the mod said they will unban him if he remove the post in /r/viking

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    9 days ago

    Disgusting and such a clear example of the damage we do to another when we accept the all encompassing conditions of corporate social media without resistance.

    When a social media website is being run for profit, this kind of shockingly ugly simplification of “foreign” ideas (Islam is NOT foreign to the US) is inveitable. In order to monetize at scale, the system demands this degree of ignorance, it is not optional nor an unintended side effect it is rather how “we” ensure the “right” history is recorded as a racist, xenophobic society choking to death on its own bigotry.

    It is the same situation with mainstream corporate news. The more money you add, the more practiced and willful ignorance you get.

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      Nah this isn’t corporate influence, it’s just plain old bigotry and racism. This smells strongly of “brown religion bad”.

      A lot of Americans fell victim to this after 9/11 and it never went away. Anything Muslim is terrorism. I doubt most of them even know that allah is just the name they use for their god, and certainly not that it’s the same god as the Christian god.