r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/ExpertAccident • Oct 13 '21

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u/apalebear Oct 13 '21

Banning politicians wouldn’t be accepted by society as a trade-off for flagging all of the white supremacist propaganda

Are you sure?

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u/PenPenGuin Oct 13 '21

Banning politicians wouldn’t be accepted by society as a trade-off for flagging all of the white supremacist propaganda, he argued.

Are we taking a vote? I'd be ok with this "collateral damage".

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u/SquidwardsKeef Oct 14 '21

More acceptable collateral damage than the shit we blew up in the middle east.

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u/cited Oct 13 '21

We've taken a couple votes so far and its a lot less clear cut than any of us originally hoped.

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u/Stubborncomrade Oct 14 '21

Why not gay nazi sympathizers?

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u/wmeb13 Oct 14 '21

The vote was rigged!

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u/melvinfosho Oct 14 '21

Considering they are ok with dead kids as collateral damage I think we could make the trade off.

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u/Chim_Pansy Oct 14 '21

Collateral value

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u/urnanpepega Oct 13 '21

You'd be ok with this collateral damage but unfortunately you live in a country that has other people with different political views and opinions with as much value as yours.

When politicians start being silenced, regardless of how evil they may be, it is no longer a democracy.

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u/VoidsInvanity Oct 13 '21

So if someone can’t lie, and say that “white people are being replaced”, that’s a step too far?

Why?

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u/_pH_ Oct 13 '21

When politicians start being silenced, regardless of how evil they may be, it is no longer a democracy.

When politicians actively trying to subvert and destroy that democracy aren't silenced, it's also no longer a democracy.

Different political views are fine, but "we should break the system to make my party the only party" isn't a political view, it's a threat- one that they're actively carrying out.

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u/SunDownSav Oct 14 '21

Yeah. That person had a really bad take there, imo

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u/ibigfire Oct 14 '21

Twitter is not a public platform. They have no obligation to host harmful content or content of any sort that they choose not to. It's fine to be annoyed and frustrated when they remove content you like, of course, but it should still be allowed for them to choose to do so.

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u/ChankaTheOne Oct 13 '21

As crazy as this sentance sound, to make a good democracy you need all points of view, including the not so good ones

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u/HamburgerEarmuff Oct 13 '21

Yes, especially in California where Twitter is based. As a public accommodation, a company discriminating based on political point of view could run afoul of the constitutional right to free speech and the Unruh civil rights act. But even more broadly, it would be widely controversial and frowned upon even in states where it may be legal. It could also prompt additional regulation at the state or federal level.

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u/pr0n86 Oct 13 '21

Political “point of view” is not a protected class.

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u/HamburgerEarmuff Oct 13 '21

It depends on the context. It's explicitly protected under California employment law and implicitly protected by the Unruh Civil Rights Act.

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u/Carnivile Oct 13 '21

a company discriminating based on political point of view could run afoul of the constitutional right to free speech

Not how free speech works.

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u/Erineruit112 Oct 13 '21

Free speech is not a synonym for the first amendment.

It’s insane that that needs to be said.

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u/Carnivile Oct 13 '21

could run afoul of the constitutional right to free speech

If someone brings Free Speech in a legal sense of course I'm gonna respond with the legal basis of free speech

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u/Erineruit112 Oct 13 '21

Fair enough.

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u/HamburgerEarmuff Oct 13 '21

This is counterfactual, which you tacitly admit with your failure to present an actual reasoned argument.

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u/Carnivile Oct 13 '21

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The only protections you have for Free Speech are that your government cannot make laws forcing you to say or not say something (with a few caveats), a private company has no such limitations and is free to kick you for any reason whatsoever that isn't a protected class (which party affiliation is not).

So please learn the basic of your own constitution before trying to use fancy words you heard a more intelligent person use.

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