Sunday, January 17, 2021

Campus Reform | Twitter bans Trump over risk of violence, but these leftist profs get a pass

Campus Reform | Twitter bans Trump over risk of violence, but these leftist profs get a pass
"In one of the latest crackdowns from Big Tech, President Donald Trump has been permanently banned from Twitter, and Parler has been cut off by Amazon Web Services, Apple and Google. 
Tech companies have justified the censorship as the necessary course of action for Trump, his supporters, and conservatives due to the “risk of further incitement of violence.”
But, for years, Campus Reform has reported on leftist professors who have explicitly sent ill wishes to conservatives and Trump supporters and who have justified violence as a means of silencing those with whom they disagree.
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In October, University of Virginia Instructor David Walsh tweeted that Americans need to do more than protest if the election “worst-case scenario” happens. 
“They need to actively try to topple the government,” the tweet read. The instructor who teaches the course "Hateinnany: Fascism, Antifascism, and the Global Far Right” had also previously tweeted that Democrats will have to utilize “postwar German practice of superficial de-Nazification” upon a Joe Biden win.
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