was not meant to be read absolutely seriously, but many news outlets take out of context, sentences of the political opposition all the time. I am sorry, but half the truth, is half the lie and not half the truth. You still didn't point out a good example of a racist statement from Paul. With the full context around it. And if you can, limit the statement's time horizon on last one or two decades.
Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:02AM (#25744144)
> Some people may argue that authoritative news spread fake news 99% of the time, but i find that a hyperbole and i stick to the 90%.

Nice try, but referencing an equally baseless but more extreme claim doesn't make your own claim less baseless.

Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page by phoinix on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:16AM (#25744249)
Thanks, that's true.