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Is it racist to censor out the word Israeli? Fucking bizarre
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.
It's pretty florking stupid and makes me want to unalive myself.
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.
It does give off Ministry of Truth vibes from 1984...
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.
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
Israeli isn't a race last time I checked
There were no human races last time I checked. It's strange that English is still saying people are a certain race.
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...
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
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.
none of the things you just listed are physical traits that race depends on. it's purely based on perceived phenotype
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.
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.
maybe try being funny next time
Lol the refrain of people like you: iT wAsNt FuNnY
Your comments scream "I'm really into Reddit"
we're on Lemmy so it doesn't take an Edward Snowden to figure that out. great job champ
It's more about the tone and general aloofness. Now, please go away
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.
Hmm alright, that would make sense too
I'm still unclear what an Isli tourist is.
Das ist verboten.
Mods can we clean up this guys language? /s