Rep. Dan Crenshaw absolutely ripped into a Google rep. over a report that mainstream conservatives were being labeled as Nazis in a leaked Google report.
And he did it without screaming like idiot, as is so popular in politics these days:
.@RepDanCrenshaw goes off on Google rep over recent leaked emails calling @benshapiro @jordanbpeterson and @DennisPrager "Nazis using the dogwhistles":
— Nate Madden (@NateOnTheHill) June 26, 2019
"What kind of education do people at Google have?...Three of three of these people had family members killed in the Holocaust." pic.twitter.com/2dxJHeYUCb
Crenshaw gets down to the meat of the matter – just how can we define “hate speech” so that they’re not infringing on mainstream political opinion? The Googly guy doesn’t have very good of an answer.
Here’s some of his argument:
“When you call somebody a Nazi, you can make the argument that you’re inciting violence and here’s how: As a country, we all agree that Nazis are bad. We actually invaded an entire continent to defeat the Nazis. It’s normal to say Hashtag punch a Nazi because there’s this common thread among those in this country that they’re bad and that they’re evil and that they should be destroyed.
“So when you’re operating off of that premise and it’s frankly, it’s a good premise to operate on, well, what you’re implying then is that it’s okay to use violence against them. When you label them, when one of the most powerful social media companies in the world labels people as Nazis, you could make the argument that’s inciting violence. What you’re doing is wholly irresponsible.”
Rep. Dan Crenshaw continues to impress as a rational and reasonable but passionate defender of conservatives and our ideas.
Read the previous report posted here.