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struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 02:41 PM Nov 2017

Retweets far-right group's anti-Muslim videos

... The first tweet from Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, claims to show a Muslim migrant attacking a man on crutches.

This was followed by two more videos of people Ms Fransen claims to be Muslim.

Responding to Mr Trump's posts, UK Prime Minister Theresa May's official spokesman said it was "wrong for the president to have done this".

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Mrs May and other world leaders knew that "these are real threats that we have to talk about" ...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42166663

There's a reason Julius Streicher was hanged: systematic hate mongering has ugly social consequences

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Retweets far-right group's anti-Muslim videos (Original Post) struggle4progress Nov 2017 OP
Add incitement to grounds for impeachment dalton99a Nov 2017 #1
Systemic hatemongering, even pointing out a specific group of people for the hate and Fred Sanders Nov 2017 #2

Fred Sanders

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2. Systemic hatemongering, even pointing out a specific group of people for the hate and
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 02:50 PM
Nov 2017

lies to support the hate is called the "Fox News system". And why it is legal to do so is indeed very ugly with ugly consequences, but....protected free speech...why again??

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