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It's not far-left to be against the KKK terrorist group.

Can you name any Antifa members that Twitter have banned? David Duke isn't even relevant. He's a nobody boogey man.

I'm sure a lot of the accounts of ISIS members and supporters that Twitter banned weren't "relevant" people either. Still happy they're gone from the platform. David Duke did have tens of thousands of followers and was a head of the KKK terrorist group, so he probably wasn't a complete nobody like you suggest. I'm not tied into white supremacist circles to know how much sway he still has there, but good riddance.

I don't know, but it's not far-left to be against fascism, either.

No but it is clearly far left to take over city blocks, declare autonomous zones, destroy public property, terrorize citizens and public officials, etc. and there's plenty of Antifa sympathizers or supporters on Twitter. There's plenty of moral hazard with the amount of influence and propaganda power that tech companies have today and it's a very corrosive, dangerous, long-term destructive thing that scares me far more than David Duke.

I regularly see promotion and defense of rioting, anti-white racism, and threats of violence from Twitter. Hell, I'll never forget all of the blue check marks saying they wanted to punch that high school Covington kid for literally standing in place with an awkward smirk.

Twitter absolutely safe-harbors the extreme left. I think it's the only tech company I would refuse to work for due to their moral failings.

What about "White lives don't matter. As white lives" from a Cambridge University professor? Twitter didn't ban her for that, and the university defended her statement as free speech [1]. The same Cambridge University that rescinded Jordan Peterson's speaking invitation because “[Cambridge] is an inclusive environment and we expect all our staff and visitors to uphold our principles. There is no place here for anyone who cannot,” [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priyamvada_Gopal#%22White_live...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/mar/20/cambridge-...

Edit as reply due to posting limit: It wasn't meant to convince you the KKK shouldn't be banned. It was only meant to correct the misleading implication that opposing the KKK is as "left" as Twitter gets.

(Scare quotes around "left" because I don't believe there's anything inherently left about "white lives don't matter". I.e. one can be a radical leftist without believing that.)

Simple they should both be banned for violating the terms of service.

That said as much as I think that that professor is a door knob that should’ve been fired instead of promoted I also don’t think that she has nearly as much impact as the fucking leader of the KKK on social media.

None of that convinces me that the KKK is anything but an abhorrent terrorist hate group who should be banned from Twitter like ISIS.

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