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WHAT JUST HAPPENED?

• Facebook has banned praise, support and representation of white nationalism and white separatism on its platforms. This move had a qualified approval from the recent Christchurch mosque shooting.
• Further, Facebook has stated that it will direct users who post or search content connected to these ideologies to an organization that helps people leave hate groups.

NOTES

• Social Media platforms were under pressure and criticisms that they have failed to confront extremism.
• Social Media was under the spotlight after a suspected white supremacist broadcasted live footage of his attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand.

JACINDA ARDERN, NEW ZEALAND’S PRIME MINISTER

WHITE SEPARATISM

• White separatism is a separatist political and social movement that seeks the separation of white people from people of other races and ethnicities, the establishment of a white ethnostate by removing nonwhites from existing communities or by forming new communities elsewhere

CANADA’S FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER

• White supremacism and Islamophobia are among “the gravest threats” facing the world, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland told the United Nations

RISE OF NEO-NAZISM

• Neo-Nazism consists of post-World War II militant social or political movements seeking to revive and implement the ideology of Nazism.

• Anti-Slavic sentiment

ANTI-SLAVIC SENTIMENT

• Anti-Slavism reached its highest peak during World War II, when Nazi Germany declared Slavs, especially neighboring Poles to be subhuman and planned to exterminate the majority of Slavic people
• So White-Nationalism can not only divide the world, it can also divide European countries

 WHAT FUELS WHITE SUPREMIST

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