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(If I'm missing something, I'd be grateful for a correction. I don't want to hold wrong beliefs, especially ones that make me more cynical.) Here's my (current
by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
(If I'm missing something, I'd be grateful for a correction. I don't want to hold wrong beliefs, especially ones that make me more cynical.)
Here's my (current) reasoning, explained by example:
(1) Twitch's new rules ban display of the Confederate flag for this reason: "Given its historic and symbolic association with slavery and white supremacist groups in the US".
(2) I'm assuming that Twitch's general reasoning is: "Displaying symbol ${S}, which [some subgroup of humans, selected by an unspecified criterion] ${G} associate with bad-thing ${B} and supremacist group ${R}, will be treated as Hateful Conduct."
(3) Assuming that I've correctly inferred Twitch's reasoning in (2), then here are some real-world examples that I think also meet their reasoning's criteria:
(3a) S="Israeli flag", G="Arabs living in Israel", B="Denying national rights to non-Jews", R="Israeli government". (See [0] below)
(3b) S="PRC flag", G="Uyghers living in PRC", B="religious persecution", R="Non-muslims in control of PRC government." (See [1] below)
(3c) S="Islamic crescent-and-star symbol", G="some Christians living in Muslim countries", B="religious persecution", G="The persons in power who use ${S} and do ${B}". (See [2,3] below; also backed by personal knowledge.)
(3d) S="Political symbols of the U.S. Democratic party", B="advocacy of black slavery", G="black slaves prior to the U.S. civil war".
(3e) S="Political symbols of the U.S. Republican party", G/B/R left as an exercise to the reader. (I'm not trying to pick on Republicans more than Democrats; it's just that the post is getting long and I need to do my day job.)
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law:_Israel_as_the_Nation-State_of_the_Jewish_People#:~:text=It%20is%20the%20most%20important,which%20the%20state%20was%20established%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law:_Israel_as_the_Natio....
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghurs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghurs
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians
[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48146305 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48146305
- user-the-name 6y agoNot "historic association". "Current association".