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Facebook's Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men From Hate Speech But Not Black Children (propublica.org)
Sidney Fussell from Gizmodo summarizes a report from ProPublica, which brings to light dozens of training documents used by Facebook to train moderators on hate speech: As the trove of slides and quizzes reveals, Facebook uses a warped, one-sided reasoning to balance policing hate speech against users' freedom of expression on the platform. This is perhaps best summarized by the above image from one of its training slideshows, wherein Facebook instructs moderators to protect "White Men," but not "Female Drivers" or "Black Children." Facebook only blocks inflammatory remarks if they're used against members of a "protected class." But Facebook itself decides who makes up a protected class, with lots of clear opportunities for moderation to be applied arbitrarily at best and against minoritized people critiquing those in power (particularly white men) at worst --
as Facebook has been routinely accused of. According to the leaked documents, here are the group identifiers Facebook protects: Sex, Religious affiliation, National origin, Gender identity, Race, Ethnicity, Sexual Orientation, Serious disability or disease. And here are those Facebook won't protect: Social class, continental origin, appearance, age, occupation, political ideology, religions, countries. Subsets of groups -- female drivers, Jewish professors, gay liberals -- aren't protected either, as ProPublica explains: White men are considered a group because both traits are protected, while female drivers and black children, like radicalized Muslims, are subsets, because one of their characteristics is not protected.
It's impossible because it's not possible for them to be victimized in that way. You can say mean things to someone, but that's not the same as racism. You need a society where there is systematic abuse of white men before they could possibly be the victim of hate speech.
I totally understand why people wouldn't want to accept this. Because it's completely unfair. What applies to one person should be equally applicable to all people. How can we have a society that is so unfair that one class of people can't even be considered a victim.
A white man can be the target of hate speech if they immigrate to a different culture where they are systematically discriminated against. But I can't think of any examples where a Caucasian is at a significant disadvantage in society across the board. Even in East Asia where some things are difficult for Westerns there are a whole lot of other thing that are easier.
TL;DR - Having your feelings hurt != hate speech. Now we know who the real snowflakes are.
because it's of course not possible to hate-speak against whitey
That is mostly true. I am white, and I don't get offended at people insulting my race. Anti-white speech seems more funny than offensive, which may be why it is so common in comedy. People are bothered by hate speech when there is not just words, but also social and economic repression, which rarely happens to white people because of their race.
I choose oblivion.
Oblivion (eternal unconsciousness or annihilation) is not an option. It's like a person who feels offended by gravity declaring, "I choose levitation." These are your only options:
"And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away." Revelation 21:4-5
"Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:" Matthew 25:41
I never asked to be created.
Yes, and just as He didn't seek your approval before creating you, He also won't seek your approval before condemning you to eternal conscious torment. "Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased." Psalm 115:3
Don't be a fool: "Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?" Romans 9:20
"Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil." Proverbs 3:7
Even then, I will never willingly submit to some bastard who's only tenet is "love me, or suffer."
Whether you like it or not, you have been born into a world where your actions affect others, and ours affect you. You have no right to harm your neighbours, either by neglect or by abuse, without consequences.
God's wisdom, knowledge, and understanding are infinite, and His love, justice, and mercy are perfect. Obviously, ours are not. It follows logically from this that we are required to submit to His perfect standard, rather than being allowed to invent our own: the alternative is the awful chaos with which humanity's rebellion has filled the Earth to this day.
Moreover, we certainly have no right to despise our Creator and just do our own (destructive, blasphemous) thing: He made us for a purpose. He gives us life, knowledge, pleasure, and many other wonderful things; will you bite the hand that feeds you? Are you stronger than God?
"Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." Revelation 4:11
Love extracted at the end of a sword is not love.
This is true. The Bible has a word for the person who "loves" God only out of fear of punishment, or a selfish hope for reward: hypocrite - literally, an actor.
"Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." Matthew 15:7-9
God well knows that fallen humanity has such an evil heart that, on our own, we are incapable of true gratitude toward our Creator: "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one." Romans 3:10-12 "Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." Romans 8:7
But, the Good News is that God's goodness is greater than our wickedness. He is able to change our hearts and set us free from our hard bondage to the madness of sin:
"Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Chri
Over the land they HAD? I mean I sympathize with them, and wish they never had to live these traumatic and racist events but please don't forget the historical perspective....