Re:Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony
by atleastoptimal on Monday November 13, 2023 @10:07PM
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She is now more of the opinion that anti-Asian hate is primarily perpetuated by African Americans, which seems to be a fringe opinion in left-leaning circles. I don't know if it's true overall: she says it's due to seeing a lot of videos of Asians being harassed by African Americans and almost none of harassment by any other group.
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Re:Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony
by aaomidi on Monday November 13, 2023 @10:43PM
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I guess the interesting thing with this one is, while this statistically is __factual__ (at least from my readings of whats going on), we also know statistics do a horrible job in actually showing causation. And an even worse job when it comes to explaining sociological issues because it's always one/few dimensional.
Scientific racism wasn't just absurdist rhetoric. It was, on the surface level, logical (albeit, cherry picked data) to push a specific view point that "felt logical."
So yeah I think you're right about that being an interesting pushed-to-the-right view point. And unfortunately due to it sounding `logical`, it's very hard to convince people to look a bit deeper into it and compare it to historical repeats of that rhetoric.
Re:Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony
by latency-guy2 on Monday November 13, 2023 @11:26PM
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I will believe your rhetoric if you can give an example where the same thing can be said for leftist thought. Where "logical" thought trumps confounds as you say, but the confounds are what hides the truth.
Re:Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony
by 93po on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @11:36AM
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This is probably indicative that videos featuring someone who is black being racist drives more views and engagement than a white person. So it's the ones the algo shows to her. This is why algos are dangerous.