The first word they did this with was cis. This will keep happening and the attacks will get worse until people act. Leave Twitter
wow, so surprised. And after it being a complete tool for getting Trump elected too. Flabbergasted, I say.
I had to check if this wasn’t leaopardsatemyface.
I mean many use the n word between each other so that might be why an auto flag isn’t implemented ?
Not with a hard R they don’t.
If you ban one you also ban the other. The -a is a respelling of -er, basically the same word.
Oh yeah is that a rule you just invented?
It’s a respelling banning one without banning the other doesn’t make sense…
It only makes no sense if you completely remove any cultural context.
We don’t exist in a vacuum.
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… no. Also, white people are not victims of institutional racism. Cracker is, at worst, a mild insult.
Where is there anything to do with white ? I was talking about why n-a/er isn’t banned and how saying -er should be banned while keeping the -a variant doesn’t make sense. I am for freespeech to me nothing should be banned like that, i am by no means advocating for the cracker one.
Just admit you’re not American and have never stepped foot in America. Everyone - even the racists! - knows the difference.
Where did you get the idea that i was american ? Etymologically, the -a variant is a respelling of the -er which i believe is the original. This respelling is due to the “ghetto” spelling like gangaster->gangsta, same thing different pronunciation.
Exactly my point. You’re not American and don’t understand the cultural significance and should shut the fuck up about something you know nothing about.
Yeh, yeh, nop. Read a book, that might help you, a lot.
Sweetheart you’re commenting on American cultural issues with zero knowledge of American culture, trying to claim nigger and nigga as being the same thing.
You need to read a fucking book and sit your ass out of things that don’t concern you, not me.
She’s a straight up Nazi
No shit, I got that from the hard R.
She could also just have been extremely racist.
Let’s keep the distinction. So we can turn the racists against the fascists.
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I support your optimism but I seriously doubt anyone yelling the N word on Twitter is going to kick a Nazi out of bed for being too authoritarian.
Why would the racists and fascists turn on each other?
I have a feeling she takes black cock on the down low and doesn’t tell anyone
Yeah but she’s doing them a favor /s
That or she goons to it and is ashamed.
Next stop, a seat in Congress
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… isn’t that the wrong arm?
The guy on the right is mirrored, judging by the text on his shirt. I’m guessing she is, too.
Yeah, I didn’t expect them to understand that they’d have to mirror the image. That’s a bit too complex.
every day it gets more incredible to me that people are so fucking addicted to fake validation and fake likes from fake friends that they still use fucking twitter
Yeah! I like my fake validation and fake likes from anonymous friends over here on lemmy. Fake friends are overrated.
*cries in fake friend*
There’s a pretty big difference between drinking mild poisons at a Nazi bar and a local bar. Zoomed out, sure, drinking alcohol at all can be consistent pretty dubious, but the difference between the two scenarios remains.
Alcohol is a mild poison. Just sayin
That is literally how I described it, yes.
the secret is i don’t think anyone on lemmy is my friend. i find everyone here frustrating and annoying! the system works!
Damn,… Ruffalo looks young in this picture… then I realize, he was and we all got fuvking old. This was 13 years ago!!!
…hey. Stop that.
Respect the rules! We all pretend it’s still pretend 2005 was 4 years ago and 2014 was last year.
Bullshit! 1995 was 4 years ago. 2004 was last year.
Yep! Wait until you have kids that are older than your co-workers.
Source: My kids are older than many of my co-workers. It sucks.
The only way to fight it is to stay fit as fuck. Oh and retire early like I did. Takes some of the pain out of getting older!
Exactly my plan my friend! Why bother grinding if you can’t afford anything? Better grind less and live more.
Agreed. I basically took early retirement–I’m 55.
My pension is small since I bailed early, but I have zero debt, and very few bills, so I get by just fine. My kids are grown. My house and cars are paid off. Property taxes here are very low.
Sure, I won’t be traveling the world, but the park next to my house is beautiful, and I can see the mountains from my front porch. All is good.
Good luck to ya, mate!
I did that and “retired” to a ski resort in my mid 20s and pursued snowboarding instead. I’ve worked a variety of odd jobs to feed the habit and I’m lucky to be talented enough to be flowed gear.
If working a corporate 40 hr a week job that requires a degree doesn’t pay enough for me to move out of my moms house in NY and get an apt of my own somewhere nearby then fuck it, I’ll take some nonsense jobs and move to where I want and leave the grind entirely. My life is their $20k vacation. I’ve had more powder days than those rats in the race.
Wait how do you have coworkers as a retired person?
Not really. I mean I volunteer at the school where I worked, so I still count them as my coworkers… But since I don’t get paid, I guess technically they aren’t. But what would you call them?
The dumbass kid at work “I just use it for the art profiles I follow.” Not worth it kid, not worth it at all.
Ah yes… “art”.
He does a ton of digital art, so I generally believe him on that. He’s also pretty asexual so I don’t think he’s looking at porn. He’d be more likely to be looking at Fortnite skins.
Twitter is a weird platform for that
Yeah, naughtymachinima is a better platform for watching Fortnite skins
I learned a long time ago that for me, social media is an output. I drop it and leave it. I don’t fucking care who reads it, or if they liked it.
I was going to delete this, but I guessi already typed it
Exactly my thoughts
Nazis are sub human and shouldnt have rights
The only good nazi is a dead nazi
Or maybe a grammar nazi… But I’m not sure they count
Nah, they are necessary evil. (grammar ones)
“A” necessary evil. I know I was baited, and I don’t care.
When you use a slur, but also proper Grammar, it becomes harder to report.
jesus christ.
Don’t use state media.
Exactly the opposite lesson to take. We need public social media, not corporate social media. We need rights and guarantees, not profit taking and psyops.
It should be owned by the users and moderators, not the billionaires.
I like having a bunch of nonprofits because if one turns bad, I can switch. Your idea will work better if the state becomes controlled by the public.
States are never controlled by the public, or the working class, to be more precise.
States exists to protect the interest of oligarchs. Nothing more, nothing less.
Don’t use state media controlled by a single megalomaniac man-child.
Because the government of the US is very well known for letting dissenting voices have a soap box…
I think in 2025 the “rights and guarantees” you want aren’t going to be provided by state or corporate social. Defederated / self hosted is the way.
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Bro really wants to steal Truth Social’s userbase for more money. He found out that the left is a lot harder to scam.
Aka products of blue State education systems
Aka “brainwashed.”
There’s gotta be a way to own this word in a positive way; like yeah honestly uni did help me clean house on a lot of dirty habits and prejudices in my brain, what’s the issue?
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That’s a bit pedantic. App is used interchangeably to represent the whole platform.
I work as a SWE in a team with 15 year veterans at an App company that is a top 10 most downloaded on Android/iOS. We still use the word app this way in tech meetings.
Tech illiteracy
Also, Windows coined programs as apps, so pretty much any application may now be called app.
IOs application? -> App
VLC mediaplayer? -> App
Console videogame? -> App
Website? -> App
Calculator function on a smartwatch? -> App
The fully hardware-based light sensor that closes the blinds? -> App
My cat running to the bowl when I put new food in? -> Soon to be an App
You wouldn’t download a cat!
You don’t need to download a cat. They distribute themselves very well. It’s a feature. Try walking around with psspsspss coming out of your mouth and fancy snacks in your pockets and see what happens.
Cat downloads human in this case.
Potato skins loaded with cheese and bacon? -> App
Trying to download … stupid slow bandwidth! D’oh!
Your cat might see you as an app already!
A guy from South Africa made his app anti-black? Shocking.
The white guy who is only rich because of black oppression in South Africa, in fact.
Does this comment/joke assume all white South Africans are racist?
No. It simply states that it’s not surprising when one is.
That’s kinda bigoted
Oh no. White people being the target of bigotry? Welcome to the fucking club that they started.
that they started
Are you being serious lol
Yes.
Just calling out the double standard man. We don’t have to continue a bad practice.
Oh, so the oppressed aren’t allowed to dismantle their oppressors? They must rise above and be civil? They are the ones that must be kind and courteous to those who would subjugate them further?
What kind of bootlicker are you?
Are you fucking dumb?
Sir, you are bringing logic to a Lemmy thread where only emotion matters. It doesn’t seem to be going well for you frankly.
I don’t know why i still bother honestly; only to be labelled a fascist/Nazi once they’re done with the downvote bombing. It’s disgusting.
It’s flawed logic. Being kind and civil to one’s oppressors is literally further oppression.
Were you one of those people bitching about the 2020 George Floyd protests, too?
I’m a white guy from Indiana. And if Elon Musk was from Indiana and someone said, “a guy from Indiana made his app anti-black? Shocking.” I’d be like, “I know, right? This state is full of racist as fuck white people.” I wouldn’t be offended.
But he’s not from Indiana though. The point I’m trying to make is that the commenter posed an unfair stereotype which suggested that white South Africans are proclived to racism even though there are no facts to support that argument. There is however evidence to suggest that Indianans or Idahoans or whatever other white inhabitants of famously racist US states are proclived to racism.
Do you see my point?
You’re right, he’s from an even more racist place. So I’m not sure why you think that’s an unfair stereotype when it is a fair one for a U.S. state that never had apartheid or slavery.
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You know South Africa had(has?) apartheid, right? Culturally, yes, they are proclived to racism.
edit: yeah it ended in 1990(1994?). Lmao. Within the last 30 years they were an apartheid state.
It’s bigoted to invade a county and extort them for labor because you believe the native population to be inferior.
I know. It is also bigoted to say you’re not surprised by a white South African being racist. That’s like saying you’re not surprised by an black African American being a criminal.
No it fucking isn’t
Yes it is. You’re making a judgement about both groups based on the colour of their skin
Also, I wouldn’t frame it the way you framed it, but I don’t think it is racist to say “I’m not surprised by a Black American having a criminal record”. Not because Black Americans are predisposed to crime, but because they are targeted by overpolicing and system racism lmao.
Edit: 1/7ish Black American Men have been to prison. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5996985/#%3A~%3Atext=We+estimate+that+3+%25+of%2CAfrican+American+adult+male+population.
We had to invent a new term to describe the racism of white south Africans, they’ve earned a little suspicion.
you’re the guy who said that we can’t say the police is a racist organization because there are black cops. I wouldn’t be too involved in race conversations if I were you tbh.
I admit that one might have been a bad take in hindsight, but my stance is unshakeable on this issue
Why do people even get offended by cracker lmaooo. That’s such a whack front.
It means you’re originally from Florida, so…
Being able to disregard being called “cracker” is itself a form of white privilege. As a white guy, I don’t have to care if some black person expresses hatred against me because I have power that they do not (e.g. they’re not likely to act on their hatred because if the police are called they’re likely to take my side, etc.). The implied threat is not credible.
In contrast, black people do not have the freedom to ignore white people calling them the n-word, because historically that has been accompanied by a real risk of attack. The likelihood may have waned over the years, but that implied threat remains credible. (That goes double for the fact that, as casual/mainstream use of the word has fallen out of favor, those still willing to use it are all the more extreme/violent-tempered.)
This is exactly how systemic racism works. White people weren’t kept as slaves and called ‘cracker’ as a label. Black people were kept as slaves and called the N word as a label. The implication, via the word, is that they were less-than-human. We’re just about back to the time period where lawmakers openly use the N word again. I’m in Canada, yet even from here I can see it happening, and it’s terrifying for me, so I can’t imagine what it’s like for American people of colour, or women, or 2SLGBTQIA+, etc.
If you are one of those people, whomever is reading this, just know you have allies.
Being able to disregard being called “cracker” is itself a form of white privilege
No it means I’m not offended by every stupid shit some cringelord says online.
As another lifelong beneficiary of white privilege, thank you for pointing this out. I never considered this perspective.
THIS!!! THIS IS WHY YOU NEED EDUCATION AND SAFETY! PEOPLE WANT TO LEARN AND DO BETTER!
Let me add one. People that don’t look like us think before they speak in meetings. They are scrutinized constantly and often afraid. We can ask a colleague “hey not straight white guy, you’re interested or expert in XYZ, and haven’t shared your input, what do you think?”
Making space can be that micro and so impactful.
Same with Alpha Snowflakes who get triggered by words like cis.
Which makes zero sense. Because cis is exactly what he claims to be. It’s not pejorative to say someone is a heterosexual?
They should already be offended by someone using ‘fuck’
I have used it sarcastically on news@world and got it mod deleted.
I guess it’s white fragility masked as fairness/equity.
It’s actually got nothing to do with race, it’s because of a lack of proper capitalisation and punctuation… right? It surely isn’t racism?
