Twitter has de-platformed Nick Fuentes, who has been designated as a white nationalist by the Department of Justice.
Forbes reported that Fuentes posted on Telegram that his Twitter ban is the result of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which posted a “Five Things to Know” article about him. One of the things on the list was that “Fuentes has used his platforms to make numerous antisemitic and racist comments.” As examples, the ADL pointed to Fuentes calling Daily Wire writer and podcast host Matt Walsh a “shabbos goy race traitor” and Fuentes claiming the official six million Holocaust figure is overexaggerated, drawing a comparison with cookies in ovens; Fuentes has claimed he was kidding but wouldn’t retract the statement. Additionally, the ADL pointed to Fuentes calling for Republicans to tackle “Jewish Power” and that he doesn’t “see Jews as Europeans and I don’t see them as part of Western civilization.”
“Was it the Holocaust denial or the constant support for white supremacist ideology?” writer and activist Yoni Michanie tweeted. “Either way, good.”
Was it the Holocaust denial or the constant support for white supremacist ideology?
Either way, good. pic.twitter.com/VrK2PTEPkr
— Yoni Michanie (@YoniMichanie) July 9, 2021
Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro tweeted, “Nick Fuentes is a garbage person with garbage beliefs. Twitter is also filled with lots of garbage people with garbage beliefs. Only certain people get banned. Nobody should trust Twitter’s supposed free speech neutrality.”
Nick Fuentes is a garbage person with garbage beliefs. Twitter is also filled with lots of garbage people with garbage beliefs. Only certain people get banned. Nobody should trust Twitter's supposed free speech neutrality.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) July 9, 2021
Pro-Israel activist Hen Mazzig tweeted, “The question is not why Nick Fuentes was banned from Twitter, it’s why Twitter did allow a Neo Nazi leader like him have an account in 2021?”
The question is not why Nick Fuentes was banned from Twitter, it’s why Twitter did allow a Neo Nazi leader like him have an account in 2021?
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) July 9, 2021
Fuentes had been in the news recently after a flyer circulated on social media about a fundraiser that Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ) would be holding with Fuentes; Gosar later said he had no knowledge of the fundraiser.
In a July 4 op-ed for the Journal, George Washington University student Jack Elbaum urged conservatives to disavow Fuentes. “It should not be supremely controversial to suggest that white nationalism should fall outside of our limits of socially acceptable ideas. U.S. history since the 1960s has been, in part, characterized by a country-wide reckoning with our discriminatory and racist past. To believe that voices who advocate a retrogression to those backward times should be given just as much legitimacy as any other view is absurd.”
