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Bangladesh blogger Ananta Bijoy Das hacked to death

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Re: Bangladesh blogger Ananta Bijoy Das hacked to death

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Post by swombat »

That's a fair bit more substantial than the "death threats" that continually float about on both sides of debates like GamerGate and whatever.

Very sad that this happens anywhere in the world. Surprised? Not entirely. This is the local Bangladeshi version of Charlie Hebdo...

Re: Bangladesh blogger Ananta Bijoy Das hacked to death

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Post by ritchiea »

swombat wrote: post #2

That's a fair bit more substantial than the "death threats" that continually float about on both sides of debates like GamerGate and whatever. Very sad that this happens anywhere in the world. Surprised? Not entirely. This is the local Bangladeshi version of Charlie Hebdo...

I find your comment to be thoroughly xenophobic and unwilling to face the reality of the United States. Sure, you aren't likely to literally get attacked by Islamists with machetes in the US. But minimizing the threats of gamergate violence is completely unnecessary and unrealistic.

Is it really that difficult to imagine one of the gamergate threats to be from an individual like the UC Santa Barbara shooter or the Aurora Colorado shooter? Don't you think that's the worst fear of the women targeted by gamergate? And frankly, a legitimate fear based on events in the United State over the past 5-10 years? The United States has a huge public violence problem, it just happens to be different from the one in Bangladesh.

Re: Bangladesh blogger Ananta Bijoy Das hacked to death

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Post by contingencies »

To put this in some random hint of potential perspective, Sylhet is the center of the overseas Bengali community in Europe, ie. it's probably one of the most educated, wealthy and progressive parts of the country with the exception of the capital, Dhaka.

Re: Bangladesh blogger Ananta Bijoy Das hacked to death

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Post by DanielBMarkham »

ritchiea wrote: post #6
swombat wrote: post #2

That's a fair bit more substantial than the "death threats" that continually float about on both sides of debates like GamerGate and whatever. Very sad that this happens anywhere in the world. Surprised? Not entirely. This is the local Bangladeshi version of Charlie Hebdo...

I find your comment to be thoroughly xenophobic and unwilling to face the reality of the United States. Sure, you aren't likely to literally get attacked by Islamists with machetes in the US. But minimizing the threats of gamergate violence is completely unnecessary and unrealistic. Is it really that difficult to imagine one of the gamergate threats to be from an individual like the UC Santa Barbara shooter or the Au…

Place A has online death threats where people are literally hacked to death. Place B has online death threats where nobody is injured yet a lot of people get upset.

Xenophobia has nothing to do with it. It's a simple observation. Now if you followed up that observation with something like "And its because everybody who isn't in Place B are degenerate lunatics and shouldn't be trusted"? Then that's xenophobia.

Get your terms straight. Online free speech is under attack in a lot of ways: government surveillance, social peer pressure, fundamentalist religions, and so forth. I don't think trotting out terms like "racist" or "xenophobe" helps in understanding or coming to terms with the problem.

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