The commonality, as expected, is that they are all conservatives, more or less. At the very least, they are all anti-liberal. It's an interesting roster for "hate speech and promoting violence." Which ones promotes violence? None of them. Which ones engages in hate speech? As always, it depends on the definition of hate speech. Only Farrakhan is openly racist and anti-Semitic. For the rest, they are openly anti-liberal, which is equivalent to hate speech in the modern vernacular. Paul Nehlen is a hate speaker because he opposes gay marriage. Milo Yiannopoulos is gay married, but he's a hate speaker too because ... well he picked the wrong side, and that's all that really matters.
It's not a particularly interesting story that Facebook is a Democrat-controlled political platform. But what is interesting is the way that they attempted to show a balanced stance against hate by including Farrakhan. Has he recently said anything different than he always has? No, but it was convenient to use him as cover to ban popular conservative internet personalities ahead of the next election cycle. Facebook was widely blamed for handing Trump the 2020 election, and they won't repeat the mistake - even if it means destroying their own platform to do so. Politics are just that important to them. They got to trade one Louis Farrakhan for five white conservatives. The numbers work in their favor. What's interesting is that they thought Farrakhan would give a nice balance to their censorship palette. However, he's a churchman, an ethno-nationalist, and is opposed to homosexuality and gay marriage. On paper, a bigot of epic proportions! But he also happens to be black, at least nominally Muslim, and - most importantly - a firebrand who engages in anti-white rhetoric, which to them is the most important determination for whether a person is on the right side. He's not a conservative in the conventional sense (and certainly no Republican), but he is, overall, opposed to liberalism as a force that weakens the black race. So, effectively, Facebook's message is: yeah, we banned a bunch of white conservatives, but we also banned a black conservative too, so it's fair!
There's another thing that these people have in common besides being opposed to modern liberalism - they are all entertaining. Besides Nehlen - a businessman who opposed Paul Ryan in the 2016 primaries - they are all professional entertainers. Farrakhan is a cleric, but his fame has come through his charismatic sermons. Take him out, and the rest are basically comedians. Paul Joseph Watson got a large following by ridiculing leftists. His videos are essentially comedy bits in his own personal style. Loomer is on the political activism side, but she's still funny. She recently paid a group of illegal immigrants to cross into Nancy Pelosi's walled property, which is hilarious. Milo is of course a comedic provocateur. He has strong political opinions, but he is foremost an entertainer. Alex Jones is similar. Yes, he's a maniac conspiracy theorist who believes liberals are destroying the country, but he's also very funny. He's most often putting on a show too, opting for entertainment over pure truth. The left say it's dangerous to have politically opinionated fake news programs, but that's a lie. They love Rachel Maddow, The Daily Show, the Colbert Report, etc. The real problem they have is entertaining people of the wrong belief system. Hate speech means being likable but not liberal.
Facebook is now pandering to The Cult by banning all kinds of genuine entertainers from its platform. If you want pictures of food or endless progressive screeching, go to Facebook. If you want edgy humor or conservative opinions, you'll have to go elsewhere. And you should. Most of those who were banned can be found on other platforms. Alex Jones puts everything up on Bitchute, as do Paul Joseph Watson and Own Benjamin (previously banned). Laura Loomer and Paul Nehlen are on Gab. Facebook hasn't blocked us from accessing our preferred entertainment, just made themselves irrelevant as a platform for us.
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