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I am happy that you have not experienced this kind of adversity in your personal life. There is no reason, however, why your personal experience should be gener
by greenpresident 6y ago
I am happy that you have not experienced this kind of adversity in your personal life. There is no reason, however, why your personal experience should be generalised to the population/world.
>stomping out these fake narratives.
Why is it desirable to temporarily take some website down instead of presenting a strong and coherent counter argument.
- krapp 6y agoDon't feed the trolls. This is coming from a ten minute old green account.
- eropple 6y agoIn addition to green usernames, a pretty common tell is the "Latin"(-ish) username. The white supremacist segment of the population loves it some Rome. It is by no means indicative, but over time, if you pay attention, you end up with a bunch of heuristics that can help you identify good-faith arguments versus malicious ones.
- krapp 6y agoUsernames ending in 88 is another one. Or maybe those are all really just Dallas Cowboys fans.
- SAI_Peregrinus 6y agoThe really funny bit with the 88 == HH bit is that it's taking Gematria values of the German alphabet and assigning significance to the resulting number. IE a Jewish technique (from the Zohar & Hebrew numeral system) of converting letters into numbers. I suppose IIXIIX is too long.
- Covzire 6y agoWe have to start avoiding latin names in things now? Fuck that. Are you sure you're not generalizing a bit too much?
- krapp 6y agoFeel free to stand in line behind the people upset that white supremacists ruined the swastika (for half the planet), the toothbrush mustache, Norse mythology, American conservatism, the name Adolf, social media, leather trenchcoats, and various numbers and memes and direct your outrage at the proper target when your number is called.
- eropple 6y agoAssuming you are saying this in good faith--EDIT: and, speaking of heuristics, I looked at your posting history and I will confess to some skepticism about the assumption but somebody who has the same question in a more genuine way may be curious as to the answer!--there are a whole lot of white-supremacist dirtbags out there and they want to hurt decent people and, more importantly, waste their time and energy. That makes good filters important because otherwise they will sap your time and energy and make you less effective at the things you want to be effective at. Things like these are heuristics; they help you filter down the garbage. When you see consistent results when some dude with a Latin name (especially an obvious new account) comes into your mentions Just Asking Question over and over again, you, y'know--notice. Puffy Latin names, anime avatars, new accounts, that kind of thing? One is not necessarily a tell. More may be, and depending on how much of that you see, you may need to tailor your filter to accept false negatives 'cause the alternative is to get brainworms. (For an example of what is not a heuristic, consider 1488 or "Deus vult"--that's just racist agitprop.)
- rsynnott 6y agoMis-spelt Latin, at that!
- OctaviusGaeus 6y agoI’m willing to wager the number of websites about “BLM” disproportionately outnumbers those saying something like “ALM”. It’s always one narrative, and it’s always on repeat.