The detention and attempted deportation of Khalil is a test by Trump to see how far he can go—and a test for us to see how hard we will fight back.
  • jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago

    The reason is because I don’t want people scrolling through my comment history taking this out of context and thinking I’m somebody who unironically and unquotatively uses the term «brown people». (Guillemets as a truce, ok?) I won’t deny that it’s performative.

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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      11 hours ago

      Ha, fair enough. I won’t say you are wrong about someone doing that. My observation has been:

      1. Lemmy has vanishingly few people who are actually racist/transphobic/in favor of genocide/whatever
      2. Lemmy has a ton of people who are convinced that those people are all over the place, and devote a really substantial amount of mental energy into trying to find something they can misinterpret as being one of those things and then go on the attack (also periodically assuring one another that there are definitely a ton of those people all over the place, and attacking them to each other)

      My advice would be to avoid the places where group 2 likes to congregate, because they tend to be silly places that will give people a distorted view of what’s real after a while.

      • jsomae@lemmy.ml
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        11 hours ago

        I kind of find that (2) is pretty pervasive though. I think it’s one of lemmy’s biggest flaws right now. That’s why I was so careful with the quotes, but I guess it backfired (sorry). Hopefully we can all take a chill pill collectively at some point…