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I have a couple of things to say about this comment. 1. Instagram (and Facebook) are well known to suppress pro-Palestine voices (can pull up many examples but

I have a couple of things to say about this comment. 1. Instagram (and Facebook) are well known to suppress pro-Palestine voices (can pull up many examples but [0] should work because of that person being named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, clearly having some influence though I don't know her), so this seems like something consistent with what the company is known to do. 2. The Arabic words for "Praise God" have already been made fun of a lot and acquired different connotations by English speakers (like associating those words with a terrorist who is about to bomb some place) so, again, doesn't seem inconsistent. (It's known that machine learning on human language reproduces the humans' biases in the AI.) [0] https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/celebrity-news/bella-hadid-instagram-palestine-775277 https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/celebrity-news/bella-hadi...

dylan604 3y ago
>(It's known that machine learning on human language reproduces the humans' biases in the AI.) just like being raised by your parents to have similar political/religious biases. just like going to the same school will mean you have similar educational biases.
- zogrodea 3y ago
  What's your point? With the sentence you quoted, I was expressing doubt that someone would be fired by Instagram for deliberately mistranslating that. (A different company wouldn't get the same assessment.)
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matteoraso 3y ago
>2. The Arabic words for "Praise God" have already been made fun of a lot and acquired different connotations by English speakers (like associating those words with a terrorist who is about to bomb some place) so, again, doesn't seem inconsistent. You're probably thinking of "Allahu Akbar". What the Instagram user wrote was "alhamdulillah", which isn't something that you hear everyday outside of a Muslim-majority country.
- selimthegrim 3y ago
  No, but’s it’s a very common interjection even among Muslims living outside of those countries (response to sneezing whether or not someone says equivalent of “Bless you”, response to when someone asks how you’re doing, etc)
- VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago
  Wait what? Even when I ask my elderly Iraqi family friends how they are doing, they usually just skip over the “good” and just say “alhamdulillah”.
mikrotikker 3y ago
> The Arabic words for "Praise God" have already been made fun of a lot and acquired different connotations by English speakers (like associating those words with a terrorist who is about to bomb some place) God forbid making fun of a religion.
- Cyphase 3y ago
  You're responding to a point that wasn't being made.
  - mikrotikker 3y ago
    The point was being made in the text I quoted

dylan604 3y ago

>(It's known that machine learning on human language reproduces the humans' biases in the AI.) just like being raised by your parents to have similar political/religious biases. just like going to the same school will mean you have similar educational biases.

zogrodea 3y ago
What's your point? With the sentence you quoted, I was expressing doubt that someone would be fired by Instagram for deliberately mistranslating that. (A different company wouldn't get the same assessment.)

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matteoraso 3y ago

>2. The Arabic words for "Praise God" have already been made fun of a lot and acquired different connotations by English speakers (like associating those words with a terrorist who is about to bomb some place) so, again, doesn't seem inconsistent. You're probably thinking of "Allahu Akbar". What the Instagram user wrote was "alhamdulillah", which isn't something that you hear everyday outside of a Muslim-majority country.

selimthegrim 3y ago
No, but’s it’s a very common interjection even among Muslims living outside of those countries (response to sneezing whether or not someone says equivalent of “Bless you”, response to when someone asks how you’re doing, etc)
VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago
Wait what? Even when I ask my elderly Iraqi family friends how they are doing, they usually just skip over the “good” and just say “alhamdulillah”.

mikrotikker 3y ago

> The Arabic words for "Praise God" have already been made fun of a lot and acquired different connotations by English speakers (like associating those words with a terrorist who is about to bomb some place) God forbid making fun of a religion.

Cyphase 3y ago
You're responding to a point that wasn't being made.
- mikrotikker 3y ago
  The point was being made in the text I quoted