It seems to be actually happening. After taking aim at hate groups and YouTube members for ‘hate speech’, the tech media giant finally pulled the plug on Louis Farrakhan. That might sound normal to some of you but Farrakhan’s anti-semitic hate speech has been widely overlooked by the politically correct police, until now.
Farrakhan heads the Nation of Islam, a group he has led since 1977 and that is based on a somewhat bizarre and fundamentally anti-white theology. Farrakhan is an antisemite who routinely accuses Jews of manipulating the U.S. government and controlling the levers of world power.
After announcing in 2019 that YouTube would remove videos and channels promoting white supremacy and other bigoted ideologies, it has finally decided to remove the Nation of Islam from its platform over a year later. According to a report by NewsBusters, On Oct. 2, the group’s YouTube channel was removed for hate speech. In particular, it was removed for its proliferation of conspiracy theories involving members of one of the platform’s protected categories.
The report goes on to point out that in 2017, Farrakhan called the Jewish people “the enemy of God,” according to the ADL, and has repeatedly referred to members of the Jewish community as “satanic.” In 2018, he compared the Jewish people to termites. “When they talk about Farrakhan, call me a hater, you know how they do – call me an anti-Semite. Stop it, I’m anti-termite!” Farrakhan said.
Even after making such an anti-Semitic comment, Farrakhan’s social media accounts all remained untouched.
Farrakhan blames Jews for the slave trade, plantation slavery, Jim Crow, sharecropping and general black oppression. Farrakhan’s tone grew more belligerent in June 2010, when he sent letters to several leaders of the Jewish community as well as the Southern Poverty Law Center demanding that they acknowledge the evils they have perpetrated and that they work to further Farrakhan’s goals. The letter ended with a threat to “ruin and destroy your power and influence here and throughout the world” if his terms were not met.
The video-sharing platform only now, in October, put restrictions on Farrakhan groups after months of pressure from pro-Jewish activists demanding his hateful rhetoric be removed.
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