I know heaps of Aussies and Kiwis who have been saying, ‘glad we’re nothing like the USA’. Yes we are! We are just wilfully ignorant and a lot of our fascists are still saying the quiet part, quietly. Same deal as Canada, imo
Aussies have been doing a lot of the stuff which the US only ramped up under Trump, if I'm not mistaken. It's just off on islands and not on the mainland so it gets less attention.
On the spectrum, I think New Zealand is the best at reckoning with their history, but "not wanting to own up to having benefited from the monstrous actions of our predecessors" is a pretty universal problem.
claiming to have a great civilization that makes wondrous advancements in science and culture that benefit all humanity, but building that civilization with slaves on land cleared by genocide, is pretty shaky rhetorical and moral ground to stand on. best to just ignore all the unpleasant shit, especially because ignoring it allows one to also ignore that the unpleasant shit never even ended
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oh wow, the Right really is buying into the Space Invaders thing, huh?
It tickles me that right wingers were god damn giddy because they thought they finally had a body they could point to as evidence of antifa killing people.
But WHOOPS, dude's a fucking Pinkerton. lmao
Well there was that guy in Portland, they seem to have stopped talking about that one for some reason. Maybe they executed the suspect too quickly?
What I can't get over with the Portland shooter is that the guy had a serious and credible self-defense argument. Obviously even cases where its just straight up cut and dried murder they should take them alive for a civilized trial but jesus.
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The right crows about self-defense because in reality they want to be able to legally murder (black, brown, queer, trans) people, but when someone on the left claims self-defense they don't believe it because that's never what they mean.
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He was armed with a fuckin' gummy worm and a cell phone, and murdered extrajudiciously. Definitely no conflicts of interest between law enforcement agencies.
Just had an "oh geez" moment when one of my coworkers posted an article about use of some loaded terms which I had never really thought about (blacklist/whitelist, master/slave, etc), and trying to use other terms instead (deny/allowlists, host/device, etc).
It was a good in-the-moment examination to check biases.
Just had an "oh geez" moment when one of my coworkers posted an article about use of some loaded terms which I had never really thought about (blacklist/whitelist, master/slave, etc), and trying to use other terms instead (deny/allowlists, host/device, etc).
It was a good in-the-moment examination to check biases.
the term for the primary boot/os drive in PCs was master, and secondaries were known as slave drives
Just had an "oh geez" moment when one of my coworkers posted an article about use of some loaded terms which I had never really thought about (blacklist/whitelist, master/slave, etc), and trying to use other terms instead (deny/allowlists, host/device, etc).
It was a good in-the-moment examination to check biases.
the term for the primary boot/os drive in PCs was master, and secondaries were known as slave drives
Yeah. It's specifically about tech terms which are potentially loaded terms which are so ingrained we don't think about them.
Just had an "oh geez" moment when one of my coworkers posted an article about use of some loaded terms which I had never really thought about (blacklist/whitelist, master/slave, etc), and trying to use other terms instead (deny/allowlists, host/device, etc).
It was a good in-the-moment examination to check biases.
While master/slave is obviously problematic, blacklist is stretching it. That one dates back centuries (to at least the early 1600s per Wikipedia)
Just had an "oh geez" moment when one of my coworkers posted an article about use of some loaded terms which I had never really thought about (blacklist/whitelist, master/slave, etc), and trying to use other terms instead (deny/allowlists, host/device, etc).
It was a good in-the-moment examination to check biases.
While master/slave is obviously problematic, blacklist is stretching it. That one dates back centuries (to at least the early 1600s per Wikipedia)
It's not about the pedigree. It's about the connotation. "Blacklist", without context, doesn't indicate anything, no more than "whitelist". But the association "blacklist = deny, whitelist = allow", you're saying "black bad, white good", which is problematic.
Children's rights are human rights.
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Just had an "oh geez" moment when one of my coworkers posted an article about use of some loaded terms which I had never really thought about (blacklist/whitelist, master/slave, etc), and trying to use other terms instead (deny/allowlists, host/device, etc).
It was a good in-the-moment examination to check biases.
While master/slave is obviously problematic, blacklist is stretching it. That one dates back centuries (to at least the early 1600s per Wikipedia)
It's not about the pedigree. It's about the connotation. "Blacklist", without context, doesn't indicate anything, no more than "whitelist". But the association "blacklist = deny, whitelist = allow", you're saying "black bad, white good", which is problematic.
I feel like going too far down that path leads to us thinking that older instances of “black = bad” has to do with racism and not to do with, like, our nature as a diurnal species
Just had an "oh geez" moment when one of my coworkers posted an article about use of some loaded terms which I had never really thought about (blacklist/whitelist, master/slave, etc), and trying to use other terms instead (deny/allowlists, host/device, etc).
It was a good in-the-moment examination to check biases.
While master/slave is obviously problematic, blacklist is stretching it. That one dates back centuries (to at least the early 1600s per Wikipedia)
It's not about the pedigree. It's about the connotation. "Blacklist", without context, doesn't indicate anything, no more than "whitelist". But the association "blacklist = deny, whitelist = allow", you're saying "black bad, white good", which is problematic.
I feel like going too far down that path leads to us thinking that older instances of “black = bad” has to do with racism and not to do with, like, our nature as a diurnal species
You're confusing "black" with "dark"?
Also! 1600s? That's when the slave trade got going in earnest!
Children's rights are human rights.
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Blacklist and whitelist always felt like dumb shorthands in search of better nomenclature, like Allowed and Restricted.
Just had an "oh geez" moment when one of my coworkers posted an article about use of some loaded terms which I had never really thought about (blacklist/whitelist, master/slave, etc), and trying to use other terms instead (deny/allowlists, host/device, etc).
It was a good in-the-moment examination to check biases.
While master/slave is obviously problematic, blacklist is stretching it. That one dates back centuries (to at least the early 1600s per Wikipedia)
It's not about the pedigree. It's about the connotation. "Blacklist", without context, doesn't indicate anything, no more than "whitelist". But the association "blacklist = deny, whitelist = allow", you're saying "black bad, white good", which is problematic.
I feel like going too far down that path leads to us thinking that older instances of “black = bad” has to do with racism and not to do with, like, our nature as a diurnal species
You're confusing "black" with "dark"?
Also! 1600s? That's when the slave trade got going in earnest!
No, the color black has an association with evil that dates back to antiquity. That's where the word blacklist comes from - a literal list of criminals.
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At a certain point we're getting into linguistics, where yes, black (or its equivalent - remember that color is not a linguistic constant) frequently has a negative association.
If we want to go that route though, we can look at it instead in the other direction, and the usage of the word black to describe a very wide range of skin tones (which is not to say that skin tone is the whole of race, and once you expand things beyond simply skin tone, the suggestions of black or white become even more jarring).
Straightzi on
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
Also let's be careful not to directly associate criminality and evil here
Especially when the crime in question is as cool as deposing the King of England
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Ain't no cide like a regicide.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
At a certain point we're getting into linguistics, where yes, black (or its equivalent - remember that color is not a linguistic constant) frequently has a negative association.
If we want to go that route though, we can look at it instead in the other direction, and the usage of the word black to describe a very wide range of skin tones (which is not to say that skin tone is the whole of race, and once you expand things beyond simply skin tone, the suggestions of black or white become even more jarring).
Odysseus was described as black skinned and blue haired by Homer and in modern Greek black as a descriptor for skinis used to describe getting a sun tan. Just as an example how black-evil wasn't always clear cut.
At a certain point we're getting into linguistics, where yes, black (or its equivalent - remember that color is not a linguistic constant) frequently has a negative association.
If we want to go that route though, we can look at it instead in the other direction, and the usage of the word black to describe a very wide range of skin tones (which is not to say that skin tone is the whole of race, and once you expand things beyond simply skin tone, the suggestions of black or white become even more jarring).
Odysseus was described as black skinned and blue haired by Homer and in modern Greek black as a descriptor for skinis used to describe getting a sun tan. Just as an example how black-evil wasn't always clear cut.
It probably meant more leathery, but how ancient Greeks used color to indicate action as well as appearance is actually pretty fascinating
I never thought I'd see the day where black America would try to cancel ice cube over his unwillingness to suck the collective phallus of the Democratic Party.
I never thought I'd see the day where black America would try to cancel ice cube over his unwillingness to suck the collective phallus of the Democratic Party.
And yet here we are
ice cube is a raging anti-semite who idolizes louis farrakhan
I never thought I'd see the day where black America would try to cancel ice cube over his unwillingness to suck the collective phallus of the Democratic Party.
And yet here we are
ice cube is a raging anti-semite who idolizes louis farrakhan
yeah ok but the Dems also blew him off "until after the election" while the GOP did not.
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I know heaps of Aussies and Kiwis who have been saying, ‘glad we’re nothing like the USA’. Yes we are! We are just wilfully ignorant and a lot of our fascists are still saying the quiet part, quietly. Same deal as Canada, imo
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On the spectrum, I think New Zealand is the best at reckoning with their history, but "not wanting to own up to having benefited from the monstrous actions of our predecessors" is a pretty universal problem.
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It was a good in-the-moment examination to check biases.
the term for the primary boot/os drive in PCs was master, and secondaries were known as slave drives
Yeah. It's specifically about tech terms which are potentially loaded terms which are so ingrained we don't think about them.
https://www.wired.com/story/tech-confronts-use-labels-master-slave/
While master/slave is obviously problematic, blacklist is stretching it. That one dates back centuries (to at least the early 1600s per Wikipedia)
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It's not about the pedigree. It's about the connotation. "Blacklist", without context, doesn't indicate anything, no more than "whitelist". But the association "blacklist = deny, whitelist = allow", you're saying "black bad, white good", which is problematic.
I feel like going too far down that path leads to us thinking that older instances of “black = bad” has to do with racism and not to do with, like, our nature as a diurnal species
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You're confusing "black" with "dark"?
Also! 1600s? That's when the slave trade got going in earnest!
No, the color black has an association with evil that dates back to antiquity. That's where the word blacklist comes from - a literal list of criminals.
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If we want to go that route though, we can look at it instead in the other direction, and the usage of the word black to describe a very wide range of skin tones (which is not to say that skin tone is the whole of race, and once you expand things beyond simply skin tone, the suggestions of black or white become even more jarring).
Especially when the crime in question is as cool as deposing the King of England
Odysseus was described as black skinned and blue haired by Homer and in modern Greek black as a descriptor for skinis used to describe getting a sun tan. Just as an example how black-evil wasn't always clear cut.
But extortion is cool. Because of the X.
Like fuck we don’t!
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No cops, no kings.
It probably meant more leathery, but how ancient Greeks used color to indicate action as well as appearance is actually pretty fascinating
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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and practice
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Also
https://youtu.be/Q159wsFkfxo
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
https://youtu.be/Ss149jPUX6Q
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Laura's thread there has video of physical violence, against both homeless and nazis. Just a warning.
edit- tweet was deleted. Here's one with more up to date information.
When the police didn't immediately arrive guns blazing after her first call, she made a second 911 call claiming that he tried to assault her. She really wanted to see some murder happen before her eyes.
Anyway, it came up because she finally went before a judge and it's part of the charges against her.
in other news, y'all been hearing about the shitty white canadians getting up in the business of indigenous lobster fishermen recently?
and how the RCMP have just kinda let them do it?
anyway they burned down the factory where they processed the lobster
And yet here we are
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
ice cube is a raging anti-semite who idolizes louis farrakhan
yeah ok but the Dems also blew him off "until after the election" while the GOP did not.