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You're arguing with the least interesting part of my point.

Just watch how many radical left videos get removed, irrespective of what group posted them.

You appear to not be understanding my point. The videos being removed are not some "radical right" that serves as the opposite of your definition of "radical left". They are "channels that advocate for neo-Nazism, white supremacy and other bigoted ideologies". BLM, Antifa, etc. are not the "left" equivalent of these "right" viewpoints.

As someone who finds them both distasteful and hateful; yes, they are very similar. All sides need to reign in their extremists, or become defined by them.

"similar" is a very vague term. We are talking ideologies that call for the extermination of other races here, in what way is Black Lives Matter equivalent?

One is about creating violence and hate against certain races, other is about reducing violence and hate against a race. They couldn't be more dissimilar.

Black Lives Matter literally exists to highlight disproportionate police violence against people of color;

not only are they not calling for expelling whites (the "reverse" of what a lot of white nationalists call for), what they are asking for is that people of color be treated by the state enforcement mechanism at parity with white people.

You may find that distasteful, but it is difficult to see what aspect of that is hateful.

From their own website: "We are working for a world where Black lives are no longer systematically targeted for demise."

https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/

I'm only writing all this because it's very important not to let rhetoric like "white nationalists and Black Lives Matter are equivalent"; they're not and it's disingenuous or dishonest to conflate them.

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