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by TheGrim-888 2190 days ago
Trump threatens to use law enforcement to restore law and order in areas devastated by rioting, where there's literally political insurrection establishing an autonomous zone - Sites classify this as racist hate speech, it's censored, memory holed, and removed from the internet.

Trump asks the same sites to stop promoting violence, rioting, and the destruction of the country - Classified as hate speech and censorship, and must be memory holed and removed.

Quite the double standards. I can go on facebook, say all white people should die, all cops are evil, shoot the police, etc., and that's perfectly fine and removing it amounts to censorship. But heavens forbid Trump threatens to restore law and order, now THAT's crossing the line.

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I do tend to agree with your desire for law and order, but not at the cost of public safety. The police are arguably more of a threat to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness than protesters removing racist statues and protesting via nontraditional means.