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      12 hours ago

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

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

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          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…

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          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

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            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.

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        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.

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      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.

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          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.

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        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.

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        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

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      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.

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

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    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.”

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        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.

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

    These people deserve each other ❤️