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Fear of White Replacement in Life and Gaming [video]

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Re: Fear of White Replacement in Life and Gaming [video]

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Post by peri »

Obviously this discussion is INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS to post online, so this video is not mine and not my perspective but: #meToo, every time I, as a Cajun lady, walk into any kind of game store, tobacconist, gas station, or grocery store in the United States of America.

American friends keep saying over and over and over again that this is "unique" to American culture but I have never felt this under threat in any country I've ever been in with the possible exception of Austria/Poland between 2014-2021. I am so used to "hackers" in the MIT/CSAIL sense covering up the damage of other academics in order to protect "their own" and it's not ever been cool, and I refuse to respond to anyone who expects me to reply to anything here ever in Yiddish.

Re: Fear of White Replacement in Life and Gaming [video]

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Post by car_analogy »

krapp wrote: post #4
car_analogy wrote: post #3

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> No, sweet summer child, you can't simply dispel this with a single JPEG.

How can we know unless we try? And watching the news, I haven't seen them try once (this issue is no exception - it seems media in general is allergic to graphs and data).

Unfortunately, I cannot try it. I'm not published by any media company, and posting it here would prove nothing - readers here are highly non-representative, so results would not generalize.

To clarify, I don't think it would be a panacea. As you say, the most hardboiled would dismiss it. But it would surely help.

Re: Fear of White Replacement in Life and Gaming [video]

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Post by krapp »

car_analogy wrote: post #6
krapp wrote: post #4

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> No, sweet summer child, you can't simply dispel this with a single JPEG. How can we know unless we try? And watching the news, I haven't seen them try once (this issue is no exception - it seems media in general is allergic to graphs and data). Unfortunately, I cannot try it. I'm not published by any media company, and posting it here would prove nothing - readers here are highly non-representative, so results woul…

>And watching the news, I haven't seen them try once (this issue is no exception - it seems media in general is allergic to graphs and data).

"media in general" publishes graphs and data all the time.

>Unfortunately, I cannot try it.

Sure you can. Just find one of the many forums or groups where such people hang out and post the graph. If you're correct, the cascade failure should be near instantaneous.

Re: Fear of White Replacement in Life and Gaming [video]

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Post by car_analogy »

krapp wrote: post #7
car_analogy wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> No, sweet summer child, you can't simply dispel this with a single JPEG. How can we know unless we try? And watching the news, I haven't seen them try once (this issue is no exception - it seems media in general is allergic to graphs and data). Unfortunately, I cannot try it. I'm not published by any media company, and posting it here would prove nothing - readers here are highly non-representative, so results woul…

>And watching the news, I haven't seen them try once (this issue is no exception - it seems media in general is allergic to graphs and data). "media in general" publishes graphs and data all the time. >Unfortunately, I cannot try it. Sure you can. Just find one of the many forums or groups where such people hang out and post the graph. If you're correct, the cascade failure should be near instantaneous.

But those are exactly the most hardboiled - I'd fully expect them to reject the graph as fake. But just because some racists are lost causes, does not imply all who harbor racist fears are beyond saving.
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