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I find the article very hard to believe. It sets off warning bells earlier, but then the description of the Black Love Matters page seems to be way too crazy to
by jnordwick 9y ago
I find the article very hard to believe. It sets off warning bells earlier, but then the description of the Black Love Matters page seems to be way too crazy to believe. You mean they literally banned a page that simply posted pictures of families?
"Last year, a page called Black Love Matters, which highlighted black families, posted a picture of a couple cradling their child. The image was removed from Facebook and the page’s administrators received a message saying the picture violated Facebook’s “community standards.” Facebook also unpublished the entire Black Love Matters page."
I guess it could happen, and I have no evidence to the contrary. I know there are some really obnoxious, hateful people out there, but that seems a little too unbelievable that it brings me to doubt much of the rest of the article too. The entire article lack any substantiation of the claims, and with all the different moderators, there is going to be inconsistency, but many of the stories, if they were reversed, we immediately see the difference:
White Person: I posted something with "She's just being a nigger." in a comment and it was removed. Can you all post the same thing and see what happens?
Black Friends: Yeah. We didn't have ours removed.
The context of why says what and when is also important and I feel the article doesn't do a good job of providing that context. Some of the stories are just a little too far fetched.
This doesn't help her case either: "Pellegren has received multiple suspensions." Contrary to what the article says, it sounds like the mods are taking context into account, name the person posting has a history of making poor taste comments so they are getting a little tired of her.
UPDATE: Her post to FB that was removed has this lovely line in it: "At some point, you much come to terms with your ancestral role in creating the very concept of racism." Whites created racism? Any sympathy I might have had just evaporated.
- vkou 9y ago> Whites created racism? Any sympathy I might have had just evaporated. Yes, our ancestors created racism as it is currently practiced in the West. Chaining up an entire generation of people, bringing them over an ocean, and telling them and their grand-children (And our grand-children, so that we don't forget to remind them) that they aren't human kind of covers that.
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- Tade0 9y agoI'm afraid you would not enjoy learning some facts of ancient and modern world history. In short: racism and slavery existed since time immemorial. Only recently western culture started doing something about it.
- metaphorm 9y agomy ancestors? no, I'm sorry, I'm quite sure my ancestors were living in shtetls in Eastern Europe and had nothing whatever to do with the Atlantic Slave Trade. "white" as a category is just as non-sensical as "black" as a category. these are very course labels for phenotypes and say very little about a person's ancestry or heritage. When I meet a black person today, in New York City where I live, I don't know if they are the descendant of American slaves or if they are a 1st gen immigrant from Nigeria. The only sensible thing to do is treat people as individuals and judge them by their own actions.