homo stultens @mediocreape@qoto.org
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@ZhiZhu @JuliusGoat This is a deliberate tactic: shifting the Overton Window. Getting people *used to thinking about* whether x-group of people should be abused and expelled is the initial purpose of insisting there is a discussion to be had.
free-floating xenophobia/xenomisia
@NerdyKeith@mstdn.social 'correcting' whoever these folk are implies they're doing it inadvertently. I suspect many who like the term toss this insult about because in most cases their views on the LGBTQ community are tied up with fundamental religious values and they genuinely consider any member of that community to be at best guilty of 'moral' perversion, and at worst *do* literally equate the two.
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Liao Yiwu: "a female student dressed in black wearing a black mask held up a piece of blank white paper in front of her chest and stood silently before the steps of the Drum Tower at the center of the Nanjing Communication University campus. A cold wind was blowing, but she remained motionless as a statue. After a while, a political counselor ran over and took the blank paper from her hands. A passer-by asked, "Blank paper is no threat. Why take it away?"
The student remained motionless, holding the superfluous "blank paper" in both her hands."
@JonKramer @LouisIngenthron @freemo Thanks, i appreciate hearing that. I admit i suspect i'm being a bit of a smartass in my use of human exceptionalism in that sense. I mean it in the sense of "homo sapiens has a tendency to accept, without question, conceptual constructs existing exclusively as electrical signals in a few pounds of wet meat they cart around internally as objective and accurate reflections of a 'material reality'".
There's really no other way to be unless one plans on the hardline apporach of reasoning one's way from first principles up to "cogito ergo sum" every morning when you discover 'consciousness', but I intend to at least be aware of the fact that 'the world' is a story we tell ourselves and each-other.
@LouisIngenthron @freemo @JonKramer I broadly agree, in that 'race' isn't a legitimate material category, but a by-product of one of the core functions of homo sapiens' prefrontal cortex (reducing the cognitive load of stimulus by implementing a system of memory and pattern recognition, the outcome of which is inevitably bias), which has been mistakenly reified as a term describing a materially real thing because human exceptionalism. The difference is that to me it appears a strong argument as to why it is *inappropriate* to use the word 'race' except in the explicit context you've used it, the explication of 'race' as a reductive mechanism, rather than a useful category.
@LouisIngenthron @freemo @JonKramer to put it another way, because human exceptionalism?
@LouisIngenthron @freemo it is anti-Semitic, but not antisemitic. The former refers to the Semitic group, the latter refers to the historical prejudice against people with 'Jewish' ethnocultural identity.
@freemo @JonKramer @LouisIngenthron Are humans the only species for which it is appropriate to use the word 'race'? If so, why?
Only asking because I'm hoping to provide a bit of balance to the 'day of the rope' discourse.
Can you say "kill whitey" on qoto? Obviously not in a literal 'advocacy of race-based murder' sense, but in the 60s counterculture 'kill the policeman in your head' sense?
Questioning others teaches us only to reinforce our own biases.
Question *ourselves* to teach ourselves.
@freemo the literal definition of 'Semitic' refers to contemporary ethnonationalities which share a root in the ancient Semitic family of language groups. The meaning of 'antisemitic' uses the sadly more common definition of 'semitic', which was popularised by German nationalist pseudoscientists and philosophers to negatively contrast "the semites" to the 'superior' aryan races. To be correct in your usage, anti-Semitisim would refer to antipathy towards contemporary ethonationalities which share a root in the ancient Semitic family of language groups which does indeed incorporate many Arabic and African ethnonationalities, but "antisemitism" refers to the more specific historical context of specific anti-Jewish sentiment. The elision of the historical context is a common trope of antisemetic rhetoric, along with 'well, actually, hitler was jewish".
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