Comment by dagmx
1 year ago
That meta specifically green light harassment of minority groups, while giving specific examples of what bigotry is okay to express, is just mind boggling.
What on earth could possess them to specifically carve out those things beyond pandering to an extreme audience?
I completely agree. When I first heard about the changes, I honestly thought "I may not totally agree, but it sounds reasonable." But then I read the actual content rules, and I was completely gobsmacked. As you put it, it essentially forbids hate speech but explicitly and specifically has a carve out for gay and transgender people - the exact language is
> Mental characteristics, including but not limited to allegations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, and unsupported comparisons between PC groups on the basis of inherent intellectual capacity. We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation
I.e. saying "Mormon people are totally insane" is forbidden speech, but saying "Gays are totally insane" is now legit.
On the upside, it convinced me to finally delete my FB account.
Nothing. It’s all partisan theater.
Why else would you explicitly call out CA workers as being biased and the solution being to move that work to Texas? The state where the Gov recently pardoned a convicted murderer whose victim was a leftist protestor. No bias in the state of Texas!
I really like this take: https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/113792044785308349
> The next time Meta (or any tech giant) makes a grand gesture toward progressive causes, remember this moment. Remember that the same algorithm that made them turn right will make them turn left again. The weathervane hasn’t developed a conscience — it’s just detected a new wind.
What could possess them? It's purely kissing the Trump ring. They know a new age of kleptocracy is dawning and they want their slice of it.
> beyond pandering to an extreme audience?
Yeah, no, it's that.
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Even if you believe that about trans people, how does that justify using slurs and personal attacks against them?
(You also massively, massively underestimate how many people think this about the LGBs.)
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Oh, ffs. As a middle-aged gay person, it is deeply depressing to see the same shit that was used against us in the 90s and noughties reheated to attack trans people.
> but the T's (or at least a subset of the T's) pretty clearly are
Oh, yeah? Psychiatrist, are you? Like, why do you believe this?
I'll tell you why you believe this, it is because you have been told to believe it. By pretty much the same people who were telling people to believe the same thing about gay people in the 90s and noughties. Like, it's fucking incredible how gullible a lot of people are about this. The transphobic propaganda you are being fed is, largely, a copy-and-paste of the homophobic propaganda from a few decades ago. Perhaps look a bit more carefully.
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