Earlier. Manifest Destiny was the inspiration for Nazi ideology.
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Dreamer@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.ml•BiliBili - Popular chinese video streaming site - going global creating competition to youtube
0·1 month agoFinding an unbiased take on China’s treatment of the Ughyurs is neigh impossible. However, reading Chinese law involving the state’s legal definition of extremism does not inspire much confidence.
https://youtu.be/cz9ICFDk8Js?t=510
(7) Wearing, or compelling others to wear, burqas with face coverings, or to bear symbols of extremification
Did the French infiltrate the Chinese government? A lot of the attitudes towards Ughyurs really is reminiscent of the Western attitudes towards the Natives in the Americas. The Europeans saw themselves as culturally superior and civilized, so they took it upon themselves to “educate” the indigenous. Do you believe that there exists any peoples that are truly above some sort of exceptionalism, or is this false pride just a part of human nature?
Granted, even the video linked and its evidence were from five years ago. Lots might have changed since then.
Dreamer@lemmy.mlto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Edward Snowden interview: 'Smartphones can be taken over' by GCHQ using activation programs
0·2 months agoThat makes sense. It definitely takes a certain kind of privilege to be able to live with and afford such a blissfully ignorant stance.
Dreamer@lemmy.mlto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Edward Snowden interview: 'Smartphones can be taken over' by GCHQ using activation programs
0·2 months agoI am not the original commenter. This comment asking “why” was before the OP commenter “both-sides” the genocide with “muh khamas”.
At the time, OP commenter was just talking about Israeli spyware using BDS as a source while also letting us know they are uninformed about the genocide and thus don’t have a stance. My understanding was that this was to deflect any criticism or accusations from Zionists for being biased.
While it is not ideal, there are a million reasons why someone may be ignorant on a conflict, atrocity, phenomenon, etc. It could be willfull ignorance, it could be that their environment does everything possible to keep them ignorant; regardless, until I know the reason, I cannot judge them.
What matters to me more is how they act with said ignorance. In this case, they initially said they are very poorly informed aka “I don’t know”. Instead of talking about what they don’t know (genocide, settler-colonial conflict, Zionism, etc), they only spoke about what they do know (Israeli spyware).
I think this is fine, especially since those who know they are ignorant and refuse to speak on what they don’t know are generally open to learn or have any misconceptions corrected. I also have very low expectations of Amerikkkans from the land of the burger, home of the fries.
This all is to say, this is why I was asking “why”. My mind was focused on the spyware, and I was wondering why another commenter didn’t like it. Was the information inaccurate?
Since then, a lot of other commenters responded–I now understand why they take issue with the OP comment, though I believed the initial responses were unnecessarily harsh. However, the OP commenter, despite knowing full well their ignorance, dropped the “muh khamas” shitter nuke, so…
Dreamer@lemmy.mlto
science@lemmy.world•Your brain was never designed for this much bad newsEnglish
0·3 months agoMaybe if we stopped letting bad things happen, there wouldn’t be so much bad news.
They seem to still believe in the discredited Biden era philosophy that if you simply do good things people will notice.
Good things like supporting genocidal ethnostates or signing bills to make worker strikes illegal?


That is just killings against communists. That is not equal to killings under capitalist states.
Injustices such as the Ludlow would not fall under the former as the victims were not communists. They were workers seeking better wages and conditions under a capitalist system.