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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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in case you wondered when Grimes was going to go full Nazi (twitter.com)
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I'm called a Nazi because I happily am proud of white culture. But every day I think fondly of the brown king Cyrus the Great who invented the first ever empire, and the Japanese icon Murasaki Shikibu who wrote the first novel ever. What if humans just loved each other? History teaches us that we have all been, and always will be - great

read the whole thread, her responses are even worse

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I understand how "white" become the word for a sort of assumed racial default, but it's really annoying to have to play this weird motte-and-bailey when people don't understand or pretend not to understand that whiteness is not about skin pigmentation and never was. Wanna check my skin on a Pantone chart againts Hitler's and then guess which one of us he thought was merely an "honorary aryan"?

I wish we had a better word for it.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

"Italian" was excluded from "white" in the US in living memory

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

I mean, we don't consider Italians white too over here, but we also don't think there's some kind of "white culture". I'm Flemish and that's my culture, and it's definitely not the same as any other Western European culture.