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    Biden gave a speech vowing to combat white supremacy and calling on Americans to unite against hate and political violence. He recounted racist attacks like those in Charleston and El Paso that have left the country reeling. Biden appealed to Congress to hold social media companies accountable for spreading hate and remove protections that shield them from liability for extremist content on their platforms. While Republicans have criticized Biden for dividing the country, he defended speaking out against extremism and said silence would be complicity.

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    10/3/22, 1:04 AM BB News | World's First Bulletin News Agency

    UNITED STATES

    Biden vows to combat ‘venom and violence’ of white supremacy


      |  

    By S Vijay Kumar I International Editor I 16th September  2022 I  


     
    US President Joe Biden has appealed for a united front against hate crimes and political violence in a speech
    building on his bid to present himself as a champion of moderate values at a time of rising extremism.  Biden said
    America had long experienced a "through line of hate" against minority groups, one that had been given "too
    much oxygen" by politics and the media in recent years. "We have to face the good, the bad and the truth. That's
    what great nations do and we're a great nation," Biden told a packed hall at the White House's United We Stand
    Summit on Thursday. "White supremacists will not have the last word."
    "You must choose to be a nation of hope, unity and optimism –– or a nation of fear and division and hate," Biden
    added. Biden recounted, as often before, how he took the decision to challenge then-president Donald Trump in
    the 2020 election after the Republican initially declined to condemn a 2017 neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville,
    Virginia. "Charlottesville changed everything because I believe our story is to unite as people in one nation, in
    one America."
    Participants gave Biden a standing ovation when he said he wanted Congress to "hold social media companies
    accountable for spreading hate." "I'm calling on Congress to get rid of special immunity for social media
    companies and impose much stronger transparency requirements on all of them," Biden said.
    He said that a spate of racist violence –– including a deadly attack on a Black church in Charleston, South
    Carolina, in 2015, a mass shooting targeting Latinos in El Paso, Texas, in 2019, and another gun massacre, this
    time targeting African Americans, in Buffalo, New York, in May –– had left the country reeling."Many of you have
    lost part of your heart and soul," he told the audience, which included a cross-section of civil rights activists,
    religious leaders, academics and elected officials.

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    The White House described the day-long conference, with Biden giving the keynote speech, as a chance to
    highlight "the corrosive effects of hate-fuelled violence on our democracy and public safety." The summit comes
    just eight weeks ahead of midterm elections in which Republicans are seeking to take control of Congress.It also
    comes two weeks after Biden delivered a fiery speech denouncing the "extreme ideology" of Trump, whose
    supporters overran the Capitol to try to overturn the 2020 election and who continues to promote far-right
    conspiracy theories. A White House official told reporters that Thursday's event, which featured a panel with both
    Republican and Democratic mayors, was not political and would "demonstrate that we can unite across partisan
    lines." 
    However, Republicans have painted Biden as a divider for calling out Trump supporters, noting that the former
    president remains hugely popular with the party's voters.Biden defended himself in his White House speech,
    saying he was right to speak up."There are those who say that when we bring this up we divide the country," he
    said. But "silence is complicity."
    Among some of the practical measures discussed at the conference was Biden's suggestion that Congress
    should "get rid of special immunity for social media companies and impose much strong transparency
    requirements on all of them" regarding extremist content.The provision known as Section 230 shields platforms
    from liability for the content and has long been targeted by some in Congress. Biden announced a $1 billion push
    by philanthropists to build bridges among Americans of different backgrounds, and an initiative supported by the
    foundations of former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Gerald Ford.

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