• Instagram won't ban Laura Loomer after caling to "rise up" against Ilhan Omar
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/laura-loomer-instagram-ilhan-omar_n_5caf94d3e4b098b9a2d0dcba?section=politics&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000016 Instagram said it won’t ban anti-Muslim extremist Laura Loomer from its platform over alarming posts she made this week potentially inciting violence against Muslim congress woman Ilhan Omar (D-Minn). An Instagram spokesperson said the company has removed one of Loomer’s Instagram Stories — in which she recorded herself calling Islam “a cancer on humanity” — for violating its hate speech policy. The spokesperson added that if Loomer continues to violate Instagram’s rules, her account could be banned. The spokesperson, however, added that Loomer’s multiple other concerning and explicitly bigoted posts can stay on the website and do not violate community guidelines.  On Wednesday, Loomer posted a photo of Omar on Instagram. “After 9/11, we said never again,” Loomer wrote. “Ilhan Omar is only pushing for another 9/11!” “We need some patriots to rise up and protect our Constitution so we can prevent the establishment of a caliphate,” Loomer wrote in her post Wednesday, clearly urging her followers to target Omar for harassment or worse and comparing the American congresswoman to terror groups like ISIS, which established a so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria. The story Instagram removed, also posted Wednesday, told Loomer’s followers that Islam, a religion of 1.7 billion people, “is a cancer on humanity and Muslims should not be allowed to seek positions of political office in this country.”
Man, shame the American education system allows people to believe shit like this. If religion was actually taught and not in a preaching sense, this kind of shit would be so much more rare. I used to think the same way too back a few years ago because of my lack of education on the religion. Used to think it was some phoney thing made up back thousands of years ago for some warlord to excuse his troops from raping and killing people when they raided towns, and I have no clue how that became my initial education on the religion's beliefs.
“Islam is a cancer on humanity and Muslims should not be allowed to seek positions of political office in this country.” What happens when I change a few words here? "Roman Catholicism is a cancer on humanity and Christians should not be allowed to seek positions of political office in this country.” Well I must be a terrorist, un-American, and a downright horrible person, right? Meanwhile nobody will remember how anti-Catholic the country was before JFK got elected.
this is literally inciting terrorism lmfao
all persons are equal, just some are more equal than others.
Instagram went from passively profiting from terrorism to actively supporting it.
Stochastic terrorism
If the parents have the same beliefs it's likely rooted in uneducated people.
I've been seeing a uptick of propaganda memes on facebook again. A some of my more conservative friends and republican friends repost them. I don't think they understand what they're doing and actually how they're falling into this propaganda trap. A lot of things I've seen reposted is about Ilhan Omar being responsible for 9/11. Another one I saw was about how we've forgotten what muslims did to us and discussed the whole black-hawk down scenario while bill clinton held back backup to help the soldiers while they died. I saw another "meme" about Sanders and how he is a draft dodger. I don't find it odd that the good ol' meme machines are gearing up and being posted by "patriotic" facebook pages. It's getting close to that time for elections. It is just disgusting that no platform is actually policing their shit and allowing such flagrant misinformation.
with the right beliefs, anyone can be a monster
She's worried that she's giving our info away? What because she's brown? YOU DUMB CUNT! We got a white "Christian" President whose giving away our secrets to a pale pasty nation called Russia.
Yup so US Citizens are allowed by Facebook to call for US Congresswomen to be killed for their religion. There is nothing fundamentally and unfixably broken about that.
Instagram is for anime titties, not encouraging white nationalistic terrorism
I’m not sure how widespread it was and this is probably anecdotal, but it my case the bigoted views came directly from the education system combined with media influences and fear mongering for a few years after 9/11. I don’t really remember my parents expressing too many opinions which were any worse than what I heard from society 24/7 during the early 2000s with the Bush administration. My school taught about “religion” alright. They taught us “Islam is the devil 101”. Even though I should know better by now, my subconscious involuntarily provokes a fear response to anyone wearing a headscarf in public because of that shit.
I hate how almost practically all the social media platforms are in a way or another owned by people who think this fit within freedom of speech. They are one of the responsible actors for causing fascists ( and other problematic groups like anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers and as such ) to rise up.
Israel supporters are the most insufferable little shits and they get away with everything. Pisses me off.
My school was neutral-ish when it came to religion but still spread some misinformation, probably due to how much they oversimplified the subject matter.
Going into more detail a few things I remember. Specifically we didn’t really go over much of the religion or culture itself, but more the political policies of nations where Islam was the official state religion. Mainly we were taught about the barbarism of Sharia law. Because we were edgy fucking teenagers and thought it was funny at the time; the teacher (who was a Navy veteran) assigned the class a mock exercise where we were all judges/jurors enforcing Sharia law and had to come up with fitting punishments for various offenses. For example in one case of slander/libel against a man’s reputation, we decided a fitting punishment to be cutting off the offender’s tongue. One thing which was definitely not funny and disgusted the entire class was a documentary about how one sack of shit came to the USA and married some woman. The man convinced his wife to meet his family overseas to get to know them, but then uses his country’s misogynistic laws to abuse and hold her against her will. The rest of his assbackwards family enabled him and we’re completely fine with it, including the women and children. A few escape attempts and several beatings later, the wife was luckily able to escape the country by fleeing to a US embassy. Nobody really told us these actions were supposed to be atypical of what most Muslims in our country would condone and I thought the religion itself was evil. Didn’t bother to question it either since we took a class trip to ground zero before getting to high school. Again at the time we were still developing mentally when all of this was being thrown at us after 9/11 where bashing Islam was basically considered a public service. Thankfully at the time, there weren’t any Muslims attending the school or who knows what would have happened in that kind of hostile environment.
I recall Maxine Waters saying something similar about Trump and his supporters.
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