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Notices by Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com), page 47
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Rationalism is its own beast. It started with examining logical fallacies which I liked, I also enjoyed the effective altruism aspect of it and then it veered into utter nonsense with AI risk and now happiness maximizing where they managed to get away from caring about actual people.
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I can’t take Rationalism seriously anymore since literally the same people who were afraid of a runaway AI killing us all (the infamous Paperclip Maximizer) are now supplying billionaires justifications to let us all die to maximize the happiness of digital beings yet to exist.
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I'm mindful about power dynamics with regard to discriminated minorities so I don't hold a grudge with people who don't respect me because I'm a white cissexual heterosexual man or any subset of these, they unfortunately have very good reasons for it and I can take it in my privileged position.
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Bringing in the heat(er).
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I'm saying cultural appropriation has a specific definition in the larger racism theme and shouldn't be wielded that freely at the risk of losing its meaning.
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I'm not sure where the historicisation characterization comes from since I mentioned that "the rest of the world who doesn't have a direct power struggle with indigenous Americans" which is very current and ongoing.
If I mention colonization, it's only because its effects are still ongoing, not because I'd like to reduce the question to a past that could be considered passed.
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Agreed, and that's precisely the discussion I wanted to start in my original post.
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Of course, and as long as they keep this kind of act in Japan, they don't have to care too much about it. But if they take it anywhere in North America, it would be extremely insensitive.
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I do agree with you, but again the context matters. If this idol band dresses like this in Japan, I believe it is much less of a problem.
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I'm not saying these costumes were cool or appropriate, I'm saying they weren't cultural appropriation. And while I agree about the anti-indigenous racism packaged as a US cultural export, it's mainly a problem with the US, not so much with the rest of the world who doesn't have a direct power struggle with indigenous Americans.
I believe making it a worldwide problem obscures the specific responsibility of Europeans and the United States in both suppressing and appropriating indigenous culture.
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I believe Asian people aren't the audience for this message but white people in North America.
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I’ve seen twice in the past couple days anti-discrimination rhetoric pushed to the point of meaninglessness. They weren’t too extreme, they just missed the entire point.
The first went like this: anyone dressing in another culture’s traditional garment (in this case, a Japanese idol band dressed as indigenous Americans) is performing culture appropriation. The second went like this: any exercise-like activity (in this case, a VR rhythm game) is an instance of fatphobia.
In either case the relevant concept exists, but the blanket statement strips them of their meaning by only caring about symptoms and not the causes.
Cultural appropriation was conceived exclusively in the context of colonization. Given that white people colonized most of the world, they are extremely likely to perform culture appropriation, but it doesn’t apply evenly to non-white people, even if the costumes themselves are in bad taste.
In the same vein, exercise as a way to lose weight has often been suggested to people by doctors instead of performing actual medical diagnostic because of their bias against body weight, but exercise itself is good for everybody regardless of their weight.
I have absolutely no doubt that both these people are well-intentioned and believe they are fighting against cultural appropriation or fatphobia as hard as they can. But they end up missing the point, either unintentionally or because it is uncomfortable for them to grasp with colonization, medical malpractice or exercising.
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“I’ve worked [shitty job] and now I’m nice to [relevant working-class people]”
I’ve never worked any of these jobs and yet I’ve never been mean to working-class people, is empathy that hard?
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This comic has been displayed in my office for more than 10 years now, and while IE 6 is thankfully no more and Mozilla sold out and made Firefox into an online window into their questionable partnerships, Chrome stayed true to the middle panel.
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Please stop referring to the Stockholm Syndrome. It was entirely made up by a male psychologist embroiled in a conflict of interest instead of just listening to a woman. #Sexism
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Be safe out there, folks. #Pride #LGBTQ #InfoSec
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#VideoGames #MiniReview I just finished Hardspace: Shipbreaker at a marathon pace (50h in 10 days) and it’s a really good game with a worthwhile political content to boot. If you like puzzles, space simulations, engineering and/or unions, this game is for you.
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Opening scene, floor-level close-up shot of a car crawling down to a stop, the front door opens, the driver puts a foot on the ground, revealing a pink bunny skipper.
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So the reparations should consist of a few acres of farm land and an uncle that can tend to them, got it. 😜
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What I meant is that working these few acres of land would most likely be a full-time job, if anything because everything you suggested requires specific knowledge and skill. If these activities don't provide a living income, then it's a bad trade-off and the land would likely stay unworked as a result.
I'm not sure there is an absolute reparations dollar amount that could be universally considered fair, but again, it shouldn't be an argument against providing reparations. Anything would be better than nothing.
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