RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/June 2020

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June 2020

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Hilarious Twitter thread at the expense of a UK couple living in France who now have to comes to grips with losing right of residency due to Brexit. Well worth reading to the end.... with possibly more to come. (Twitter account has been deleted) Was it fake?Thread reader and more

17

Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, once again, can't keep his mouth shut for long. He suggests to ignore Dr. Anthony Fauci, claiming he doesn't know what he's talking about. Who's the one who has medical experience?

30

Reddit bans several prolific far right subreddits, notably /r/the_donald and updates its content policy to explicitly ban hate speech.

11

Daily Torygraph op-ed: Black Lives Matter protests and the Labour Party's left wing are a catalyst for antisemitism (warning Paywall bitching)

25

White, gay Trump supporter claims that Black Lives Matter is trying to "colonize" Pride Month

14

SyrianGirl: Let's cancel Martin Luther King Jr. because he was a Christian Zionist! Now you offended both Blacks and Jews in the same tweet during the worst possible time!

32

Katie Hopkins is banned from Twitter forever for violating its 'hateful conduct' policy.

32

Donald Trump on the coronavirus: "If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases." When you're the leader of the country with the most Covid cases and deaths in the world, perhaps stopping testing may not be a good idea...

36

Tucker Carlson rages about Sesame Street and Elmo...seriously. All because the show had a special about the murder of George Floyd.

38

OANN makes an insane news segment alleging Martin Gugino, a 75-year old man who was shoved to the ground by Buffalo police officers, of being an ANTIFA provocateur. The story originated from fake news blog, The Conservative Treehouse.This false story was later tweeted by Trump.

16

Daily Torygraph: According to the former head of MI6 the coronavirus was inserted in a Chinese lab and thus China must pay reparations

45

One Angry Gamer compiles a list of "traitors" to America, a list of people/companies who are condemning the death of George Floyd. Yes, because being against police brutality is somehow being a traitor to America.