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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.
Let's talk about how a lot of Incels and white nationalists need some serious psychotherapy. That and stop being gullible morons.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Jews are scheming to eliminate the white race? Aren't the Jews themselves... white? (My Jewish best friend is a Jerry Garcia look-alike who could easily pass for a redneck. He's even a bluegrass music fan!)
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Let's talk about how a lot of Incels and white nationalists need some serious psychotherapy.
Psychotherapy has a poor track record, The evidence that it is effective is ambiguous. It is least likely to work when the underlying social issues go unaddressed. The incels still aren't getting laid. The WNs still have to see brown people.
We are all nerds here, so we should be looking for technical solutions. For the incels, a good solution would be more realistic sexbots. For the WNs, we could make AR goggles that make everyone they see look white.
Facebook has proven time and time again that they will allow anything that targets whites, law enforcement, or conservatives and only have an interest in blocking "hate speech" if it's targeted at minorities or the left. This is hardly even newsworthy at this point, it's just their platform.
(Note to doubters: the people during the fall of Rome couldn't see it, either.)
Alternative Right.
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.
There are a lot of working class white men who are heroically working long hours for very low pay in many cases under management that treats them like crap - in a desperate, but mostly unsuccessful attempt, to provide comfortable secure lives for their wives and children.
Myself, I don't think it's wrong for working class men to want to provide decent lives for their families - or even for them to be angry when, despite their best heroic efforts, they are unable to do so. It is, in my opinion, shameful that in a technologically advanced country like the USA it's not possible for most people to work an honest 9-5 and support their families simply but comfortably.
But what is wrong is to blame Jews, or immigrants or foreigners. The rising inequality that is squeezing working-class white men and their wives and children so hard is fundamentally caused by policies championed by billionaires like Donald Trump and the Republican Party generally.
TL;DR Working-class white men should be angry but they should be angry at billionaires like Trump rather than Jews, or foreigners or immigrants.
The inherent bigoted hypocrisy in modern social justice.
Here's a few suggestions:
1. abolish affirmative action
2. stop measuring success of equal opportunity via equal outcome.
3. drop the racist and sexist propaganda pushed by major institutions. It's raising whole generations of adult children who are incapable of reason.
4. revamp education so that it focuses on enlightenment values instead of ideological conformity.
5. strongly enforce borders while allowing those with something to offer the country a chance at citizenship. Time to create an inverse brain drain.
Lets talk about how a lot of insecure/jealous lamers want their betters to pay for their sloth-driven indigence. Their utterly massive insecurity complex perfectly explains their pathological need to celebrate this mental illness as 'diversity', often to the point where they act no differently than the neo-nazis they claim to fight.
Rome fell for the same reason that Athens fell: it lost its ability to coordinate itself. Diversity was both a symptom and a factor in that decline. As Plato pointed out, unstable republics import foreigners in order to have allies for their tyrants, and this accelerates instability to crash.
Tell me all about the diverse republics in history that have done well by themselves and not crashed shortly after diversity was introduced. Yes, it takes them many centuries to reach The Bitter End, but in the meantime, they become abusive and dystopian places. Is that the future you want?
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