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Credit Card Companies Have No Business Playing Second Amendment Censors

Via The American Thinker

Do we want to live in an America where credit card companies watch our buying habits and then block purchases for ideological reasons?

Not long ago, the left side of the American electorate would have shouted “hell no” the loudest.

Not anymore.

Today, many on the left are cheering on, even pushing censorship in social media and more, as long as the suppression of ideas protects their political goals. They even want big business to restrict gun sales, as they don’t see firearms as tools of freedom.

Just before Christmas, The New York Times ran an article titled “How Credit Cards Are Used to Finance Mass Shootings.” This followed an op-ed the NYT ran last spring calling for credit card companies to track and block some gun sales, such as stopping someone from buying a certain number of guns or from purchasing politically incorrect types of firearms.

About a month after the NYT op-ed, The Wall Street Journal reported that banks and credit card companies had begun “discussing” how they could pull off this idea from the left.

Read the entire article HERE.

Facebook Is Now Censoring Talk About Politics And Religion At Work

Via Zero Hedge

It’s not just social media users that are being censored, now its social media employees.

According to a new report by Business Insider, citing an internal company memo, Facebook is now telling its employees what they can, and can’t, talk about at work.

Business Insider reviewed an internal company memo where Facebook’s CTO claims to have put together “a set of ground rules for open and respectful communication at work, and a central moderation model.”

The memo states: “We’re keeping it simple with three main guidelines: Don’t insult, bully, or antagonize others. Don’t try to change someone’s politics or religion. Don’t break our rules about harassing speech and expression.”

Facebook uses Workplace, an app that allows chat, for internal communication. Employees use it for work related projects, but also occasionally for small talk. The app is targeted as the main area where these new rules will apply.

The memo continues: “These guidelines apply to all work communications including Workplace, email, chat, tasks, posters, whiteboards, chalkboards, and face-to-face. Since Workplace is where most of these discussions happen, we are investing engineering resources there.”

Read the entire article HERE.

Taxpayers helped finance research used by the American Psychological Association to label traditional masculinity harmful

The APA’s “First-Ever Guidelines for Practice with Men and Boys” received input from dozens of psychoanalysts who believe masculinity is a social construct, are passionate about social justice, and think there is a danger in a role model like John Wayne.

Several contributors to the guidelines have received federal funding from the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Education, totaling more than $4.4 million.

The guidelines not only suggest “traditional masculinity” limits the “psychological development” of men and harms their mental and physical health, but that it is “critical to acknowledge” gender as a “non-binary construct.”

“Male privilege tends to be invisible to men, yet they can become aware of it through a variety of means, such as education and personal experience,” according to the APA. “Indeed, awareness of privilege and the harmful impacts of beliefs and behaviors that maintain patriarchal power have been shown to reduce sexist attitudes in men and have been linked to participation in social justice activities.”

The guidelines reflect the beliefs of the psychoanalysts who crafted them.

Read the entire article HERE.

Professor Says “Some White People May Have To Die…” In The Pursuit Of Social Justice

Via Campus Reform

University of Georgia (UGA) teaching assistant wrote Wednesday on Facebook that “some white people may have to die for black communities to be made whole in this struggle to advance to freedom.” He added that to suggest otherwise is “ahistorical and dangerously naive.”

UGA philosophy TA Irami Osei-Frimpong made the comment during a conversation on the Overheard at UGA Facebook page. The comment has since been deleted. Osei-Frimpong claimed in May 2017 that Facebook suspended him for quoting from an article which detailed how Texas A&M professor Tommy Curry had said “in order to be equal, in order to be liberated, some white people may have to die.”

“Killing some white people isn’t genocide; it’s killing some white people,” the UGA TA explained in a Medium post. “We had to kill some white people to get out of slavery. Maybe if we’d killed more during the 20th century we still wouldn’t talk about racialized voter disenfranchisement and housing, education, and employment discrimination. This should not be controversial.”

Read the entire article HERE.

One-Third of Americans Like, Share, or Post on Social Media More Than 10 Times Per Day

Via Conservative Daily News

People most frequently post images on social media, followed by updates and videos. Facebook remains the top platform, but experts suggest social media marketers prepare for its influence to decline.

Thirty percent (30%) of social media users interact on social media at least 10 times per day by either liking, sharing, or posting content, according to a new survey from The Manifest, a business news and how-to website.

Social media is part of people’s everyday routines because it helps them build a community with others around the world.

Read the entire article HERE.

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