YouTube has banned some prominent white supremacist channels as internet companies face a backlash over racist content. In a statement YouTube said: “We have strict policies prohibiting hate speech on YouTube, and terminate any channel that repeatedly or egregiously violates those policies. After updating our guidelines to better address supremacist content, we saw a 5x spike in video removals and have terminated over 25,000 channels for violating our hate speech policies,” it added.
— BBC, 6/30/20

While it’s currently trendy to tell the world that #BlackLivesMatter and any racism is a bad thing, YouTube has always displayed a poor record of weeding out racism when it comes from their left.

On August 4th, 2010 I wrote an email to Andrew Breitbart (an original supporter of black conservatives against liberal racism) which later inspired the Big Government post, “Resolution Against YouTube ‘Racism’“.

Using the NAACP’s resolution against Tea Party “racism” as a model, I hereby ask YouTube to repudiate their racist users.

“I take no issue with Google’s YouTube community. I believe in freedom of assembly and people raising their voices in a democracy. What I take issue with is the YouTube’s continued tolerance for bigotry and bigoted statements. The time has come for them to accept the responsibility that comes with influence and make clear there is no place for racism & anti-Semitism, homophobia and other forms of bigotry on their website.”

The following are real comments of YouTube users from just one of my videos on the Black & Right channel. They have not been Photoshopped and distributed by Think Progress.

Here are the screenshots of actual comments sent to me from YouTube users that somehow made it past their oh-so supportive and racially sensitive “community standards” monitors.

I’ve sent screenshots of comments like these to YouTube on many occasions and have yet to receive acknowledgement.

And almost all of the offending users STILL have their YouTube channels to this day.

It’s amazing, with all the sophisticated algorithms and filters at their disposal, how easily the word “nigger” got by YouTube, as well as the professional media that can always interpret a presidential Tweet into something they want while missing concrete examples that require no investigation for possible motive or Snopes certification.

During a few of our phone conversations, I posed the idea to Andrew of adding “Big Race” to his family of then-growing websites; an idea he didn’t seem too crazy about.

Not because it was a bad idea but he probably knew the magnitude of such a project when it comes to monitoring racist hate speech from the left; racist hate speech that’s ignored thus obviously agreed with by the tolerant and inclusive within Google and other social media platforms.

Race has long been an unsettling undercurrent of the 2016 presidential race. But this week, the two major candidates forced that debate into the open with Hillary Clinton’s speech linking Donald Trump to the “alt-right” movement, and Trump’s new charge that the former secretary of state is “a bigot” who has pandered to minorities with feckless policies as part of a calculated quest for votes.
— CNN, 8/26/16

Racism’s been a consistent club used to bash Trump, especially after Breitbart’s Steve Bannon was picked to be an advisor within his administration. Breitbart.com is no more a white supremacist website than is any liberal media site, but Democrats are never hesitant to slander anyone or anything they deem a threat.

The “alt-right” narrative was explored during a group interview on the BBC, and the following is an excerpt of that discussion.

If a film or video is created and presents a particular point of view, the producer’s accuracy and motivations are appropriately scrutinized. However, when a film or video is self-labeled a “documentary”, it’s enjoys the immediate assumption of being an absolute truth which is why they permeate grade schools, colleges and are delivered to online platforms aimed at the impressionable.

Yoni Appelbaum, Washington Bureau Chief at The Atlantic, got all butt-hurt when Bob dared challenge their “journalism” and accused The Atlantic of selective editing in their so-called “documentary” clip of The National Policy Institute’s Richard Spencer speech. While Applebaum said the entire video is “available online”, The Atlantic has provided no link to their original post to this day.

The full radio segment, America’s ‘Alt-right’, can be found on the BBC’s website.