• @[email protected]
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    515 months ago

    I got several comments deleted on .ml for insulting bitch ass pooh bear Xi, even called racist as if dictator is a race.

    • @someguy3
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      125 months ago

      Dictators tend to be psychopaths. I wonder if we can call psychopaths a race.

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        If after the following steps:

        1. Get 2 Psychopaths to make a baby (let’s call this subject A).
        2. Take subject A at birth and nurture it in an environment previously proven to not create psychopaths.
        3. Test subject A after a threshold age.

        Get statistical data.

        If result:

        1. subject A is psychopath with 99% + confidence, then psychopaths are a race.
        2. subject A is psychopath with < 99% confidence, then psychopaths are NOT a race.

        Just to be clear, I will not endorse this study.

        • @antidote101
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          It’s already been shown that psychopaths can live relatively normal lives when given proper treatment. There’s even a story of one such brain researcher (James Fallon) finding out his own brain structures in an MRI result showed a tendency to psychopathy, even though he was a fairly average man who was conducting such a study.

          • @[email protected]
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            15 months ago

            In that case, wouldn’t we want to say, instead, that the researcher’s environment was such that he developed mild tendencies towards psychopathy, but not enough to be socially relevant.
            I would go so far to say that the average person has a tendency to psychopathy, considering the social state of our civilisation.

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    • @daltotron
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      25 months ago

      yeah I think generally the reasoning around it being a racial insult is that winnie the pooh is yellow

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        15 months ago

        Are Asians considered to be yellow or something?

        I only think of emojis, the Simpsons, and LEGO characters.

        • @daltotron
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          35 months ago

          Are Asians considered to be yellow or something?

          I mean yeah that’s a pretty infamous kind of racialized portrayal that you’ll see in like old propaganda cartoons or whatever.

        • @[email protected]
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          35 months ago

          While good on you, it is definitely a classic racist terminology. People who refer to Xi as Pooh should probably be aware of it.

          • @[email protected]
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            25 months ago

            It’s because they’re both fat and have similar faces though. I never considered yellow. The Chinese use Pooh to make fun too. So I don’t think it actually meant racially.

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              25 months ago

              Maybe so. For many Pepe was just a frog.

              I don’t find much value in those kinds of portrayals to begin with, so I have a pretty low bar for defending their use.

              • @[email protected]
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                25 months ago

                The only reason I use it is that it’s banned speech that is banned because it specifically hurts the feelings of a dictator enough to ban it. That is a huge plus for using Pooh Bear for me. Everyone should be able to call their leaders a shithead.