rgossip30 wrote: » The presception being that the left are on the side of humanity they are just as capeable of being an ugly angry mob.
Trump Is Right wrote: » The left are totally and spectacularly shooting themselves in the foot by banning certain political or social commentators/activists from social media sites.... all it does it highlight how biased and unethical they are, when faced with opposing viewpoints to their own! Ultimately this will only speed up the development of more social media platforms that cater for greater variety and greater equity. Most people want to hear all sides of the argument... even things they might find mildly offensive or highly disagreeable. Because it all helps to better form your own viewpoints on subjects... censorship never wins in the long run. It's only a stop-gap measure. Like the boy that picks up his ball and storms off the pitch... there will be other balls and other pitches! The game always supersedes the players!
Trump Is Right wrote: » @OMM 0000 Those stats don't really give you an accurate picture of who is in control in a country like the USA... just because more Indian American families have slightly higher per household income, than say British Americans... this does not mean that there are lots of influential Indians in powerful positions within American society! The top end wealthiest people and families in the USA, are overwhelmingly white. (I'm not saying there is anything wrong with that... just pointing it out) Extreme wealth is where the real power is in the USA... this is a very small club, and the vast majority are white and male! But that won't necessarily show up in certain statistics, depending on which ones you decide to use...
OMM 0000 wrote: » The reason they are considered oppressed (by leftists) is because they want equity. That means there is an equal amount of everyone in a position. So if there are 100 CEOS, it should be broken down as follows: 50% are male, 50% are female Each 50% is broken up as follows: x% white, x% black, x% brown, etc., based on demographic data. Because these people aren't able to think properly, they haven't thought it through. What % should be heterosexual and gay? What % should be tall and short? What % should be fat and slim? What % should be bald and non-bald? Etc. It goes on forever.
RWCNT wrote: » I must have been in the jax when we voted on that at the annual leftists conference.
Snake Plisken wrote: » Sargon gives his view on the situation and why it's a disgrace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVngunV-wi0
lbc2019 wrote: » Who are the extreme leftist in power?
OMM 0000 wrote: » Leftist usually means extreme left. It doesn't mean normal folk. The problem is these extremists are getting into positions of power. Surely you've heard the term "equity" banded about? It doesn't mean equality. It means exactly what I explained above.
RWCNT wrote: » Leftist doesn't mean extreme left, "Extreme leftist" would cover that, and what is considered "extreme" will vary in definition depending on context. The left, including the extreme left, is not a monolith. There are many squabbles and disagreements. Your understanding of equity is fine but there's far more to the oppression/privilege argument than that. What kind of sources do you use to get your understanding of these topics? It seems like you've taken on a lot of the talking points of the right wing/"centrist" youtube talky men that you often get posters on here posting up rather than bothering to articulate their own opinions (shoutout to Snake, DS & the army of posters that spammed AH with that Stefan Molyneux Ireland 2030 video). These kind of commentators generally tend to oversimplify things and construct an idea of "leftists" to suit their current argument. I hope that doesn't come off as patronising, I disagree with much of what you've put forward in this thread but you seem to demonstrate a desire to understand different points of view, fair play.
RWCNT wrote: » Why are we supposed to care what Carl of Swindon thinks?
OMM 0000 wrote: » Leftist usually means extreme left. It doesn't mean normal folk.
The problem is these extremists are getting into positions of power.
ohnonotgmail wrote: » so you're going to ignore the examples of hate speech and incitement to violence that FB quoted when they banned him?
mcmoustache wrote: » Of course. Victims of the alt-right grift feel compelled to support the various supplement salesmen and basement youtubers online whenever they appear in a thread. The only problem is that despite the compulsion to defend, they often lack the expertise to form a coherent argument in favour of their favourite youtube personality. This leaves them with very little room to manoeuvre so what you get are slogans such as "Tommy is a Legend", "Tommy's not afraid", "Tommy won't be censored", "Tommy's being censored" etc and of course, the inevitable video of a youtuber. This argument by youtube is really popular among Jordan Peterson fans but other youtube grifters perform the same trick - they make the viewer feel clever without having educated them in any meaningful way. As a consequence, the fans of these videos often have no option but to insist that you watch a video - if they could form a coherent opinion, they would. The problem is that they can't and they know this. To address these shortcomings, they offer up a video knowing that they watched it and it made them feel clever. If you would only watch this three-hour video Jordan Peterson shoving a dildo up his ass, you too would be convinced that he's a genius and all the other alt-right shíte and, as a bonus, you too could feel clever. Again, they won't summarise the video because the grift is all about making the viewer feel clever while saying nothing of substance. If there was anything of substance in the video, it could be summarised and the important points could be written in such a way that didn't look stupid when put in the form of text. But there isn't. And that's why we now have the lads who hover around threads on race like flies to shíte putting up videos of their favourite supplement salesman or basement video producer.
rgossip30 wrote: » I don't see any direct quotes just generalisations , incitement to hate and those he associates with..
ohnonotgmail wrote: » i have no idea who the peter fonda you referred to is. I have no idea what sanctions twitter against them assuming they did even tweet what they said. How can i comment on something i have no knowledge of?
OMM 0000 wrote: » Think through your argument. Twitter is absolutely full of tweets which say white people should be killed, men are scum, heterosexuals are scum, etc. There were loads of people asking for the Covington High School kids to be doxxed or killed. These are leftist opinions (intersectionality). These accounts don't get banned.
Deleted User wrote: » Listening to other peoples opinions about events and putting them there for people to view themselves is hardly a crime. I would prefer to watch a video that people with opposing views found enlightening or interesting and make up my own opinion. I presume (and I could be wrong) that if people summarised a video for you, you would pick arguments out of context due to the fact that a)you haven't seen the video and b) have demonstrated that you have no intention on being open minded that you could be proven wrong. I know that I base my opinions after hearing as much information as possible. If you don't want to watch a video, don't. But to slate people for providing them to people who do want to watch them is a little silly. I get that people hate Tommy Robinson. Some people don't. They both aren't necessarily wrong.
Cienciano wrote: » He deleted the tweet and issued an apology. Has Alex Jones or Tommy Robinson done the same? Have you links to these accounts or tweets? Have you reported any?
ohnonotgmail wrote: » Thats all great. So post YOUR opinions then. Linking to a video you watched is not posting an opinion. This is a discussion site not a video link dump. And they are generally not posted so others who do want to watch them can watch them. They are posted as a rebuttal to another users post. A link to a video is not a rebuttal.
Deleted User wrote: » Listening to other peoples opinions about events and putting them there for people to view themselves is hardly a crime. I would prefer to watch a video that people with opposing views found enlightening or interesting and make up my own opinion.
Deleted User wrote: » I wouldn't consider myself as a supporter of Tommy Robinson but I certainly think that the level of hatred that he receives is unwarranted. I wouldn't consider him far right but agree that a large number of his supporters could be. I feel that while often hard left views are tolerated (and sometimes encouraged) by the media (antifa etc), anything that veers right regarding transgender, islam, mens rights, abortion etc is shut down or exaggerated to make them seem bigotted and hatefilled.
According to Facebook, a written warning had been sent to Mr Robinson last month about a number of posts on his page that had violated its community standards, including: a post calling Muslims "filthy scum bags" a post urging people to terrorise and behead those who follow the Koran a post urging people to "make war" on Muslims multiple videos depicting individuals being bullied
Deleted User wrote: » I feel that while often hard left views are tolerated (and sometimes encouraged) by the media (antifa etc),
ohnonotgmail wrote: » Yeah, tommy is a great lad. Not in the least bit far right.
mcmoustache wrote: » I have to stop you there. Are antifa that mainstream? I thought that the general consensus, even among people who would describe themselves as being on the left, was that they were generally crust trouble-makers. I don't even know who their high-profile figures are but I could list a heap of high-profile alt-right figures without even straining myself.