All I did was point out facts and perspectives you seem to have missed. I thought we were having a constructive conversation in good faith, and was giving you the benefit of the doubt. I'm sorry to see that wasn't the case.
LostWon
joined 1 year ago
The reason it seems "muddled" to you is likely because bigotry itself is based in ignorance.
Many people just accept and absorb what they've heard or seen in cartoons and popular media while growing up, lumping different groups of people together based on oversimplifications and misrepresentations of who they are. The assumptions on which people base their Islamophobia are quite racist, conflating Arab identity (which people think they know by a person's appearance based on racist stereotypes) with Islam. The point is to be able to identify the bigotry for what it is.
If you try to define a form bigotry by the actual reality it's misrepresenting, you'll miss the bigotry itself.
Islamophobia is a type of racism. Brown people who aren't even muslim (like Sikhs) often get caught up in it, precisely because the ignorance that fuels it is based in racism.
So we argue that “Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness”
I thought it was "duck, and cover"
So the algorithm has calibrated your feed to your personal preferences, just as it does for everyone else. Good for you.
Meanwhile for anyone wondering,
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regular creators are having all kinds of problems with everything from changes to misleading and unfavourable monetization schemes to managing comments on their vids,
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political creators aren't only having their content ignored when they meet thresholds that would propel non-political vids to be promoted (with often the very same person's record of political and non-political vids that are more commercially viable showing this difference), they're being silenced with strikes for "unoriginal content,"
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users presumably who use the phone app (which I don't, lol) are complaining of increasing ads,
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and everyone who tries to speak out against hate speech/bullying/harassment/trolls somehow gets punished for defending themselves.
What a fun environment! So not a hot mess at all /s
Looks like "clock app" (as many call it) is shifting into the final stage of its enshittification process, if even business partnerships are being blown off. No doubt many on here will be reflexively happy about that but it's really just sad to me every time I see potential wasted in any form.
What is clear now is that the very weapons that Israeli forces have used to enforce a blockade of Gaza over the past 17 years are now being used against them. Israeli and American military explosives have enabled Hamas to shower Israel with rockets and, for the first time, penetrate Israeli towns from Gaza.
“Unexploded ordnance is a main source of explosives for Hamas,” said Michael Cardash, the former deputy head of the Israeli National Police Bomb Disposal Division and an Israeli police consultant. “They are cutting open bombs from Israel, artillery bombs from Israel, and a lot of them are being used, of course, and repurposed for their explosives and rockets.”
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/where-hamas-getting-weapons-increasingly-160335631.html
From an older piece with more context:
The Iranian narrative is that they kick-started all the missile production in Gaza and gave them the technical and knowledge base, but now the Palestinians are self-sufficient, said Fabian Hinz, an independent security analyst focusing on missiles in the Mideast.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-05-20/hamas-amass-arsenal-rockets-strike-israel
Also:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/much-of-hamas-explosives-comes-from-idf-fire-that-failed-to-detonate-report/
(There's also a NY Times article with a similar headline to the Yahoo! one, but it's paywalled.)
From what I've heard in reporting, they build rockets from parts of unexploded Israeli bombs. Over the last 4 months, I have no doubt they've found a few duds and accumulated the material with which to hack these things together.
Take this!
Why do I get the impression that blep is daring me to do something?
That's the case here in Canada, and on top of that it was revealed a year ago that many stores were secretly sending in-person/brick-and-mortar purchase data directly to Facebook/Meta without notifying anyone. Because they get a kickback or something, iirc. (I have to check again but I'm pretty sure that even applies if you have no FB account.)
edit to add source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/retailers-sharing-data-meta-1.6737484
The political ones are new. The others have worsened.