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sultanofswing | 5 years ago

So at worst we have someone who is intentionally inciting violence.

At best we have a leader of our country too irresponsible to do due diligence on his own posts to the entire free world. He has literally infinite resources at his disposal to communicate effectively about this.

Being a hateful bigot and or an ignoramus should both be unacceptable positions for the leader of the US. Furthermore this isn't the first time he's said or done hateful / bigoted / ignorant things / lied so you'll excuse people if they don't give him the 'benefit of the doubt'.

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bryan_w|5 years ago

> Being a hateful bigot and or an ignoramus should both be unacceptable positions for the leader of the US

That's something you take up at the ballot box or with your Congressperson/governer, not Facebook.

sultanofswing|5 years ago

When you have a 'bully pulpit' as powerful and far reaching as Facebook now provides to the president then it is totally reasonable to want to hold them accountable (given you disagree with their stance).

I don't exactly understand what is objectionable about protesting the decision making of corporate entities given the immense power they hold?

This is like saying you shouldn't boycott BP for their oil spill, you should just complain to your congressperson. I don't understand why you can't complain on both fronts?