With that said, YouTube's INSANE overreaction to this and the punishing of innocent channels is unacceptable. But those are two different things and are not mutually exclusive. I worked w/ Michael and believe he's a good guy. But he's just tone-deaf and wrong on this.
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And frankly...I have no idea why any "progressives" would be crying tears that a homophobic, islamophobe like Crowder is being demonitized. The issue isn't Steven Crowder and whether he gets demonitized. THE ISSUE IS YOUTUBE'S DRACONIAN REACTIONS. It IS POSSIBLE
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to both stand up against homophobia AND stand up against YouTube's absurd overreaction punishing others. Michael--straight up...you're wrong and offensive in this particular situation.
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Jordan, you fumbled this one...I would think you would know better after how identity politics was used to sabotage your work at tyt, costing who knows how many lives? Google doesn't care about gays' feelings. This is about censorship, just like your experience was.
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Sorry---being against homophobia and harassment isn't "identity politics." That's a false equivalence. Steven Crowder has every right to be a bigot. But there's no guaranteed right to profit off of that. That is a completely different thing from YouTube's insane reaction.
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Letting a billion dollar company use demonetization is a way to force off most dissident content. And fighting homophobia and racism, etc. is the definition of identity politics...and there is nothing wrong with it unless it used to do things like cennsorship
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no--identity politics is USING ones identity to achieve political goals. The Vox reporter did not ask to be harassed by Steven Crowder. He did not create the situation.
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You don't even see this isn't about gay rights. It's about censorship. The fact people like news2share were taken off isn't corporate clumsiness, It's the point. Maza's handle is
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I don't agree that as progressives you look the other way from bigotry to stand by a blanket principle of no penalty ever for anything. Censorship is a major problem but I think it's a mistake to minimize hatred and bigotry and say let it go for fear of YouTube censoring others
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The answer is to FIGHT YOUTUBE on the indiscriminate censorship and overreaction toward other hosts and journalists in reaction to individual offenders like Crowder. Simply put--I just think you're wrong. And saying it's not about gay rights minimizes the very real homophobia
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& harassment being openly broadcasted by someone like Crowder--and targeting specific individuals. It doesn't matter what the Vox reporter's Twitter username is. IT'S NOT ABOUT THE VOX REPORTER. It's about homophobia...being against homophobia is not playing "identity politics"
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