Cancel Culture

A series of X posts shared in mid-January claimed that YouTube is trying to censor medical information shared by Dr. Drew, a board certified internist and addiction medical specialist, best known for his expert work in media.

YouTube is accused of removing two of Dr. Drew’s videos for allegedly spreading “medical misinformation.” The videos featured interviews with an MD and a lawyer. In one of the videos, “Dr. Kelly Victory shares her professional opinion about young people who were injured by mRNA side effects, saying the ‘vast majority of the people who have been injured are young, healthy people who were under the age of 50 who had fundamentally zero risk from COVID itself. They all got COVID. 98% of the population has documentation they’ve had COVID. These are people who would have been fine if they were just left alone.’”

Both Dr. Drew and Dr. Victory are board-certified and have practiced medicine for decades. “It is not medical misinformation for a licensed doctor to provide an opinion on a broadcast,” Dr. Drew wrote in the post.

The Second “Violation”

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Dr. Drew noted that YouTube did not censor a video of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow telling her viewers that, “we know that the vaccines work well enough that the virus stops with every vaccinated person. A vaccinated person gets exposed to the virus, the virus does not infect them. The virus cannot then use that person to go anywhere else. It cannot use a vaccinated person as a host to get more people,” even though this is untrue. According to the National Institute of Health (NIH), the certain vaccines, at best, showed a “reduced risk of SARS-CoV2-2-transmission.”

‘Reeducation Training’

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This is not the first time YouTube has attempted to censor Dr. Drew’s accounts. In the past, his producers were able to discuss the matter with representatives from the company, according to a follow-up X post.

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Dr. Drew concluded by stating that YouTube is “free to stay on the wrong side of history.” Both episodes are still readily available on X and he is refusing to delete them “to appease Google’s unqualified, unlicensed, untrained, unidentified censors.”

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MSNBC broadcasted Joy Reid’s nonsense theories this week regarding the California wildfires, which she suggested were part of an agenda by “right-wing” leaders to take over the state.

That’s right, Reid doesn’t appear to be aware, or care, that these fires where a result of abysmal Democrat leadership.

Reid began with fair points about vulture capitalists circling to buy up ravaged properties for pennies on the dollar.

“The vulture capitalists are already circling, hoping to snap up the burned-up properties for pennies on the dollar, so they can hedge fund them,” Reid said.

If she had stopped there, it would’ve been fine. But she didn’t.

“But the worst part,” Reid said, adding “other than the fires themselves, has been the lies.”

“Though if there is one thing the billionaire right is, they are consistent,” said Reid.

“They want California, America’s biggest state economy,” Reid continued.

“Because if they can take California and retrofit it with their ugly, right-wing policies, the way they’ve ruined Florida and Texas, and every other red state where poverty rates are high and education is warped, and non-white immigrants, pregnant women, victimized girls, and LGTBQ folks live in fear, then the fight for permanent control of America is basically over.”

“They can drill and frack California until the fires this past week pale in comparison.”

“They can rip out all the forests and hand over the land to developers, Florida-style.

“They can drive out the brown people, and the black and Asian people, or just sink them into the same apartheid they’ve created in Texas, and they will control enough electoral votes if they control California to never have to worry about another presidential election.”

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We couldn’t have expected Reid to leave her rant about BlackRock-like entities, which would got many of us agreeing with her; but she had to ruin it.

What exactly are her comments about Texas and Florida ruining things?

These so-called “ruined” red states are bringing in the most Americans fleeing blue states.

“Nearly 612,000” people moved to Texas, while “almost 637,000 residents” moved to Florida between 2022 to 2023, according to census data.

Again, Reid is wrong on that one.

What does she mean about “permanent control” from Conservatives? Oh, probably the fact the majority of Americans do not want full-blown socialism.

Again, Reid’s fear-mongering is based on zero evidence, and MSNBC allowed it to be broadcast.

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Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has called on his followers to stop donating to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind Wikipedia, citing concerns over the organization’s significant budget allocation to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

“Stop donating to Wokepedia until they restore balance to their editing authority,” Musk wrote Tuesday on X, the social media platform where he has nearly 210 million followers.

Musk’s comment came in response to a post by the right-leaning commentator “Libs of TikTok,” who highlighted a pie chart showing that 29% of Wikipedia’s $177 million 2023-24 budget is allocated to “equity” and “safety & inclusion.”

According to Wikimedia Foundation’s publicly available financial documents, $51.7 million has been set aside for these purposes.

Specifically, 17.6% of the budget ($31.2 million) is directed toward equity initiatives, while 11.6% ($20.5 million) is dedicated to safety and inclusion.

The largest share of the budget—48.7% ($86.1 million)—is allocated to infrastructure, followed by 22.2% ($39.2 million) for effectiveness measures.

The foundation stated, “Supporting equity represents the second largest part of our programmatic work, with grants and Movement support representing the majority of the budget within the equity goal.”

DEI initiatives, aimed at fostering diversity and inclusion in workplaces, have faced criticism from conservatives, who argue that such policies can lead to reverse discrimination and a shift away from merit-based systems.

The debate over DEI has intensified since corporate America widely adopted these practices following the 2020 death of George Floyd.

However, recent months have seen a reversal of these policies in some companies under pressure from public campaigns led by right-leaning figures like Robby Starbuck.

Notable corporations such as Walmart, Ford Motor Company, Molson Coors, and Jack Daniel’s parent company Brown-Forman have scaled back DEI initiatives.

Wikipedia, which receives approximately 4 billion monthly visits, asserts that it operates with political neutrality.

However, studies and reports have repeatedly pointed out the platform’s left-leaning bias.

Earlier this year, the online encyclopedia came under scrutiny when it removed a reference to Kamala Harris as a “border czar” in one of its entries.

This occurred after Joe Biden endorsed Harris to run against Donald Trump, despite Biden’s earlier assignment of border policy oversight to her during his administration.

A June report from the Manhattan Institute, a libertarian think tank, found that Wikipedia articles tend to portray right-leaning public figures with more negative sentiment, such as anger and disgust, compared to the positive emotions like joy more frequently associated with left-leaning figures.

Similarly, a 2012 study published in the American Economic Review analyzed 28,000 Wikipedia articles on U.S. politics and concluded that the entries leaned Democrat on average.

Larry Sanger, who co-founded Wikipedia with Jimmy Wales in 2001, has also raised concerns about the platform’s political bias.

In a 2021 interview with Unherd.com, Sanger claimed that Democratic-leaning volunteers actively remove content that conflicts with their views, citing the Hunter Biden laptop controversy as an example. “Can you trust it to always give you the truth? Well, it depends on what you think the truth is,” Sanger said.

Sanger and Wales have clashed over the years regarding their respective roles in founding the platform.

Sanger maintains that he co-founded Wikipedia, while Wales describes Sanger as a subordinate employee.

Wales has faced criticism for allegedly editing his own Wikipedia entry to downplay Sanger’s contributions.

As debates over Wikipedia’s neutrality and spending practices continue, Musk’s comments have amplified conservative criticism of the platform’s governance and priorities.

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