Comment by UncleMeat

2 years ago

What hyperbole? We've got a policy that is link-banning while unbanning people who are holding "legally allowed opinions" (nice edit) like Mr. West and other racists.

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josteink  2 years ago

The edit was a clarification based on your comment which was clearly misunderstanding what I was trying to say. Nothing malicious/nefarious intended.

Also: while Kanye is clearly his own kind of category of crazy, what “other racists”?

I don’t know a single such case.

  • optionalsquid  2 years ago

    > Also: while Kanye is clearly his own kind of category of crazy, what “other racists”?

    >> I don’t know a single such case.

    One example I remember reading about was Andrew Anglin [1], the founder of The Daily Stormer [2], a website that, to save you a click, Wikipedia describes as "an American far-right, neo-Nazi, white supremacist, misogynist, Islamophobic, antisemitic, and Holocaust denial commentary and message board website that advocates for a second genocide of Jews".

    As his Wikipedia article [1] notes,

    > Anglin was banned from Twitter in 2013, but was reinstated weeks after the site was acquired by Elon Musk in 2022.

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Anglin

    [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Stormer