Comment on Anon gets calls from scammers

• rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Pajeet” is racist as fuck. We can hate scammers without being racist.

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  • JakJak98@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    While yes it is absolutely racist, scammers are not capable of having an identity associated with someone who is on par with humanity. They’re far below animals.

    I prefer the term “demihuman” or any other dehumanizing language so they know who they are.

    Minus the human trafficked ones of course. Only the vast majority who do it willingly.

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    • doctordevice@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Using racial slurs isn’t only damaging and insulting to the person being directly talked to or about. I suggest adopting a blanket position against racial slurs in any context.

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      • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But what about <incredibly contrived specific example involving song lyrics, guns to heads etc.>, can I say it then?

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      • JakJak98@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I didnt say using racial slurs is correct. I said the act of scamming someone is so far removed from the identity of what it means to be human.

        I never defended the terminology used in the post. Nor would I use that. Its shallow, and means far less than telling them they aren’t someone capable of receiving any care.

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      • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If you can’t be made fun of, you’re the bad guy.

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    • Belastend@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yay, someone committed le wrong, that means we get dehumanoze them yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

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      • JakJak98@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m a bit lost. I didn’t justify using racist terms. I’m saying that scammers lack the core traits of humanity, compassion and care in others.

        And they don’t deserve anything, let alone feeling comfortable in a conversation, or the air they breathe.

        That is regardless of race, sex, gender. If you scam someone else, you don’t deserve life.

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      • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Plain old insults have now graduated to dehumanizing? Move the goalposts much?

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• MrShankles@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And a large portion of them are being trafficked for slave labor; so that’s fun

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  • SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Doesn’t that actually absolve them of their shit behavior? It isn’t the same to try and scam grandmas because you want a shinier car than because you’re locked at a basement and beaten up if you don’t make your kidnappers money.

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    • MrShankles@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sorry, when I said “So that’s fun”, I was being sarcastic

      But that’s kinda what I was trying to get at. You don’t really know if a scammer is being trafficked or not, so casting a wide net that calls all of them human garbage becomes difficult

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  • ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    explain the calling back and death threats then?

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    • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Imagine you’re already a slave and then someone curses your mother.

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      • ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        right. laugh and move on because that’s a childish thing to do?

        also, if I’m a slave, wasting my master’s time making prank calls and not making money will get me beaten.

        Now, you imagine your mother getting cursed.

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