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[–] S491@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] lady_maria@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

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

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 40 points 2 days 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.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] riot@slrpnk.net 15 points 2 days 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.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 6 points 2 days ago

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

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days 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.

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days 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

[–] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Israeli isn't a race last time I checked

[–] pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 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.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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...

[–] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 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.

[–] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 17 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

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 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.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 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.

[–] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

maybe try being funny next time

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 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"

[–] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

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

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm still unclear what an Isli tourist is.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Das ist verboten.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days 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.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Hmm alright, that would make sense too

[–] FoxyGrandpa@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Mods can we clean up this guys language? /s

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 79 points 2 days ago

Family guy hit a slam dunk with that bit

[–] FMT99@lemmy.world 71 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

“My mental health only deteriorates near Muslims!”

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

"And that is why Muslims are dangerous!"

[–] Zidane@sh.itjust.works 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Fixed that for ya bub

[–] HungLikeAHoers2010@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 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.”

[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 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.

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

-- Luigi, hopefully

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Ya I down vote every censored post.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 2 days ago

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

These people deserve each other ❤️