As some of y’all know, I moderate the Quora group It’s Okay to be White. Trying to keep inferior posts to a minimum, and maintain some level of quality, is an uphill struggle. The group now has well over 30,000 followers.
One pet peeve of mine is when pro-Whites object to reparations “because nobody alive today was a slave or a slave-owner.” In response to one such post, I commented:
I approved this answer to make a point: None of us can be taken seriously when we don’t know what our opponents actually say. Frankie, do you actually believe that leftists want reparations for slaves who are alive today? The following is their position, in a nutshell:
- Slavery, and subsequent Jim Crow laws/redlining etc. set in motion a series of events, and circumstances, where blacks were disadvantaged. This continues to our own time.
- Reparations aren’t only for slavery, but also for other injustices, such as housing discrimination, mortgage discrimination, overpolicing etc.
There are plenty of good rebuttals to both. For example:
- If slavery/Jim Crow were the actual cause for today’s disparities, we would see the disparities diminishing as those institutions fade into the past. Instead, we see the OPPOSITE; since the Civil Rights Act, black crime, illegitimacy, poverty and academic failure have gotten WORSE, not better.
- If we’re going to look at such recent injustices toward blacks, then we must also look at injustices toward Whites. For example, how much in extra taxes have White people paid due to black criminality, disproportionate welfare and incarceration? How much have Whites lost due to their housing being devalued as a result of black incursions into White neighborhoods (and the accompanying crime)? How many Whites had their childhoods destroyed due to excessive black-on-White bullying and assaults? How many White families have been destroyed by black-on-White homicide and rape?
Let’s UNDERSTAND opposing views, and then offer intelligent responses, instead of regurgitating the same old tired talking points.
In less than an hour, I was informed that my comment was deleted for “hate-speech:”
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The reason I bring this up is that I think it’s a good example of how the censors will tolerate low-quality pro-white content (it makes us look bad), but remove high-quality content.
We see this same approach in how the media relates to toothless, tattooed skinheads versus Jared Taylor; it ignores Mr. Taylor, but will gladly put the skinhead on display for its gullible audience all day long.
Then again, maybe I’m flattering myself, and there are other reasons my comment was removed.
Edit: My post was restored on appeal.
Good observation! I found out about this in a discussion online when the censors kicked out about a third of my posts, namely those that would give sources and main arguments while leaving the lesser comments standing. They then had the audacity to demand sources and rebuttals while continuously deleting them and subsequently calling me a liar for not providing them. I first thought it was my bad for giving proper links that might not be tolerated, gave them slightly off, then just as a description, then tried to post more mainstream sources in all ways until it finally clicked as to what they were doing. It’s a really smart way to censor and I wonder if it has been done in other areas as well. My mother loves to watch European versions of “America’s got talent” and frequently comments on the beautiful and smart and so much more talented mixed-race performers that I suspected they weeded out the good ones that would hinder their agenda before the show even started.