Re: [Trisquel-users] EU: All your internet are belong to us

[dguthrie]

I think you are banking that I didn't watch your video. I wish I didn't  
because it is a load of utter crap, but there we have it. I will tell you why  
it qualifies as hate speech.
He starts with "The Zionist media". This is to feed into his racist  
narratives of his other videos, that there is a conspiracy be Jews to take  
over the world. It was the same narrative peddled by the Nazis, and David  
Duke's other Holocaust-denying associates, such as the Ku Klux Klan, who are  
very fond of using Nazi imagery.
"The reason why the Zionists who have so much ungodly influence in the  
American media, and they've got the politicians in their back pockets, and  
they've got the big banks and the big money who controls the politicians...  
Goldman Sachs, they control the Federal Reserve, they control the World  
Bank..."
This feeds into the narrative that the Jews rule the world, are trying too,  
or are extremely close to doing so. It is simply not true. He keeps  
mentioning the "pernicious Zionist influence". It is just a load of rubbish.  
It is convenient for people like Duke to use the injustice of the Israeli  
occupation to peddle their conspiracy about Jews, but they don't, for  
instance, criticise the mass-incarceration of black people, which they  
support because they are a bunch of white supremacists, and justify violence  
and murder of these people in the past and present based on religious  
references and pseudo-scientific doctrines, the same that justified slavery  
and imperialism. Examining the video, it becomes clear that Duke probably  
doesn't care all that much about these people dying, or at least has  
convinced himself of it because he wants to justify his conspiracies about  
"Zionists". Hate speech is justification of violence and stigma. Duke wants  
to create stigma and anti-Semitism, so this qualifies as hate speech. It is  
disguised so that at first it might seem justified, but anyone watching the  
whole video can probably tell that the conclusion of the video is pretty  
outrageous and designed to forment tensions. It is thus hate speech, and I am  
pretty surprised it is still available.
It just goes to show that the ferociously-authoritarian EU is really not  
doing its job, is it?
Note, there are legitimate criticisms of Israel. It is just that this is used  
as part of his hate speech. The irony is that people like Duke say that it is  
not anti-Semetic to criticise Israel, when he is deliberately confusing the  
two issues of the State of Israel and Jewish people to justify his  
anti-Semitism.