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[–] 5in1k@lemm.ee 51 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I got several comments deleted on .ml for insulting bitch ass pooh bear Xi, even called racist as if dictator is a race.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Dictators tend to be psychopaths. I wonder if we can call psychopaths a race.

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

If after the following steps:

  1. Get 2 Psychopaths to make a baby (let's call this subject A).
  2. Take subject A at birth and nurture it in an environment previously proven to not create psychopaths.
  3. Test subject A after a threshold age.

Get statistical data.

If result:

  1. subject A is psychopath with 99% + confidence, then psychopaths are a race.
  2. subject A is psychopath with < 99% confidence, then psychopaths are NOT a race.

Just to be clear, I will not endorse this study.

[–] antidote101@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It's already been shown that psychopaths can live relatively normal lives when given proper treatment. There's even a story of one such brain researcher (James Fallon) finding out his own brain structures in an MRI result showed a tendency to psychopathy, even though he was a fairly average man who was conducting such a study.

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 7 months ago

In that case, wouldn't we want to say, instead, that the researcher's environment was such that he developed mild tendencies towards psychopathy, but not enough to be socially relevant.
I would go so far to say that the average person has a tendency to psychopathy, considering the social state of our civilisation.

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Homo Sapiens seems to be a fine term

Homo Neanderthalensis were chill

[–] daltotron@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

yeah I think generally the reasoning around it being a racial insult is that winnie the pooh is yellow

[–] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Are Asians considered to be yellow or something?

I only think of emojis, the Simpsons, and LEGO characters.

[–] daltotron@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Are Asians considered to be yellow or something?

I mean yeah that's a pretty infamous kind of racialized portrayal that you'll see in like old propaganda cartoons or whatever.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

While good on you, it is definitely a classic racist terminology. People who refer to Xi as Pooh should probably be aware of it.

[–] 5in1k@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It’s because they’re both fat and have similar faces though. I never considered yellow. The Chinese use Pooh to make fun too. So I don’t think it actually meant racially.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe so. For many Pepe was just a frog.

I don't find much value in those kinds of portrayals to begin with, so I have a pretty low bar for defending their use.

[–] 5in1k@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

The only reason I use it is that it’s banned speech that is banned because it specifically hurts the feelings of a dictator enough to ban it. That is a huge plus for using Pooh Bear for me. Everyone should be able to call their leaders a shithead.