Wasn't an outbreak of anti-muslim sentiment? Eh?
This is grade-A revisionism.
I remember a bunch of Sikhs were attacked because people thought turban + beard = Muslim terrorist.
ngl i think i'd black out and wake up covered in their blood
When I asked what a redditor would think if China invaded 2 countries in 2 years on the other side of the world and planned to stay there forever in "self defense" and they said "well if China was attacked by terrorists, they would do worse than that!"
Just so fucking clueless.
Why is this ^ comment purple?
edit: Mine is too? Does that show comments added after I open the thread?
Doing what the bloodthirsty masses want isn't "handling it well" it's handling it popularly.
I think you are completely misunderstanding what objective fact means. Take this L
This feels like an addendum to the GWB-rehabilitation tour. Cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug.
I can’t tell anymore if people like this are purposefully rewriting history or just blissfully unaware of the impact due to their privilege
not that it ultimately matters, he can kick rocks regardless
American academics like krug love to rewrite history. There's this absolutely insane belief that anything bad that happens was just by virtue that we were worse people in the past and are always getting better.
This is so fucking bad. I'm not even american, and i was like 10 years old during this time, and even I remember news about anti-muslim sentiment and people attacking people in the muslim communities in the states. It was so bad it was international news.
Yes but there were no Tsarist-era Pogroms of Muslims, only a few attacks and murders (oh and the two wars), therefore no anti-Muslim sentiment in America.
Only 5-7million people were killed by the wars started by the USA since 9/11
I remember the 'shoot removed' flash games at the time. There definitely was a giant anti Muslim sentiment.
To automatically censor words. This is a twelfth type of liberalism.
Seriously though idk if automatically censoring certain words is a good idea. Seems like it both makes discussion about those words harder (especially by the people they apply to) and blinds people to legitimately hateful content that just doesn't happen to use particular words.
It being baked into Lemmy makes it much harder for reactionaries to enjoy using Lemmy, which means when it federates leftists are going to have an easier time dominating the space. It's not terribly hard to talk about the obvious racism behind the word and there's no legimate use of the word that isn't criticizing it. If anything, if the filter gets tripped it should show up in the mod queue so it's easier to bring the hammer down if it wasn't used in the rare situation where it'd be acceptable.
Oh, I didn't know it was baked into Lemmy. That makes sense, then.
hm, i wonder how they'll handle ‘censorship’ when we have federation. maybe you can ‘trust’ users of specific instances more strongly and correspondingly value their up/down votes more than others in auto-hiding bad takes.
I agree. I think algorithms and systems on itself cannot correctly assess intent.
"if you feed a terrorist, or fund a terrorist, you're a terrorist"
--bush calling out the CIA
Holy shit I thought he was being sarcastic and you all just got got, but he's being sincere. Tweet thread
His next tweet is about how Americans were afraid to fly for months? (Calmly?)
His next two are about Republicans exploiting the disaster and anti-Muslim sentiment to support war and taxcuts?
So weird and inconsistent.
A bunch of
sheiksSikhs died because they were misrepresented as Muslims. Yeah. America was so calm about it.*Sikhs. Sheik = Muslim cleric XD (or sometimes a type of secular local Arab leader).
there wasn't a mass outbreak of anti Muslim sentiment
what about the continent-wide wigout known as the invasion of Iraq?
I mean, I can kinda see how he's right. If 9/11 happened today, you'd have Trump calling for pogroms and right-wing militias in the streets calling for the genocide of Muslims, which didn't happen after actual 9/11 looks at the Iraq War oh shit
Did Paul step through a portal into a different dimension, or something? Is he writing in character as someone from an alternate reality? Perhaps it's an elaborate bit?
