• zd9@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    They’re gonna go kill brown people to get the focus off of the richest ruling elite in the world (including their own commander in chief) trafficking, raping, and murdering children.

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        Seriously? It’ll definitely work for more people than one dares to believe. It’s not about it working in the way you mean on us, the people that nothing will work on, it’s about everyone else. And for us that have functional empathy, conscience, intelligence etc. it will work in another way, we see the horrors about to happen. We see the people it’s going to happen to as actual people and anyone can only handle so much. It’s the classic “do or confess bad thing to make other bad thing seem less relevant”, and that works on everyone, just in different ways.
        I can absolutely see even here on lemmy being filled with news about this and less about what they’re doing this to take attention away from. It’ll work on me, no matter how much I don’t want it to, because I feel for the people who will suffer and die from this. And It’ll work on others in other ways.

      • Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Yeah, we’ve already firmly established that the majority of the US still doesn’t care about these countries. I doubt it’ll be more than a blip.

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        In the '20s, people considered Irish immigrants not to be white. It’s a meaningless label that people subjectively change the definition of just to other those they don’t like

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          Irish people are like physically some of the whitest people in existence. All the Celts, Germanics are up there, very fair skin, starved of vitamin d for ages presumably they developed that skin to produce more when they did get sun.

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          It’s not about white or brown. It’s easier for them to get support to abuse the brown people, it doesn’t mean white people are safe, or they won’t be working to hurt them. In fact everything they are doing is getting license to hurt white people en masse in the united states proper, while they steal elections, and throw protesters in camps, with courts unable to issue nationwide injunctions now.

          That said, the Iranians are basically white, without the head gear they would fit right in, Iran means Aryan by the way. From being settled by horse tribes from the steppes of Asia around 1,500 bc,

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        21 hours ago

        It was never about skin colour though, was it?

        disclaimer for people who don't like to interpret internet comments charitably

        (even if it was, that wouldn’t make racism acceptable ofc)

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          21 hours ago

          I love that disclaimer. I feel like I need to put it on everything. People seem quite incapable of separating descriptive and normative statements on here.

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            Sometimes I feel like people have misinterpreted all my social critiques as advocacy for the things I was critiquing.

            Like I’ll point something out, say “Society tends to do such-and-such,” implying, “and that’s wrong,” but what people hear instead is “as it should.”

            Like, I could explicitly state “and that’s wrong” all the time, but sometimes that would get a “no shit” reaction, or possibly come off as performative.

            Sometimes there’s just no winning…