Saizaku
Hi, could you perhaps elaborate a bit on the racist history of the bell curve? I’m well aware of the racist history of IQ, but I don’t even have an inkling of what that’s referring to in the context of the bell curve. It’s just the graph of a normal distribution, is this referring to some weird application of it to some racist shit?
PS: I know you’ve attached a video with info on it and me asking might be kinda dumb. However, I saw it’s 2+hrs and I don’t have the time to watch it right now but I’m still interested.
Idk why you would ever allow r/196 to move to your instance. I had to unsub from that place like a year before I even moved to Lemmy. I’m not trans so maybe my perspective is a bit skewed but that place always seemed to fetishize trans people so much, especially mtf. Also the users there seemed very keen on pushing one specific way to be trans as valid. When anyone in the comments would complain about any of this they would be downvoted to hell. I’m of the mind that even if you don’t think you’re doing anything objectively wrong if people complain that it’s hurtful you should try to be accommodating, especially in a trans place/community. I genuinely don’t understand why you would allow that kind of community to migrate to your instance if you have a goal of building a safe space for queer people.
On a different note I specifically avoided blahaj when trying to find an instance to settle on cause I saw 196 was there, so I guess I dodged a bullet.
Highly recommend reading the actual article from which I assume the previous commenter got fear info from: https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/p/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes?
The article contains an interview with Naomi aswell.
Also as a slight correction the third strike could lead to years in prison according to the article, not a single year.
Oh I always take any reporting on China by western media with a grain of salt (the amount varying by the outlet in question). I haven’t quite made up my mind on Uighur thing as I haven’t had the time to properly research it myself (a lot of irl stuff going on) but I’m approaching the topic with scepticism.
I mainly linked the article for the interview and it’s description of the state of things for the lgbtq+ community in China which seems to be pretty similar to what an onilne friend from China described. Althoguh the language used around the topic and some of the conclusions (interpretations) in the article are pretty weird.
In retrospect I probably should’ve put a disclaimer that I don’t endorse the entirety of the article.
The word has effectively lost all meaning starting with neolib youtubers posing as leftists ( think Vaush etc). I’m an anarchist and got called a tankie for debunking propaganda against 20th century socialist projects. I have my critiques of the communist projects and leaders of the 20th century but apparently if I don’t buy CIA propaganda that makes me a tankie.
I definitely agree. The approach lemmy world took of catering to the reddit crowd and trying to become the biggest instance hosting all communities in one place was always doomed to create that sort of atmosphere. And open sign ups are a part of that issue. I spent a pretty long time on lemmy before making an account and settling on dbzer0 because it’s an anarchist instance. And people should’ve been encouraged to find an instance that’s right for them.
I’ve already blocked world since I’m using connect and my browsing experience is so much better again. The amount of reddit libs on .world is completely insufferable.
It’s disappointing but necessarily surprising tbh. China has been doing state capitalism for a while now.
As for your question these statistics aren’t necessarily contradictory to the idea of extreme poverty being reduced/eradicated. As this is basically a measure of wealth inequality, and while it might be worse than pre revolution, the standard of life is undoubtedly much higher. This is a result of China’s explosive economic growth, there is simply way more wealth in China than ever before. So a higher wealth inequality isn’t necessarily a good indicator of poverty. It is however an apt representation of the CCP’s economic policies over the past two decades and is a good indicator that poverty will rise once China’s growth slows down if wealth inequality isn’t addresed.