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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Replying to @JordanChariton
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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and by the way...Crowder IS NOT CENSORED. He is still on YouTube free to say the same bigoted stuff. He just is not being allowed to PROFIT from it. Those are two different things.
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If you deny monetization, you are pushing all most all independent content off the net that doesn't have corporate sponsorship. If you can't make a living at it, you can't really put the time into it to make it worthwhile.
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WE AGREE ON THIS POINT. That's why I have said the problem IS NOT demonitizing someone like Crowder for bigotry and harrassment (he should be). It's YouTube then using it as an excuse to target others. The fight must be against YOUTUBE FOR DOING THAT...not to say
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"don't punish a bigot and harasser because it might make YouTube lash out at others." You can be 1) For penalty for bigots as far as taking away their right to profit off of bigotry 2) Fight YouTube for censoring others indiscriminately it's not complicated!
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