Facebook ... The Hypocritical Arrogance of Big Business

I made a comment on Facebook that - "The Saudis are murderous swines".
For that Facebook rightly imposed a sanction, correctly stating that the comment constituted "hate speech" and banned me for a period of 48 hours.

After serving the ban I posted an unreserved apology to the "good people of Saudi"  and stated that I accepted that the comment, in its blanket format, constituted hate speech.

However I added that it was the Saudi regime that I had in mind when I posted the comment as this regime was, inter alia, responsible for -
persecution of women;
bombing children; and
the diabolical murder of a journalist ...
 who was butchered with his body being bagged and disposed off  to an unknown locality which was horrendous for his family given, in particular, their religious imperatives as regards burial.

I also added that my comment had been unfair to pigs as this breed had never indulged in such conduct.

For this apology Facebook banned me for Seven (7) days without stipulating in what way my apology had violated its Community Standards.
I submitted a detailed query pointing out the facts and merits herein. The ban was maintained without any explanatory response.

Not ONE Community Standard had been violated by my apology. !!!!

The inescapable assumption is that Zuckerberg & Co took exception to my accusatorial statement about the Saudi regime as augmented by the accompanying image, shown above herein.

This reaction by Zuckerberg & Co. is mind boggling in view of the fact  that no reasonable person would take exception to my apology or the accompanying image.
There is nothing graphically disturbing about the image.
The statements made about the Saudi regime are matters of fact, widely reported on and supported by innumerable international agencies of repute.

I should mention that on occasion I have reported content to Facebook that posited current "Whites" in the Southern African region, as greedy racist bigots, on account of the conduct of their ancestors.
Facebook has always responded by thanking me but opining that these blanket condemnations and labeling  of White humans, who are not responsible for the conduct of their ancestors, was NOT a violation of Community Standards !!!???

The inescapable inference must be that Zuckerberg & Co have an inhouse policy sensitivity about anything being posted that posits the Saudi regime in a bad light, even if 100% true ...
while it publicly takes an opposite stance.
There can be no other inference as the only persons who could be offended by my apology are members of that regime.
Hypocrisy is all too apparent.

Whichever way one assesses this saga it is clear that there is an arrogance underpinning Facebook's reaction, particularly the complete absence of any explanation for the seven (7) day ban.
It is the arrogance of Big Business.
Since Facebook has billions of subscribers it does not care about treating one subscriber with arbitrary summary contempt.

Robert Gabriel Mugabe … and Whites … especially American Whites

Mugabe was educated by Whites … very, very good Whites … Roman Catholic Priests of the Jesuit Order. In the result he was exceptionally well educated and later amassed more Degrees than a thermometer.

In his early adult life, Mugabe was a great voice of truth, reason and justice. This carried through to the first 3 years as President of Zimbabwe, a country taking its first steps as a country coming out of systemic oppression and a bloody war.  His was a voice of peace and reconciliation as a new united nation.
Symptomatic of his operational mode and culture was that he appointed General Peter Walls, who had served the Rhodesian Government as Commander of the anti-liberation forces, as the country’s first Army Commander.

All this was to change once he was complicit in the Ndebele Genocide, known as Gukurahundi.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/19/mugabe-zimbabwe-gukurahundi-massacre-matabeleland From that point Zimbabwe became a de facto military State, with Mugabe its tyrannical leader, until his demise on account of the very monster he had husbanded.

He would routinely seek to justify his tyranny with strident rhetoric.
This included him scolding Whites that they should not pontificate and lecture Africans (Blacks) as regards codes of behavior and how to rule.
He charged Whites with being hypocritical. In his indictment they had no right to tell Blacks how to behave as they were worse.
Was he right … was he right wholly or in part?  That is the question?

By Whites we mean, and he meant, the general group of Caucasians that comprise what is referred to as the “Western or Free World”.
They are the group that achieved advancement, as members of the human race, to a level where they more-or-less overran the whole planet, including colonizing and subjugating Africans.
Upon abandoning the oppression and subjugation of Africans, these members of the “Free world”, the “Western World”, have routinely insisted, pleaded, begged, advised, lectured … African leaders to emulate their operational mode, culture and conduct in order to embed “sacred” principles of democracy.

These pleas, lectures and advice from White Western leaders have largely fallen on deaf African ears, as Africa continues to present as a litany of failure … with coups … famine … human rights abuse … and even genocide being something of routine occurrence in Africa.

So was Mugabe right? Was he right in contending that Whites are just as bad … or even worse??
We will know the answer to this in 2020 when Americans vote in their Presidential elections.

a)       You see America has Whites as its dominant group. Those Whites are made up of a huge representation of the various Caucasian groups that comprise “Whites” since it is indeed a
nation of Immigrants” … White immigrants.  

b)      It is the country that has emerged as the most advanced, most powerful and most influential and dominant.

c)       Given the above, it has also presented as the “Leader of The Free World”.

d)      Now it is challenged in a very, very fundamental way, that can be usefully dubbed “Trumpism” ... of which such conduct is pretty typical

e)      Trumpism is where –

i)                    The President presents as a criminal sexual deviant or pervert and this does not matter.

ii)                   Where the President is the biggest recorded liar in history and it does not matter.

iii)                 Where the President rebukes, condemns and repudiates all of America’s intelligence agencies and this does not matter with this type of support now fairly routine. 

iv)                 Where the President demands, expects and wallows in personal aggrandizement and this is accepted as a norm.

v)                   Where the President considers himself as above the law and unaccountable and this is the norm.

vi)                 Where the President is in a love fest with the principle megalomaniacs on the planet like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jon Un, Rodrigo Duterte, Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil El-Sisi, Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-treacherous-ties-to-a-murderous-prince… and skunks like Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage … and members of the bigoted Alt-Right groups … and this is accepted.

vii)               Where the President openly equates the actions of bigoted Neo-Nazis with those in opposition and this is accepted.

viii)              Where the President openly indulges in a pernicious bigoted racist attack on four (4) Congresswomen, demanding that they leave the country, and this is tolerated ... with Republican support for him rising as a result of his racism.

ix)               Where a President tears up nearly all international agreements and embarks on bully-boy “America-First” operational mode and culture.

x)         Where the President now threatens a whistle-blower, whose actions are actually protected by law, and posits that citizen as guilty of treason, punishable by execution … and this is accepted.
xi)       And as regards the way the Dotard (Trump) speaks.  

xii)      Where the President routinely scapegoats "migrants: as being a terrible threat to America while doing absolutely nothing about the reality that over 100,000 Americans are killed, maimed, robbed and raped at gunpoint every year by other Americans.

xiii)     Trump/s operational mode and culture has so many attributes of fascism and/or that of a tinpot dictator.
         

f)       And what we see is ---

      Millions of Whites, referenced as “Trump’s Base”, enthusiastically supporting this President in all the above listed abrogation, repudiation and trampling on America’s professed values and behavioral codes.

g)      And what we see is ---

       Most members of the Republican Party, especially its leaders, acquiescing, conniving, colluding and actually supporting this dangerous buffoon of a President in his actions and shenanigans.
Good example.

Conclusion
The Great US of A is in its most disgraceful period since the era of slavery … and … millions of Whites don’t care … and actually support this heinous state of national affairs.
Republican leaders and followers don’t care that that the Party of Lincoln and Reagan has been hijacked by Trumpism.

So, on the hard evidence to-date, it has to be conceded, on an objective test, that Robert Gabriel Mugabe may well have been right about Whites.

His stance will be DISPROVED OR CONFIRMED in 2020 when America’s Whites vote in the Presidential election.
Then we will know.
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Notes:-
The pic includes Jim Jordan ...
and Kellyanne Conway on "alternative facts" ...
Sarah Huckabee Sanders ...
with Lindsey Graham presenting as the leading now typical Republican leader, spineless and hypocritical to the core.