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Facebook Allowed Advertisers To Target Users Interested in 'White Genocide' (theintercept.com)
Multiple readers have shared a report: Apparently fueled by anti-Semitism and the bogus narrative that outside forces are scheming to exterminate the white race, Robert Bowers murdered 11 Jewish congregants as they gathered inside their Pittsburgh synagogue, federal prosecutors allege. But despite long-running international efforts to debunk the idea of a "white genocide," Facebook was still selling advertisers the ability to market to those with an interest in that myth just days after the bloodshed. Earlier this week, The Intercept was able to select "white genocide conspiracy theory" as a pre-defined "detailed targeting" criterion on the social network to promote two articles to an interest group that Facebook pegged at 168,000 users large and defined as "people who have expressed an interest or like pages related to White genocide conspiracy theory." The paid promotion was approved by Facebook's advertising wing.
After we contacted the company for comment, Facebook promptly deleted the targeting category, apologized, and said it should have never existed in the first place. Our reporting technique was the same as one used by the investigative news outlet ProPublica to report, just over one year ago, that in addition to soccer dads and Arianna Grande fans, "the world's largest social network enabled advertisers to direct their pitches to the news feeds of almost 2,300 people who expressed interest in the topics of 'Jew hater,' 'How to burn jews,' or, 'History of "why jews ruin the world."" The report exposed how little Facebook was doing to vet marketers, who pay the company to leverage personal information and inclinations in order to gain users' attention -- and who provide the foundation for its entire business model.
After we contacted the company for comment, Facebook promptly deleted the targeting category, apologized, and said it should have never existed in the first place. Our reporting technique was the same as one used by the investigative news outlet ProPublica to report, just over one year ago, that in addition to soccer dads and Arianna Grande fans, "the world's largest social network enabled advertisers to direct their pitches to the news feeds of almost 2,300 people who expressed interest in the topics of 'Jew hater,' 'How to burn jews,' or, 'History of "why jews ruin the world."" The report exposed how little Facebook was doing to vet marketers, who pay the company to leverage personal information and inclinations in order to gain users' attention -- and who provide the foundation for its entire business model.
The people that believe these kinds of things aren't the most logical/rational people.
Jews aren't a singular race, and haven't been ever.
The problem is myopic view that European Jews are the only "real" Jews.
Ignorance isn't an excuse any more, now you know.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
You'd think pale skin would be a much bigger draw in the dating market, wouldn't you?
It is. OK cupid has done a bunch of studies on this over the years. Whites consistently come out on top, and blacks consistently scrape the bottom, with black women scoring even worse than black men. Asian men also get screwed over, while Asian women do quite well.
https://theblog.okcupid.com/ra...
Of course the offline dating market may not be quite the same as the online one ... feel free to conduct your own study and test that hypothesis.
The answer to your question is "no". Most Jewish people even ashkenazi do not identity as white. Pew research link
If you're a Nazi, then no, they're not, because "white" in this case means more than the color of your skin. Also despite the hyperbolic name, "White genocide" apparently is the White Supremacists' term for interracial sex. The logic being that if all white people have sex exclusively with non-white people, then nobody will be white any more.
Yes, it's really that stupid.
Yes, quite a few liberals have been trapped by it, because they've said things like "Yeah, I'm in favor of white genocide!" and promptly been banned from Twitter because Twitter's abuse team isn't as "in" on White Supremacist lingo as lefties who keep being subjected to it and who subsequently look up what it means.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
According to the same site under "% of Jews who identify as" about 90% identify as white.
True. It's interesting that Jews owned most ships in the Atlantic slave trade, and the Islamic slave trade dwarfed it, until white Christians forcefully put an end to all of it. And yet, who gets the bad rap for it now?
(Captcha: slaver. How fitting.)