Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar (2018)

Re:Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar... by patagurbon on Monday January 11, 2021 @08:06PM (#25740891)

Some of the "problems" people have aren't solvable. There are people who are just racist or sexist etc. There are certainly a lot of problems these groups have which we can and should solve: poverty, drug addiction, lack of social mobility, education. But sometimes the core issue really is pure unadulterated hate. What then?

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Re:Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar... by imwillofficial on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @01:08PM (#25750789)

That’s a very simplistic view, and false reductionism.

You take no efforts to understand their grievances, hear them out, so their problems never get solved.

By reducing people to simple labels, it might be able to deal with them in your own mind with a reduced cognitive load, but this leads to further alienation and eventually full breakdown of coexistence.

These people are here. They have problems with how things are run. Deny them the soap box and you push them to the ammo box. I hope I never see this in my beloved country.

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