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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.
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- 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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