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sufi

sufi

lala
This is good
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/...usiness-model-of-breitbart-and-fake-news.html

I already emailed Snowdonia windows (suspiciously white supremacist name for a business???), and some immigration shysters

(after switching off my adblocker and prvacy badger) i got lots of PPI adds too, which i expect it's pointless to follow up

hope this is the right mix of righteous outrage and potential blackmail/public shaming

Hi
I got to your site via an advert on the well-known American extreme right wing fake news website Breitbart.

I don't know whether you are aware that your products are being advertised on this hateful site, but I would appreciate it if you contact your ad agency and ask them not to feature your brand on that page. Please refer to this article if you're unsure what this is about https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/...usiness-model-of-breitbart-and-fake-news.html

and feel free to drop me a line if you want any further info, screenshots etc,

Many thanks,
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sufi

sufi

lala
i wonder whether their income is affected too, ie the rates they can charge per ad if they are less desirable, i dabbled in google ads before iirc it can be very algorhythmy like that
 
droid

droid

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Interesting to see that child abuse is beyond the pale, but scientific racism, sexism, transphobia, support for fascists, organised racist harassment etc is all within the boundaries of acceptable behaviour.
 
B

baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
Yep, exactly. And also what he said, whilst vastly problematic, for once didn't feel like it was coming from a place of hatred shorn of any other emotion - not that I have any interest in excusing anything he ever says, just pointing out the difference in register.

After reading about all this yesterday, I was thinking about why MY triggers visceral feelings of disgust (and yes, hatred) in me beyond almost any other public figure I can think of. No firm conclusions, but he's learned how to provoke in such a specifically odious way, because I don't think I'm the only one who feels like that. I feel repelled by him at a level way beyond the stupidity, bluster and route one bullying of Trump, say.
 
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firefinga

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droid said:
Interesting to see that child abuse is beyond the pale,
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Paedophilia is one of the right's most obsessive topics.

Polanski=proof of liberal Hollywood's phaedophilia
"PizzaGate"
etc etc

And from my fav right wing twitter feed:
"In virtually every country, the top pedophile rings are elitists who are protected by the media. You don't have the moral high ground."
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
droid said:
Interesting to see that child abuse is beyond the pale, but scientific racism, sexism, transphobia, support for fascists, organised racist harassment etc is all within the boundaries of acceptable behaviour.
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It's just politics ala The Sun, innit? Paedos are up there with muslims and feminists in terms of groups that need 'sorting out'. In fact, paedophilia is something I see Islamophobes persistently bring up as a criticism of the Qu'ran, so perhaps they feel they'll lose the moral 'high ground' if they're seen to endorse underage buggery?

Pretty much the only thing about Milo Yerman that doesn't fit the established pattern of right-wing anger is his homosexuality. His fans seem to tolerate/enjoy this aspect of him because it provides a useful shield for defending his bigotry ('how could a gay man be bigoted?'), and because he seems to be, or at least affects to be, ashamed of it himself.
 
droid

droid

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This isnt a moral issue for the right, its business.

But it does expose that there are limits to liberal ideas of 'free speech'. Nobody has a problem with no platforming paedophiles, and if one hateful, damaging and dangerous worldview is beyond the realms of permissible discussion, then why aren't others?

After all, Naziism is, qualitatively and quantifiably, far more dangerous than paedophilia.
 
firefinga

firefinga

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Corpsey said:
It's just politics ala The Sun, innit? Paedos are up there with muslims and feminists in terms of groups that need 'sorting out'.
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Not at all. Clerical child abuse has been a constant topic in the western world for at least two decades. It may got a bit more quiet on that front recently but still - the average secular westener's first things when hearing "paedophile" was (and possibly still is) "priests"
 
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Benny Bunter

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funny, prominent transgender activist (and speaker at the Women's march) Janet Mock expressed more or less the same sentiments as Milo a couple of years ago and no one said anything.
 
vimothy

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yurp
Benny B said:
funny, prominent transgender activist (and speaker at the Women's march) Janet Mock expressed more or less the same sentiments as Milo a couple of years ago and no one said anything.
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Plenty of people have expressed the same sentiments as Milo, many of whom remain revered figures (e.g.)--but not to US conservatives.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Corpsey said:
It's just politics ala The Sun, innit? Paedos are up there with muslims and feminists in terms of groups that need 'sorting out'. In fact, paedophilia is something I see Islamophobes persistently bring up as a criticism of the Qu'ran, so perhaps they feel they'll lose the moral 'high ground' if they're seen to endorse underage buggery?
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You hardly have to be an 'Islamophobe' to find some of the Quran's content a bit iffy, any more than you have to be 'anti-Christian' to find bits of the Bible objectionable.

Corpsey said:
Pretty much the only thing about Milo Yerman that doesn't fit the established pattern of right-wing anger is his homosexuality. His fans seem to tolerate/enjoy this aspect of him because it provides a useful shield for defending his bigotry ('how could a gay man be bigoted?'), and because he seems to be, or at least affects to be, ashamed of it himself.
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I think he's also tried to use his sexuality to worm out of accusations of racism, to whit: "I eat darkie-dick for breakfast, lunch and dinner, so how can I be racist?"
 
luka

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You hardly have to be an 'Islamophobe' to find some of the Quran's content a bit iffy, any more than you have to be 'anti-Christian' to find bits of the Bible objectionable.
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But Corpsey didn't say that. He said Islamophobes constantly bring up paedophilia wrt Islam. Which any skim through YouTube comments will verify.

It's a worthwhile point to make I don't know why you feel the need to qualify it.
 
luka

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But in as far as it's rational, what do you think? What are you afraid of in that scenario? Islam as giant non representational blob, or mob violence, official state discrimination, popular demagogues, etc etc
 
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