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Some Hate Pages Allowed by Facebook (Hint: They are all Liberal)

<p>Conservatives are used to being blocked on Facebook whenever we cover even non-controversial conservative views&period;  One of our own groups&comma; the relatively tame<strong> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;groups&sol;566009500640968">Republicans for Trump<&sol;a>&comma; <&sol;strong>has been blocked over and over&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;outlawmorgan">Outlaw Morgan<&sol;a><&sol;strong>&comma; an outspoken Libertarian commentator who supports Trump &lpar;most of the time&rpar; and who&comma; to the best of my knowledge&comma; has never uttered a word of &&num;8220&semi;hate speech&comma;&&num;8221&semi; is constantly blocked and has been dialed back from a one-time 60 million followers to less than a million&period;<em><strong> I literally just saw Facebook cut him off in the middle of a rant about how Facebook keeps cutting him off&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Facebook loves to preach about its efforts to censor hate speech&comma; but just like its failure to protect user data&comma; Facebook is allowing hate speech to flourish &lpar;at least on the liberal side&rpar;&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The problem with this is that Facebook openly allows hateful content as long as that content targets <span class&equals;"s1">Republicans&comma; whites&comma; President Trump&comma; and the police&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As mentioned above&comma; <span class&equals;"s1">Facebook restricted the political page &&num;8220&semi;Republicans for Trump&comma;&&num;8221&semi; but allowed the anti-police page &&num;8220&semi;CopBlock&period;&&num;8221&semi; Facebook blocks content <&sol;span><span class&equals;"s1">posted by Outlaw Morgan &lpar;a white comedian who loves guns and the US&comma;<&sol;span><span class&equals;"s1"> hates Democrats&comma; and speaks his mind&rpar;&comma; but allows content posted by <&sol;span><span class&equals;"s1">Zellie Imani &lpar;a black activist and writer whose hateful rhetoric targets <&sol;span><span class&equals;"s1">whites&comma; Republicans&comma; and the police&rpar;&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1"><b>Here are a few hate groups Facebook allows&colon; <&sol;b><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1"><b>1&period; Blue Lives Murder <&sol;b><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">&&num;8220&semi;Blue Lives Murder&&num;8221&semi; portrays all police officers as villains who prey on civilians&period; <&sol;span><span class&equals;"s1">The page supports antifa and is in favor of disbanding the police&period; &&num;8220&semi;Blue Lives Murder&&num;8221&semi; has more than 74&comma;000 likes and more than 77&comma;400 followers&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1"><b>2&period; Anti-Fascist News<&sol;b><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">This fascist Facebook page claims to post &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;news and analysis related to anti-fascist and anti-racist organizing&comma; and related social movements&period;” <&sol;span><span class&equals;"s1">Based on a quick scan of the page&comma; &&num;8220&semi;<&sol;span><span class&equals;"s1">Anti-Fascist News&&num;8221&semi; appears to be nothing more than an outlet for criticizing whites&comma; <&sol;span><span class&equals;"s1">conservatives&comma; Republicans&comma; and far-right groups&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">The page has more than 102&comma;000 likes and more than 106&comma;000 followers&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1"><b>3&period; America Hates Us<&sol;b><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">&&num;8220&semi;America Hates Us&&num;8221&semi; is an anti-police&comma; anti-white Facebook page and clothing brand that aims to foster conversations about hate&period; <&sol;span><span class&equals;"s1">The page&&num;8217&semi;s two authors claim the site isn&&num;8217&semi;t &&num;8220&semi;anti-American&comma;&&num;8221&semi; but describ<&sol;span><span style&equals;"font-family&colon; -apple-system&comma; BlinkMacSystemFont&comma; 'Segoe UI'&comma; Roboto&comma; Oxygen-Sans&comma; Ubuntu&comma; Cantarell&comma; 'Helvetica Neue'&comma; sans-serif">e the US as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the uncle that paid for your abortion but who also got you pregnant&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">&&num;8220&semi;America Hates Us&&num;8221&semi; sells T-shirts with provocative messages including&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;slap your local racist&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;people of color don’t exist to help white people understand their privilege&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;free Palestine&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;reparations for black people only&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;white lies matter&comma;” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;straight men are the feds&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">&&num;8220&semi;American Hates Us&&num;8221&semi; has roughly 15&comma;000 likes and followers&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1"><b>4&period; Memes for Better Tomorrow <&sol;b><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">This Facebook page defines itself as as&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Revolutionary pragmatic anti-capitalist memes for general leftist teens&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1"> In reality&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Memes for Better Tomorrow&&num;8221&semi; is a <&sol;span><span class&equals;"s1">group of people who insult&comma; criticize&comma; and ridicule Republicans&period; The current trend on the page is to mock the deaths of<&sol;span><span class&equals;"s1"> conservatives Bill Montgomery and Herman Cain because they died from COVID after refusing to wear face masks&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">The page has 47&comma;879 likes and 49&comma;601 followers&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1"><b>5&period; Socialist Alternative &&num;8211&semi; Red Flag <&sol;b><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">Socialist Alternative is Australia’s biggest revolutionary organization and Red Flag is the group’s &&num;8220&semi;interventionist&&num;8221&semi; newspaper&period; The Facebook page claims to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;bring socialist arguments to the debates of today” and seeks to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;win people to socialism” and convince people that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism is the solution to the problems of society&period;” <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1">The page presents Red Flag as an alternative news source free from the &&num;8220&semi;capitalist lies&&num;8221&semi; and &&num;8220&semi;right-wing bias&&num;8221&semi; present in the mainstream media&period; <&sol;span><span class&equals;"s1">As you would expect from a group of socialists&comma; most of the posts and comments on the Facebook page are about hating rich people&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1"><span class&equals;"s1"> &&num;8220&semi;Socialist Alternative &&num;8211&semi; Red Flag&&num;8221&semi; has <&sol;span><span class&equals;"s1">more than 90&comma;000 likes and followers&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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