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> Alex Jones calling a specific person a rat without any generalization when that person has been targeting him for harassment and deplatforming is anti-Semitic?

Please don’t waste time assuming you’re talking to people who are completely unaware of his history and unable to check Wikipedia. If you want to defend Alex Jones, justify pizzagate, harassing the parents of massacre victims, or calling for armed uprising — i.e. the things which actually got him banned.

I know why you aren’t, of course, because it would make the false equivalence of trying to compare him to Jeong a complete farce, not to mention raising some uncomfortable questions about your shared values. You clearly like to present yourself as speaking for some relatively mainstream group but that’s incompatible with defending extremists like Jones.

> Except right wing people don’t talk like that.

You seriously expect everyone to have forgotten the blood and soil guys? The birthers and other racists — like the figurehead of your party?




> i.e. the things which actually got him banned.

So twitter was lying when they said he was banned for his video with the CNN guy?

> false equivalence of trying to compare him to Jeong a complete farce

Exactly - he clearly is not as bigoted, racist, and hateful as Jeong.

A more similar comparison would be Sarah Jeong and Richard Spencer.

> but that’s incompatible with defending extremists like Jones.

Why? I don’t need to agree with everything you say to defend your right to speak.

Alex Jones is a conspiracy nut but he’s also brought up lots of interesting topics worth discussing.

There is no need to spread malicious lies about him like saying he has called for armed uprisings.

> blood and soil guys

Ah yes the fringe fake right who want socialism and open borders but only for whites.

Maybe you should put down the fake news and go out and meet some conservatives. There are millions of us in California.

> The birthers

The birthers belong in the same category as the 9/11 truthers and the current Trump-Russia conspiracy theorists.

You can hardly compare them with hardcore racists like Jeong.




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