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  Joe Biden Scores Whopping 85 Percent Approval Among Those Who Watched Address to Congress

  by Disillusioned JW in

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  see the article called just in: joe biden scores whopping 85 percent approval among those who watched address to congress .

  i sure was impressed with it when i saw it..

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  Maybe youtube banned these right-wing channels because they became so popular?
  

  Being popular brings you under more scrutiny - but only for right-wing channels, apparently ...
  
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  Systemic Racism: What’s Your View? Is it As Pervasive As Some Suggest?

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  the president of the united states says we have to do something about this.

  many politicians and people agree that we are all affected by the scourge of systemic racism.

  what’s your view of this?

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  Racists are emboldened and are more open in acts of racism (e.g., spraypainting swastikas, attacking Asians on the street, throwing around hateful slurs) - interesting comment.

  There have been some examples of spraypainting swastikas and racial slurs that have turned out to have been done by black people, trying to make white supremacy a big issue.

  And re attacking Asians, which group of people are overrepresented in that?
  
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  Woke Oscars cringe

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  actors' acceptance speeches have often been a little dodgy - viewers don't care what political or social views actors may have, we typically appreciate actors acting well.. this year's oscars awards ceremony seems to be going above and beyond, however.. here's frances mcdormand's acceptance speech, in which she dedicates her victory to 'our wolf' and then howls like a bitch, lol.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-_be0awgwk.

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  LoveUniHateExams

  What you said sound correct but it doesn't make sense in the real world. If you want to go down that road, Hollywood will likely stop making films - all I'm asking for is for actors not to cram their acceptance speeches with political stuff.

  Most people agree - they don't want political/social messages rammed down their throat when their favourite actor wins an acting award for his acting.
  
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  Joe Biden Scores Whopping 85 Percent Approval Among Those Who Watched Address to Congress

  by Disillusioned JW in

  1. social
  2. current

  see the article called just in: joe biden scores whopping 85 percent approval among those who watched address to congress .

  i sure was impressed with it when i saw it..

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  LoveUniHateExams

  You can't make a general statement as if those channels weren't given a voice for years - they were, indeed, given a voice for years. And then youtube banned them. All right-wing, no seemingly left-wing channels.

  Maybe youtube banned these right-wing channels because they became so popular?
  
  
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  Systemic Racism: What’s Your View? Is it As Pervasive As Some Suggest?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the president of the united states says we have to do something about this.

  many politicians and people agree that we are all affected by the scourge of systemic racism.

  what’s your view of this?

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  LoveUniHateExams

  Systemic Racism - What's Your View? - it doesn't exist in 2021 in Western countries.

  Racism certainly exists, but it's kinda on life support.
  

  Grifters like Al Sharpton want to keep the corpse of racism alive. They've shamelessly profited for decades on the misery of other people.
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  Joe Biden Scores Whopping 85 Percent Approval Among Those Who Watched Address to Congress

  by Disillusioned JW in

  1. social
  2. current

  see the article called just in: joe biden scores whopping 85 percent approval among those who watched address to congress .

  i sure was impressed with it when i saw it..

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  LoveUniHateExams

  What changed? It became too hot at some point and the potential commercial impact on youtube meant that he got the chop - why doesn't YouTube ban left-wing channels that become too hot?
  

  Do you have an example? - er, no this isn't how honest debate works

  I'm wondering about youtube's pro-left, anti-right agenda, then you gave an example of a banned right-winger but claimed this was because of his channel becoming too hot. Then I asked why doesn't youtube ban left-wing channels that become too hot?

  Y'see, I'm asking this question to explore social media's apparent bias.

  If you want to answer that question, that would be fine.
  
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  Woke Oscars cringe

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. current

  actors' acceptance speeches have often been a little dodgy - viewers don't care what political or social views actors may have, we typically appreciate actors acting well.. this year's oscars awards ceremony seems to be going above and beyond, however.. here's frances mcdormand's acceptance speech, in which she dedicates her victory to 'our wolf' and then howls like a bitch, lol.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-_be0awgwk.

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  LoveUniHateExams

  For all the folks offended by "wokeness" - it's not a question about being offended by wokeness.

  Hollywood is about making good movies and entertaining people. Giving priority to current political opinions is ridiculous. Actors are obviously allowed their opinions and beliefs, like the rest of us. But using your acceptance speech to lecture the people who pay your wages (the viewers) is really dumb.

  If actors want to become involved in politics, let them leave acting and become politicians, rather than regurgitating trendy opinions gleaned from social media.

  It goes both ways, of course. I'm a right-winger and want immigration to be controlled and illegal immigrants deported. But if some right-wing actor said during his acceptance speech that he wanted illegal immigration stopped, I'd be like 'What. The. F**k?! This is a film awards not the Daily Politics - f**k off from the stage, you tosser.'
  
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  Joe Biden Scores Whopping 85 Percent Approval Among Those Who Watched Address to Congress

  by Disillusioned JW in

  1. social
  2. current

  see the article called just in: joe biden scores whopping 85 percent approval among those who watched address to congress .

  i sure was impressed with it when i saw it..

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  LoveUniHateExams

  What changed? It became too hot at some point and the potential commercial impact on youtube meant that he got the chop - why doesn't YouTube ban left-wing channels that become too hot?
  
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  Joe Biden Scores Whopping 85 Percent Approval Among Those Who Watched Address to Congress

  by Disillusioned JW in

  1. social
  2. current

  see the article called just in: joe biden scores whopping 85 percent approval among those who watched address to congress .

  i sure was impressed with it when i saw it..

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  LoveUniHateExams

  It is a good example but it is moving away from media bias - many sections of the media were calling for Trump to be investigated for inciting violence, but those same sections of media are silent about Maxine Waters's little speech. As I say, there seems to be a trend of treating left-wing and right-wing differently.

  Another interesting study might be to investigate YouTube channels that have been banned, what they have been banned for, and see if left-wing and right-wing youtubers are (approximately) equally represented.
  
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  Joe Biden Scores Whopping 85 Percent Approval Among Those Who Watched Address to Congress

  by Disillusioned JW in

  1. social
  2. current

  see the article called just in: joe biden scores whopping 85 percent approval among those who watched address to congress .

  i sure was impressed with it when i saw it..

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  LoveUniHateExams

  All news outlet have an agenda - yes, I said all media have bias.

  That will be a pointless exercise if you are only going to use a single data point to prove how commercial news outlet try to spin a story - ok, yes, good point. You would need to study reporting of multiple stories about different issues.

  Maybe a comparison would provide how left-wing and right-wing people are treated: in January, Trump tells his supporters to fight against the election decision and he's investigated for incitement to violence. Maxine Waters says people should 'take to the streets and become more confrontational' and isn't investigated for incitement to violence and/or interference in an (at the time) ongoing case.

  Social media, one branch of our media, certainly treats right-wing and left-wing people differently. I'm not sure about traditional media, perhaps more investigation would be needed.