based cowbee

thanks for bringing awareness to this, now that i’m informed i should not use these terms because that’d make me a bigot instead of ignorant.

a lot of everyday words or even slang can be described as offensive or racist if the listener deems them this way - or because the history of certain words is rooted in racism.

you wanna tell the whole linux community that “ricing” is an offensive term?

you wanna tell marxists that quote “it’s either socialism or barbarism” that the term “barbarian” is a racist term used by romans?

you wanna tell polish boomers that they shouldn’t say “a jew hung himself” to refer to windy weather?

a miniscule amount of people think about the racial or xenophobic implications because certain things are too ingrained in society.

keep the spirit up, you go guys, but these things won’t go away for the next few generations.

stuff like this just fuels infighting with no real goal. - fighting actual racism and systemic racism. getting hung up on unimportant details will just alienate people who’d be sympathetic to the cause.

we also likely live in different societies so we have different approaches to how racism is perceived. this discourse reeks of being american.

everyone will feel offended at anything you say.

nice example of a philippino person being offended by it.

if i told my philippino friend abt it he’d dismiss these concerns.

different strokes for different folks.

bottom line: playing word police is problematic in itself.

just don’t be a dick and you’re good.

the neat thing about lemmy is: i can freely say elon musk is a pedophile protector and ketamine addicted loner. i hope he overdoses and his death will be celebrated

1st time: no idea - got shadowbanned 2nd time: laughing at charlie kirk

you got me a good chunk of stuff i need to research. thx

i´m asking myself the same tbf

the shit i started wasn´t supposed to be directed at cowbee, i got heated and i own up to my mistake. we settled it and realized we actually agree in many places.

we actually have the same viewpoint on that. thank you for accepting my apology. i own up to my mistake, i deleted some of my comments as per your advice so moderation doesn´t have to.

maybe i´m in the wrong but in my research i came to this conclusion: after the fall of the ussr the russian federation didn´t really jive with the idea of it´s neighbouring country being independent. they invaded chechnia and georgia. as a response other neighbouring countries were like “fuck that” and joined NATO for their own security. russia interprets that as aggressive nato expansion which is just one of the reasons why they invaded. the other reasons are as officially stated: -ukraine needs to be denazified -russia wants to save russian speakers from whatever -putin claims ukraine is not a real country

nato propaganda is “we need to send tons of arms so ukrainians can defend their country” but even if they defend it it´s gonna end like this: ukraine - a country with a gdp of 42 billion $ in 2014 took up soo much debt it could never repay it after the war. it´s gonna privatize all assets, multinational corporations come in and swoop everything the state can offer. ukraine will be denied entry into the eu. ukraine will be a financial slave to the imf, america and the eu and it´s gonna get exploited for cheap labour while ukrainians will be treated as 2nd class world citizens due to their non-eu passport.

i got heated up. i apologize if i made assumptions about you. my point still stands: russia is spreading misinfo like crazy and OP keeps reposting it.

i gotta admit my mistake. my anger was directed at OP. apparently i don´t know how lemmy works.

i know my solution is unrealistic. but for the regular worker it just doesn´t matter whether they are wage slaves for an indebted country where western corporations buy all privatized assets or live in an oligarch-led state. the regular worker just doesn´t want to get bombed or get caught in crossfire. the war must end no matter the outcome or which side has to make which concessions.

no lol. fuck NATO.

i gotta apologize my anger was directed at op. gotta learn how lemmy works.

my frustration was directed at jackeroni. probably got something mixed up. i don´t know cowbee or his views and i can´t judge him :)

the dissolution of the ussr was the biggest historic disaster in the past 50 years.

i don´t understand how it´s related to this.

who said i don´t oppose it? i want to see the us government and it´s military industrial complex burn to free the world from it´s hegemony and the dollar standard. if i say “russia is bad” i´m not implying “NATO is good”

is everything black and white in your world?

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