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I feel like some of you are going to run for politics in a few decades and owning a .io domain with no residence or operation in that part of the world, while t

I feel like some of you are going to run for politics in a few decades and owning a .io domain with no residence or operation in that part of the world, while technically not wrong at the time, will be the seen with the same disdain as blackface, cultural appropriation, or wearing a Nazi uniform to a Halloween party. It seems in poor taste to use your privileges to perform digital colonization, revise the intention that .IO was never about Indian Ocean territory, and justify it all simply because it was a convenient way at the time for you to get attention and make money.

camjw 2y ago
"That part of the world" - christ mate its just a military base
- Dibby053 2y ago
  And blackface is just a costume. I think there's some necessary context to understand GP's comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Chagossians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Chagossians
  - wormlord 2y ago
    There is a good "Behind the Bastards" episode about this event. Also the Chagossian man in the Wikipedia article is incredibly jacked. I am assuming that physique is just from physical labor but holy cow.
    - 15155 2y ago
      > Also the Chagossian man in the Wikipedia article is incredibly jacked. I am assuming that physique is just from physical labor but holy cow. He's probably 5'4" - 5'8" (and standing alone) which helps significantly.
      - wormlord 2y ago
        Even if he is small, his muscle definition is very impressive. It's pretty cool that you can have that physique from regular physical labor.
- aaomidi 2y ago
  I think you don’t realize how bad this sounds. Like, have you wondered why it’s “just a military base”?
- ColonelBlimp 2y ago
  The fact that, as you say, "it's just a military base" is the consequence of the forced eviction of the local population (around 1,500 people) in 1968 by the US and the UK.
  - philwelch 2y ago
    That’s not a lot of people. More people probably lost their homes to Hurricane Helene just this past couple of weeks. And the average Mauritian wasn’t even born in 1968.
    - dghlsakjg 2y ago
      I don't think that comparing a natural disaster/act of god to a foreign government forcibly relocating an entire culture is the right argument here. If you stand by it, what is the correct number of people to have their rights systematically and intentionally violated before we should care?
      - philwelch 2y ago
        Saigon fell in 1975. Millions of people fled the country in fear for their lives or gave up their children, with hundreds of thousands dying in the process. The fall of South Vietnam was a humanitarian catastrophe on a monumental scale, and basically no one cares about it anymore. And you’re expecting me to care about 1500 people being peacefully resettled from one island to another? All of this handwringing is a disingenuous excuse to vilify Britain and the West in general from the very same people who sympathize and make excuses for the Vietnamese communists even to this day. Edit: If we were holding a consistent standard here, we would have to say that the Vietnamese government should withdraw from illegally occupied South Vietnam and return it to the people who were violently displaced in 1975. Nobody advocates for this. Vietnam has somewhat liberalized into the kind of country that doesn’t do this sort of thing anymore and the refugees of 1975 and their descendants have built new lives in the countries they ended up in, including the United States. This sort of revanchism causes more problems than it solves, and there’s no obvious limit to it. Should Turkey return Constantinople to the Greeks? If we want to learn anything from history, it shouldn’t be a catalog of ancestral grudges to be settled; it should be that holding onto these grudges achieves nothing.
123yawaworht456 2y ago
in a few decades, you people will view five thousand other things with the same disdain. no one outside your isolated little echo chambers gives a shit though.
- toyg 2y ago
  "What do you mean, 'you people' ? "

camjw 2y ago

"That part of the world" - christ mate its just a military base

Dibby053 2y ago
And blackface is just a costume. I think there's some necessary context to understand GP's comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Chagossians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Chagossians
- wormlord 2y ago
  There is a good "Behind the Bastards" episode about this event. Also the Chagossian man in the Wikipedia article is incredibly jacked. I am assuming that physique is just from physical labor but holy cow.
  - 15155 2y ago
    > Also the Chagossian man in the Wikipedia article is incredibly jacked. I am assuming that physique is just from physical labor but holy cow. He's probably 5'4" - 5'8" (and standing alone) which helps significantly.
    - wormlord 2y ago
      Even if he is small, his muscle definition is very impressive. It's pretty cool that you can have that physique from regular physical labor.
aaomidi 2y ago
I think you don’t realize how bad this sounds. Like, have you wondered why it’s “just a military base”?
ColonelBlimp 2y ago
The fact that, as you say, "it's just a military base" is the consequence of the forced eviction of the local population (around 1,500 people) in 1968 by the US and the UK.
- philwelch 2y ago
  That’s not a lot of people. More people probably lost their homes to Hurricane Helene just this past couple of weeks. And the average Mauritian wasn’t even born in 1968.
  - dghlsakjg 2y ago
    I don't think that comparing a natural disaster/act of god to a foreign government forcibly relocating an entire culture is the right argument here. If you stand by it, what is the correct number of people to have their rights systematically and intentionally violated before we should care?
    - philwelch 2y ago
      Saigon fell in 1975. Millions of people fled the country in fear for their lives or gave up their children, with hundreds of thousands dying in the process. The fall of South Vietnam was a humanitarian catastrophe on a monumental scale, and basically no one cares about it anymore. And you’re expecting me to care about 1500 people being peacefully resettled from one island to another? All of this handwringing is a disingenuous excuse to vilify Britain and the West in general from the very same people who sympathize and make excuses for the Vietnamese communists even to this day. Edit: If we were holding a consistent standard here, we would have to say that the Vietnamese government should withdraw from illegally occupied South Vietnam and return it to the people who were violently displaced in 1975. Nobody advocates for this. Vietnam has somewhat liberalized into the kind of country that doesn’t do this sort of thing anymore and the refugees of 1975 and their descendants have built new lives in the countries they ended up in, including the United States. This sort of revanchism causes more problems than it solves, and there’s no obvious limit to it. Should Turkey return Constantinople to the Greeks? If we want to learn anything from history, it shouldn’t be a catalog of ancestral grudges to be settled; it should be that holding onto these grudges achieves nothing.

123yawaworht456 2y ago

in a few decades, you people will view five thousand other things with the same disdain. no one outside your isolated little echo chambers gives a shit though.

toyg 2y ago
"What do you mean, 'you people' ? "