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by anythingbot 3311 days ago
How do people feel about a Zuckerberg presidency? As president, is Zuckerberg going to "fight the hate" in America? Is Bloomberg asking Zuckerberg to outline such an agenda?

> During a daylong brainstorming session, the group came up with a meme that subtly mocks people who blame minorities for the mundane frustrations of daily life, such as packed subway cars.

It seems that Bloomberg approves of hate speech in the form of mockery when it is directed at "people who blame minorities". It sounds like Bloomberg wants Zuckerberg to channel hate speech, not stamp it out.

What do you think? Is Zuckerberg going to take action against Baldauf for launching a hate campaign?

I doubt it.

Mockery is clearly a form of hatred, and Bloomberg wants Zuckerberg to permit this form of hatred while claiming to advocate a policy of retaliation against hate speech.

This is very misleading.

> Their mission was to come up with a social media campaign that might make Germans less susceptible to the wave of fake news and right-wing propaganda scapegoating Europe’s growing population of immigrants and refugees.

It appears that this is little more than an attempt to subvert German nationalism and German ethnic identity.

> you can hate people as long as you hate people I hate

Is it any wonder that two - Bloomberg and Zuckerberg - find common cause in directing hatred toward ethnic Germans?

Can you think of any reason why this might be?

Well I can: the holocaust. I think these two want to create a culture of hatred directed at ethnic Germans, all while claiming to be against hatred in principle.

What do you think? Is this kind of misrepresentation acceptable? Or do you find it as repugnant as I do?

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I wish HN would ban comments like the parent. It's such an old tactic for spreading hate, I don't need to describe it. It adds nothing to HN - the pseudo-rational is just old propaganda - and is in fact a great detriment. I can speak only for myself, but please take your hate elsewhere.
Out of curiosity, do you believe mockery is a form of hatred?
Yeah I get this feeling too, though I'm not sure it's motivated by the Holocaust (has Zuckerman made a big deal of being Jewish?). At least not directly. So many of my left leaning friends share these same ideas and rhetoric, even if they're against Israel.

Look at all the backlash AfD got for proposing benefits to families having children ... if they'd been citizens for at least 5 years. Things are very one sided, and even questioning that gets you labeled all sorts of things.

A FB presidency sounds extremely dystopian. Fortunately Zuck seems really unlikeable, and hopefully will not overcome that. OTOH FB is so powerful, that might not matter as much as it used to.

Not sure what can be done. Perhaps if Trump is ineffective enough Americans will get a real right wing leader?

A FB presidency? Americans will go wild. They'll be all

> sign me up, put the chains on and lock me in