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"Black power" being blocked but "white power" not is pretty grim.

minikites 6y ago
It's because white people are incredibly sensitive regarding any threat, no matter how weak, to their cultural and political hegemony. Look at white America's reaction to Colin Kapernick's initial silent protest.
- bitcharmer 6y ago
  This is a pretty racist thing to say.
abstractbarista 6y ago
All I want is equality; either block both, or block neither. As a user, I can guarantee I hate all ads equally, but also put up with all equally, because I'm too cheap to pay.
- MereInterest 6y ago
  "White power" is a phrase used to enshrine social inequality and promote violence against minorities. "Black power" is a phrase used to stand against social inequality and to resist that violence. These are not equivalent terms. One is the rallying call of violent aggression and pogroms, while the other is a defense against that. Painting the two phrases as equivalent ignores the social context behind each of them.
  - frob 6y ago
    It's times like these that remind me of my very favorite Bill Buckley quote: "That is like saying that the man who pushes a little old lady into the path of a bus is morally equivalent to the man who pushes her out of its path, because they both push little old ladies around." I may disagree with the guy in many ways, but that's a fine quote.
- tekromancr 6y ago
  This is a bad take. "White power" is a call for supremacy. "Black power" is a call for equity and solidarity. Conflating the two by saying that blocking both or allowing both would be "equality" is.. Mind you, I've only been awake for half an hour; but it's definitely the worst take I have read so far today.
  - MereInterest 6y ago
    For a while there was an internet game going around where you would give a deliberately vague and ambiguous description, then use it to imply similarity for the sake of invoking cognitive dissonance in the reader. For example, "A small group of rag-tag rebels strike at the empire that brought war to them, bringing down a mighty symbol of that empire. Am I describing Star Wars Episode 4, or the 9/11 attacks?". When done for humor sake, these can be rather amusing. abstractbarista's comment is a political attack along the same lines. By drawing an equivalence between the phrases "white power" and "black power", there is the implicit statement that the two are morally equivalent, which is by no means the case. They then follow-up by saying that since the two are equivalent, they should be treated the same. It's a bait and switch, where the syntactic similarity is used to imply semantic similarity where no such semantic similarity exists.
unanswered 6y ago
"Black power" is associated with a political ideology shared by tens of millions of people across the US. "White power" is associated with a political ideology shared by dozens of people across the US. If we discover that phrases associated with Cthulhu cults and flying spaghetti monster adherents are likewise not blocked, it's probably not because Google is secretly promoting those religions. But with the publication of this article "white power" no doubt increases in popularity as an ad targeting term, so Google has to add it. There's absolutely nothing surprising or nefarious going on here.
- minikites 6y ago
  >"White power" is associated with a political ideology shared by dozens of people across the US. You might want to check your numbers. There are a lot of real deal white supremacists in the USA and they're growing stronger: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/episode/2010/9/30/white-power-usa-2 https://www.aljazeera.com/program/episode/2010/9/30/white-po...
  - everythunhuz 6y ago
    Everything that doesn't agree with Critical Race Theory is white supremacist. That's why when black people kill Asians in the US it's because of white supremacy. Black people are forced to kill Asians because of the history of slavery and individuals are merely pawns in the great race struggle, incapable of independent thought or action. That's why prisons should be abolished. At least that's what the Justice Democrats and Black Lives Matter believe
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It's because white people are incredibly sensitive regarding any threat, no matter how weak, to their cultural and political hegemony. Look at white America's reaction to Colin Kapernick's initial silent protest.

bitcharmer 6y ago
This is a pretty racist thing to say.

abstractbarista 6y ago

All I want is equality; either block both, or block neither. As a user, I can guarantee I hate all ads equally, but also put up with all equally, because I'm too cheap to pay.

MereInterest 6y ago
"White power" is a phrase used to enshrine social inequality and promote violence against minorities. "Black power" is a phrase used to stand against social inequality and to resist that violence. These are not equivalent terms. One is the rallying call of violent aggression and pogroms, while the other is a defense against that. Painting the two phrases as equivalent ignores the social context behind each of them.
- frob 6y ago
  It's times like these that remind me of my very favorite Bill Buckley quote: "That is like saying that the man who pushes a little old lady into the path of a bus is morally equivalent to the man who pushes her out of its path, because they both push little old ladies around." I may disagree with the guy in many ways, but that's a fine quote.
tekromancr 6y ago
This is a bad take. "White power" is a call for supremacy. "Black power" is a call for equity and solidarity. Conflating the two by saying that blocking both or allowing both would be "equality" is.. Mind you, I've only been awake for half an hour; but it's definitely the worst take I have read so far today.
- MereInterest 6y ago
  For a while there was an internet game going around where you would give a deliberately vague and ambiguous description, then use it to imply similarity for the sake of invoking cognitive dissonance in the reader. For example, "A small group of rag-tag rebels strike at the empire that brought war to them, bringing down a mighty symbol of that empire. Am I describing Star Wars Episode 4, or the 9/11 attacks?". When done for humor sake, these can be rather amusing. abstractbarista's comment is a political attack along the same lines. By drawing an equivalence between the phrases "white power" and "black power", there is the implicit statement that the two are morally equivalent, which is by no means the case. They then follow-up by saying that since the two are equivalent, they should be treated the same. It's a bait and switch, where the syntactic similarity is used to imply semantic similarity where no such semantic similarity exists.

unanswered 6y ago

"Black power" is associated with a political ideology shared by tens of millions of people across the US. "White power" is associated with a political ideology shared by dozens of people across the US. If we discover that phrases associated with Cthulhu cults and flying spaghetti monster adherents are likewise not blocked, it's probably not because Google is secretly promoting those religions. But with the publication of this article "white power" no doubt increases in popularity as an ad targeting term, so Google has to add it. There's absolutely nothing surprising or nefarious going on here.

minikites 6y ago
>"White power" is associated with a political ideology shared by dozens of people across the US. You might want to check your numbers. There are a lot of real deal white supremacists in the USA and they're growing stronger: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/episode/2010/9/30/white-power-usa-2 https://www.aljazeera.com/program/episode/2010/9/30/white-po...
- everythunhuz 6y ago
  Everything that doesn't agree with Critical Race Theory is white supremacist. That's why when black people kill Asians in the US it's because of white supremacy. Black people are forced to kill Asians because of the history of slavery and individuals are merely pawns in the great race struggle, incapable of independent thought or action. That's why prisons should be abolished. At least that's what the Justice Democrats and Black Lives Matter believe

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