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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Don't forget the tourists immediately sent out a tweet about the shooting and ended it by saying 'death to arabs'

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Luigi Mangione is a troubled youth that made an awkward gesture towards a CEO, a warning is good enough, case dismissed.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Young Man Blames Health Crisis for Sudden Death of Chief Executed Officer

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Extreme Racism is a chronic mental problem, not a mental health crisis.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

yes, but it's a systemic problem at its root

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Is it racist to censor out the word Israeli? Fucking bizarre

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (3 children)

From what I understand it's some kind of self-censorship people are engaging in on major social media platforms in an attempt to stop posts with potentially ""problematic"" words being demoted. It leads to this sort of stupid arbitary brushing out of words.

I blame both the platforms for having shitty algorithms designed to whitewash everything, and users who are absolutely obsessed with engagement and likes on their posts so they censor the shit out of so many words. If you have to censor words like "die", "kill", "fuck" "nazi" etc. then there's a big problem.

Fuck big tech, fuck advertisers, and fuck influencers.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's pretty florking stupid and makes me want to unalive myself.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Tik-Tok inspired use of unalive has seeped beyond the boundaries of the app. It drives me crazy when people say that in real life. The dystopian vibes really start to hit when censored online jargon bleeds into IRL. For the sake of pushing past it - it makes me want to kill myself.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

It does give off Ministry of Truth vibes from 1984...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I'm sure you're right. I was thinking "not allowed" but yeah those fucked algorithms are behind everything now. Agree, fuck those three groups.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

My solution is to block every individual who ever posts a meme censoring words. I know they didn't create it, I don't care, willingly censoring benign words (and sharing this behavior like it's acceptable) is my line in the sand for dumb Internet bullshit and I will die on that hill. We must not reshape our language for this nonsense.

Downside is I'll be having a quieter Lemmy experience soon, lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Israeli isn't a race last time I checked

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There were no human races last time I checked. It's strange that English is still saying people are a certain race.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Because the meanings of words can shift over time, and in English, the word "race" now has two different (though slightly related) meanings.

Well, three, if you include car races...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

biologically no, but socially white supremacy is very much a thing and so is race. Israelis can be of any race therefore a blanket statement of racism against them is nonsensical since Israeli is a nationality not a race

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

biologically no

Biologically still kinda yes in that most of the world was mostly reproductively isolated from each other for most of history, and as such something as hypothetically meaningless as skin color correlates with likelihood of a whole array of other genetic things.

For example, the bigger a threat malaria was in your ancestors' part of the world the more likely you are to inherit sickle cell (which has a bunch of downsides but also makes you resistant to malaria). It's the reason frequency of lactose tolerance varies based on where your ancestors are from. It also impacts organ transplant availability, because the organ compatibility markers are not uniformly distributed across all racial/ethnic groups.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

none of the things you just listed are physical traits that race depends on. it's purely based on perceived phenotype

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Right, but because most of humanity has been mostly reproductively isolated from each other for most of history there is a correlation between expressed phenotype in the handful of things that we think of as "race" and a boatload of other assorted genetically linked things.

Like how dogs with certain eye colors are more likely to go deaf.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What the fuck does it matter? The last I checked, taking a flippant joke as serious and literal is pointless and just makes you look bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

maybe try being funny next time

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Lol the refrain of people like you: iT wAsNt FuNnY

Your comments scream "I'm really into Reddit"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

we're on Lemmy so it doesn't take an Edward Snowden to figure that out. great job champ

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

It's more about the tone and general aloofness. Now, please go away

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm still unclear what an Isli tourist is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Das ist verboten.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's to try to stop brigading on other social media. There's credible evidence that points to bot farms searching for anti-Israeli/Zionist posts and targeting them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Hmm alright, that would make sense too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Mods can we clean up this guys language? /s

[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 days ago

Family guy hit a slam dunk with that bit

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Officer if I had known they were not Palestinian of course I would have never shot them."

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

“My mental health only deteriorates near Muslims!”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

"And that is why Muslims are dangerous!"

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Fixed that for ya bub

[–] HungLikeAHoers2010 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

American - check Israel supporter - check Two of the worst types of "people" in the world.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mr. Tischler said that his client had “no prior history of violent or hateful behavior” and that he was cooperating with law enforcement. His client acknowledged the seriousness of the charges, he said, but had not been able to control his actions.

“At the time of the incident, Mr. Brafman was experiencing a severe mental health crisis which caused him to be in fear for his life,” the lawyer said in a text message to The New York Times. “It is believed that his ability to make sound judgments was significantly compromised.”

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Like like they're maybe trying to avoid the hate crime charge via an insanity plea...?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah. What else is he supposed to say? The guy basically told the cops "Here's exactly what I did. Also, I meant to kill them, because of their race." Basically, all he can do is threaten to make them waste resources by dragging out the case as much as he can, to increase leverage to get as merciful a plea deal as possible.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I believed my health insurance claim would be denied and I was in fear of my life

-- Luigi, hopefully

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Blocked for the censored word, we must not tolerate this horseshit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Ya I down vote every censored post.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

And people say there is no poetic justice in the world.

These people deserve each other ❤️