Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/07/31/former-klan-grand-wizard-david.html
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Shorter Twitter: hatemongering is OK, but we draw the line at spreading bad health advice that affects white people.
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This season of Slate’s Slow Burn podcast is all about David Duke’s rise in the '80s and '90s and why we should continue to consider him a dangerous force in American politics:
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The big story a while back should have been “David Duke Allowed to be On Twitter.”
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I bet Duke regrets making throwing away his long, respectable career for this very recent turn toward white supremacy and conspiracy-mongering. You can’t slip this stuff by Twitter, that’s for sure.
I wonder how many of the CancelCulture hysterics are going to have the courage of their convictions and come out with op-eds decrying this ban? How many of the signatories of the Harper’s letter are going to tweet their outrage? When can we expect the John Kass column? (that last one is a deep cut for the Chicago folks)
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What does it say about Twitter that this only happened now?
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“and even joined the Republican Party“
Edit: sheesh…just realized my go-to Swedish Chef’s kiss image is making the “ok” sign coopted by the Proud Boys!
So here we go instead!
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over-shadowed by bigger story " Donald Trump Allowed to be On Twitter"
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David Bowie, the Thin White Duke = cool.
David Duke = totally uncool.
Details matter here, folks… 
(There is something wrong with the world that the artist is dead, and the hatemongering racist is still alive…)
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Great, can we have him banned from planet Earth, too?
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I wish we had a Phantom Zone for reals to banish people like Duke.
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Why is this jack-hole even a thing any more?
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Too fucking little, too fucking late.
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Nothing new.
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Love that this dingus uses “Dr” in his handle when his PhD was received by a diploma mill in the Ukraine.
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He’s working on his back up plan.
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This is like if I woke up to the news that Margaret Thatcher died today. I’d be like, “Wait… What? Now? I could have sworn this was true a long time ago…”
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I think pretty much that it only recently came to be seen as something that could impact their bottom line…
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