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Facebook Removes Declaration of Independence Excerpt for ‘Hate Speech'
https://www.breitbart.com/ ^ | 4 Jul 2018 | Charles Nash

Posted on 07/04/2018 9:35:22 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK

Facebook removed an excerpt from the U.S. Declaration of Independence, claiming the text violated the social network’s policies on “hate speech.” The Liberty County Vindicator had been uploading the Declaration of Independence in parts to their Facebook page, only for the tenth part to be removed by the social network.

Though the newspaper is unsure why the text was removed, they presumed it was due to the Declaration of Independence’s use of the term “merciless Indian Savages.”

Following complaints, Facebook reinstated the post, declaring in an email, “It looks like we made a mistake and removed something you posted on Facebook that didn’t go against our Community Standards. We want to apologize and let you know that we’ve restored your content and removed any blocks on your account related to this incorrect action.”

Facebook also recently shut down a support group for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, claiming the page violated their “community guidelines.”

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The text was as follows:

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

1 posted on 07/04/2018 9:35:22 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Reading that makes me hate the UK all over again.


2 posted on 07/04/2018 9:40:21 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

It’s not the UK, it’s the lizard rulers that feed off of us.


3 posted on 07/04/2018 9:45:50 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

They ban thing at the drop of a hat.


4 posted on 07/04/2018 9:47:25 PM PDT by FreeperCell
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

In light of the revelations of the past few months, everyone (without exception) who continues to be a Fakebook user belongs on the traitorous-enemies list for priority dirt naps when the SHTF...


5 posted on 07/04/2018 9:47:39 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: SuperLuminal

I think Fakebook peaked out last year. I would predict a 10-percent quitting trend each year for the next five years, and they end up being bought by someone else by 2025.


6 posted on 07/04/2018 10:31:52 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
"(M)erciless Indian Savages"

Sounds like the Redskins have a great prospect for a new team name.

7 posted on 07/04/2018 10:48:13 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Why is anyone still using this Gestapo wet dream?


8 posted on 07/04/2018 10:51:43 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Setting a new standard for PC ignorance.


9 posted on 07/04/2018 10:57:22 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: SuperLuminal

Nah. Some use it as an easy way to keep up with friends and family. Some others of us use it to keep track of the leftscum. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer kind of thing. Lol.


10 posted on 07/04/2018 11:15:44 PM PDT by piytar (If it was not for double standards, the Democrats and the left would have NO standards.)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Most American Indians would probably enjoy the phrase “merciless Indian Savages” and refer to one another with that language for jest.


11 posted on 07/04/2018 11:42:36 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (I told you so)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

It was an accurate description of what they had been dealing with. Before us they were savages to each other. they like to say they all got along but they sure as hell did not and their own histories remember it.


12 posted on 07/05/2018 12:12:56 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

So Facebook is now saying the Indians ARE merciless savages? They’re racists!


13 posted on 07/05/2018 2:09:23 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

This is fascinating info.

I did not know “merciless Indian savages” was in the Declaration of Independence.

OK, time to have fun with the lefties—ask them if “merciless Indian savages” is hate speech and should be banned in public places?

Then ask them if the Declaration of Independence is “hate speech” and should be banned in public places.

Then let them in on the little secret and watch the smoke come out of their ears as they whine:

“That does not compute. That does not compute. That does not compute.” ;-)


14 posted on 07/05/2018 3:56:55 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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"Then ask them if the Declaration of Independence is “hate speech” and should be banned in public places."

Many leftist prongs would have no problem banning the DOI. To them it's a fascist, white, patriarchal, theocratic manifesto.

15 posted on 07/05/2018 4:03:12 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

What words!

We watched 1776 this week and, as always, we were amused by the scene in which the delegates fight over the document, managing to take out bits and pieces of it for trivial and devastating reasons. But Facebook is no Edward Rutledge!


16 posted on 07/05/2018 4:59:50 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

If you didn’t know “merciless Indian Savages” was contained in the Declaration, you need to read the document. We all do.

Every Independence Day, I ask friends and acquaintances to sit down and actually read the Declaration of Independence, in its entirety. It doesn’t take long and it is truly eye-opening.

The Founders really dropped a nuke on King George III by submitting this inflammatory document and one can easily imagine His Majesty’s Royal Head exploding at the incredible cheek shown by his own subjects. One can also see how every Signer of the Declaration also signed, knowingly, his own death warrant at the same time.


17 posted on 07/05/2018 5:35:16 AM PDT by DNME (The only solution to a BAD guy with a gun is a GOOD guy with a gun. Period.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

My great... grandparents were killed by the “merciless savages” and their house was set on fire. The daughters hid under the trundle bed during the murders and escaped the burning house.


18 posted on 07/05/2018 6:35:17 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: UnwashedPeasant

I’ve been known to show a little mercy here or there but yeah, pretty much apply my savagery in a merciless manner.


19 posted on 07/05/2018 11:52:01 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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