Alternate title: Imagine getting owned by AI

  • BeamBrain [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    7 days ago

    I feel this weird mix of pity and disgust every time I see Indians kiss the boot that stomped them for centuries. There’s nothing else quite like it.

    • RedSailsFan [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      7 days ago

      if it helps you feel better i have to imagine many of them are from one of the higher castes so they didnt suffer as much under colonialism as the lowest castes.

      inaccurate see lussy’s comment below

      • Lussy [any, hy/hym]@hexbear.net
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        7 days ago

        High caste Indians didn’t really have it much better. Of course, the monarchs and megawealthy are always insulated but not all upper caste are wealthy or even not dirt poor.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      7 days ago

      I’m half-white, half-Filipino. Whites will never accept the white portion of my ancestry. I will always be treated as though I’m 100% Asian Pacific Islander. I figured this out a long-ass time ago and want no part in being white.

      So it’s absolutely baffling when I see PoC with no white ancestry thinking they can get whites to accept them. Whitey will consider other whites not white as soon as they become an inconvenience. We’ve seen this where Latine people and Arabs had their whiteness revoked post-WWII. If you’re already outside of the in-group? You should be vigilant, more than anything, around whites.

      I get it’s part of internalized racism, but holy shit that only takes you so far. Like what do these people think is going to happen? Whites will exterminate everyone in their ethnic group except them, personally? When has that ever happened when Europeans decide to do genocide?

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      7 days ago

      It is a shocking level of servility that you usually only see in fictional ancient history characters that are hardly believable.

  • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    7 days ago

    4chan level racism by like the second top-level reply (and then more in the next few!) is some amazing work cultivating a certain environment on the part of Musk.