Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Trump Pushes Fake COVID Cure From Fringe Doctors, Banned by Facebook
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-pushes-fake-covid-cure-from-fringe-doctors-banned-by-facebook
At least one of the accounts
the president retweeted on Monday night was from a follower of QAnon,
the conspiracy theory that alleges a “deep state” cabal of pedophiles is
plotting against Trump.
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube scrub platforms of viral video making false coronavirus claims
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/28/tech/facebook-youtube-coronavirus/index.html
A
video featuring a group of doctors making false and dubious claims
related to the coronavirus was removed by Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube
after going viral online Monday.
The
video, published by the right-wing media outlet Breitbart News,
featured a group of people wearing white lab coats calling themselves
"America's Frontline Doctors" staging a press conference in front of the
US Supreme Court in Washington, DC.
President
Trump shared multiple versions of the video with his 84 million Twitter
followers Monday night despite the dubious claims running counter to
his administration's own public health experts. Spokespersons for the
White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Donald Trump says Dr. Fauci misled the public on hydroxychloroquine and shares a video of a doctor saying the drug can prevent the virus in Twitter spree
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8566907/Donald-Trump-goes-Twitter-binge-retweets-posts-praising-hydroxychloroquine.html
- President Donald Trump retweeted a slew of posts praising controversial drug hydroxychloroquine for treating COVID-19 on Monday night
- He shared a retweeted that slammed Dr. Anthony Fauci for 'misleading' the country by dismissing hydroxychloroquine, and supporting drug Remdesivir
- He shared video of Dr. Stella Immanuel's speech outside Capitol Hill on Friday where she claimed the anti-malaria drug is a 'cure' for the virus
- She slammed 'fake doctors' who doubt the efficacy of the drug and said to the public 'you don’t need a mask'
- Trump shared videos of her speech twice, and both were removed
Georgia Republican senator removes ad that made Jewish opponent’s nose bigger
https://www.timesofisrael.com/georgia-republican-senator-removes-ad-that-made-jewish-opponents-nose-bigger/
Republican Sen. David Perdue of Georgia has taken down a digital
campaign ad featuring a manipulated picture of his Democratic opponent
Jon Ossoff, who is Jewish, with an enlarged nose.
Before being removed, the Facebook ad
showed grainy pictures of Ossoff and Sen. Charles Schumer of New York,
who is also Jewish, above a banner reading “DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO BUY
GEORGIA! HELP DAVID PERDUE FIGHT BACK.”
A spokeswoman for Perdue said in a statement Monday that the image
has been removed from Facebook, calling it an “unintentional error” by
an outside vendor, without naming the vendor.
“Anybody who implies that this
was anything other than an inadvertent error is intentionally
misrepresenting Senator Perdue’s strong and consistent record of
standing firmly against anti-Semitism and all forms of hate,” the
spokeswoman said.
How Tom Cotton accidentally told an appalling truth
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/27/opinions/tom-cotton-slavery-comments-1619-project-bailey/index.html
It's a belief likely held by millions of White Americans and also by
a number of white historians. It's just that Cotton said it more
plainly and directly than most. It's that ability -- White Americans'
penchant for compartmentalizing and rationalizing when it comes to
issues of race -- that has made it possible for a president as inept and
racist as Donald Trump to have any chance of being re-elected.
How the 1619 Project slandered America
No one challenges the proposition that US history is bound up in a
history of repression and exploitation of minorities, from the slaughter
and dispossession of Native Americans to slavery and Jim Crow laws. But
to assert, on the basis of zero historical evidence, that its very
foundational motivation was the persecution of those minorities is a
conscious effort not to provoke academic debate but to inculcate the
entire country, its people and its institutions in a continuing crime
against humanity.
I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/06/1619-project-new-york-times-mistake-122248
But the
debates playing out now on social media and in op-eds between
supporters and detractors of the 1619 Project misrepresent both the
historical record and the historical profession. The United States was
not, in fact, founded to protect slavery—but the Times is right
that slavery was central to its story. And the argument among
historians, while real, is hardly black and white. Over the past
half-century, important foundational work on the history and legacy of
slavery has been done by a multiracial group of scholars who are
committed to a broad understanding of U.S. history—one that centers on
race without denying the roles of other influences or erasing the
contributions of white elites. An accurate understanding of our history
must present a comprehensive picture, and it’s by paying attention to
these scholars that we’ll get there.
Here is the complicated picture of the Revolutionary era that the New York Times
missed: White Southerners might have wanted to preserve slavery in
their territory, but white Northerners were much more conflicted, with
many opposing the ownership of enslaved people in the North even as they
continued to benefit from investments in the slave trade and slave
colonies. More importantly for Hannah-Jones’ argument, slavery in the
Colonies faced no immediate threat from Great Britain, so colonists
wouldn’t have needed to secede to protect it. It’s true that in 1772,
the famous Somerset case ended slavery in England and Wales, but it had
no impact on Britain’s Caribbean colonies, where the vast majority of
black people enslaved by the British labored and died, or in the North
American Colonies. It took 60 more years for the British government to
finally end slavery in its Caribbean colonies, and when it happened, it
was in part because a series of slave rebellions in the British
Caribbean in the early 19th century made protecting slavery there an
increasingly expensive proposition.
Tom Cotton describes slavery as a 'necessary evil' in bid to keep schools from teaching 1619 Project
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/27/politics/tom-cotton-slavery-necessary-evil-1619-project/index.html
Though the founding fathers were divided
on the issue of slavery, with some of them having owned slaves and
others being opposed to it, there doesn't appear to be a record of any of them arguing slavery in the US was a "necessary evil."
Texas law gives no simple answer in Garrett Foster killing at Austin protest
https://www.statesman.com/news/20200727/texas-law-gives-no-simple-answer-in-garrett-foster-killing-at-austin-protest
“It strikes me that in a state where there’s legal conceal carry and
open carry, it’s an interesting question how a jury — if it comes before
a jury — thinks about the question of when it’s reasonable to think
someone walking up to you with a gun in their hand is threatening you,”
she said.
She said she would be skeptical about drawing any conclusions about the lack of charges in the case thus far.
“The police haven’t forfeited any option,” she said.
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