Got here before all the libs completely swarmed it crying about ‘reverse racism’, that’s a first.
Let me throw out a few things for our federated people:
-You cannot be truly ‘racist’ to white people, as racism refers to prejudice in addition to the backing of socialized power structures at play.
-Calling someone an ‘anglo devil’ in the context of that person making a joke about all Russians being Nazis is perfectly justified.
-Reddit’s moderation team is headed by a ‘former’ CIA demon, and has been for years.
-Calling someone an ‘anglo devil’ in the context of that person making a joke about all Russians being Nazis is perfectly justified.
Calling the English “Anglo devils” is always justified. If they get offended, tell them it’s “banter” and they are socially obligated to accept it.
I know the last one is true, but perhaps someone could link a source for our new friends. I remember there used to be a little debunking paragraph with links floating around here.
That is the OG Effortpost, someone posted (re-posted?) essentially all of that a few days ago.
When she was appointed to her position at Reddit, Jessica Ashooh never worked at a social media company before, had never held a senior position in a private sector company, and had spent the last 7 years working public sector jobs.
Her immediate past position, from March 2015 - May 2017, was as Deputy Director Middle East Strategy Task Force at the Atlantic Council and before that from June 2011 to February 2015 she was a Senior Analyst at the Policy Planning Department of the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs
As this internal CIA document made publically available by FOIA shows, The Atlantic Council, is a CIA front.
Totally normal things, someone who worked for a CIA front and the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs just becoming head of moderation at a massive social media site despite 0 relevant experience.
Oh also, bonus:
“I know what it’s like to live under censorship,” she said. “My internal check, when I’m arguing for a restrictive policy on the site, is Do I sound like an Arab government? If so, maybe I should scale it back.” On the other hand, she said, “people hide behind the notion that there’s a bright line between ideology and action, but some ideologies are inherently more violent than others.”
My internal check, when I’m arguing for a restrictive policy on the site, is Do I sound like an Arab government? If so, maybe I should scale it back.
Do I sound like an Arab government? If so, maybe I should scale it back.
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So like, this is something that bothers me.
Why hide behind a more academic definition of “racism” when someone calls a white person an “Anglo devil” or something similar? I think it is pretty inarguably bigoted and dehumanizing along racial lines, y’know, the colloquial definition of racist?
White supremacy is a thing, absolutely, but why would we want to automatically side with the jerk insulting people based on their race?
Calling all Russians Nazis is obviously wrong, too, not siding with that person either. But why is a race-based insult somehow “justified”? Can’t they both just be being shitty?
I don’t give a shit about civility politics, but this attitude is just weird to me. Bringing systemic level critique (which is valid don’t get it twisted) to justify one side of a small interpersonal scuffle is bonkers.
If you zoom in to the specific one-on-one interaction then yes a white person being called an Anglo Devil or cracka is having their feelings hurt along racial lines.
However, why should we disregard all the context and background of a global system of white supremacy that keeps the vast majority of POC peoples poor, subservient, and voiceless? Why focus on a white individual being made to feel momentarily uncomfortable when the system of white supremacy perpetrated by white people does not give POC the option of being treated as individuals with feelings and needs?
If a Polish person in occupied Warsaw tells a German on the street to “fuck off to Germany, you Nazi”, the possibility of that German not being a Nazi and having their feelings hurt is completely inconsequential to whatever the Pole is going through.
I was not ‘hiding behind a more academic definition of “racism”’, I was noting that ‘reverse racism’ is not real. Yes, white people can experience racial prejudice, but that is worlds apart from racism as one has all the social, legal, and overall systemic backing of generations of hatred, and the other is someone being called a ‘bleach demon’ online.
Distinctions like that matter.
