Samskara
@Samskara@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview 1 week ago:
I have called for the end of the war in Gaza for a long time. I have advocated for a two state solution and Palestinians to live a life in dignity, freedom, and prosperity for decades.
The current Israeli government makes terrible decisions. Ben Gvir and Smotrich are inciting and ordering violence on an unacceptable level.
Let’s remember how we ended up here. Arafat rejected the peace deal offered. The second intifada destroyed the peace camp in Israel. Olmert‘s offer was rejected as well. Hamas followed a policy of war instead of building a future for Gazans.
- Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview 1 week ago:
Yes, those originate from Arab, Persian, and Hebrew speaking extremists.
The point is, Bob Vylan escalated the rhetoric in the English language surrounding Israel to a new level, not heard for other topics.
Calling for death is the opposite of calling for peace. It’s a call for more violence and war.
- Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview 1 week ago:
More war it is then, what you’re asking for.
- Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview 1 week ago:
Did the KKK guy defend chants to „Gas the Jews“ or similar in his interview?
- Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview 1 week ago:
„Death to Israel“ and „Death to America“ is also popular in the Middle East.
How about in the UK or Anglosphere?
- Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview 1 week ago:
Theroux is responsible for whom he chooses to platform and what parts of an interview to publish. He knew this would be controversial, generate lots of clicks, and might lose him sponsors.
- Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview 1 week ago:
Just giving the original source as context, so people can make up their own minds.
- Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview 1 week ago:
What other chants do you know that start with „death to“?
- Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview 1 week ago:
How is calling for the death of soldiers truth to power?
- Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview 1 week ago:
Watch Bob Vylan gleefully smile, when he defends his slogan.
- Comment on This is called an oopsi 1 week ago:
Hot white femboys gaping tankie fetish
- Comment on 1 week ago:
2016? Writers complaining about the youth misbehaving is as old as writing itself.
- Comment on If only we knew... 1 week ago:
The world fought a war about this and we all agree the idea of massacring millions for their religious views is a bad thing
That was not what WW2 was fought about at all.
The Jews weren’t killed in the Holocaust for their religious views, but for their ethnicity. An atheist communist with one Jewish parent went to the gas chambers and shooting pits just like the pious Jew in traditional dress.
- Comment on If only we knew... 1 week ago:
Found the tankie
- Comment on Know the difference 1 week ago:
Antifa calls dissenters (anyone to the right of them like social democrats) fascists and and would put them straight into gulag if they could.
Regarding Jews, it depends for both of them.
- Comment on Manic Stew 1 week ago:
Hyperfocus cottage cheese
- Comment on The scientific method or something idk 2 weeks ago:
Link to video?
- Comment on At 1% 3 weeks ago:
VGA was still very common around 20 years ago.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 5 weeks ago:
Yes, I didn’t phrase that well. DEI is more than its three components. You can have diversity without equity and inclusion. You can have equity and inclusion without affirmative action and quotas. Diversity, equity, inclusion is a desired outcome with typically quotas being the main tool. So DEI as a term is mostly interchangeable with affirmative action and quotas. People opposed to quotas aren’t necessarily opposed to diversity.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 5 weeks ago:
Diversity in a team has lots of advantages, but that’s not directly related to DEI, affirmative action, and quotas.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 5 weeks ago:
DEI, affirmative action, and quotas are well intentioned to offset systemic disadvantages. How this is implemented and executed on in practice varies a lot. The results of these measures to enable societal change are mixed.
Instead of using race as a proxy for disadvantaged groups, using quotas for people from poor districts, people with non academic parents, etc. directly might be more beneficial and more broadly accepted in society. The problems in the US, and elsewhere, start with access to and quality of education from childhood on. Trying to fix that with racial quotas for universities seems to be the wrong end.
Have 60 years of affirmative action fundamentally changed the success of African Americans? How much longer should these programs be used?
What about the poor whites who now vote for Trump? They are not part of the good old boys white elite club either. The US is obsessed with race and should move beyond it.
There’s research on affirmative action and it’s effectiveness and overall the results are a bit meh. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/…/ejsp.2991
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 5 weeks ago:
He is being turned into a martyr for the cause. Schools and streets will be named after him soon.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 5 weeks ago:
Yes, it is. He always used to harp on affirmative action DEI leading to less qualified and able people getting jobs. So this results in the perception that any minority working in a qualified profession like pilot is only there because of DEI, not because of their skills and qualifications.
Watch this video for context. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDjN6A8ruo4 Parts of it are used in the submitted edit.
Charlie Kirk has said plenty of crap. There’s no need to misrepresent his views by selective editing.
- Comment on How do you get over a really good manga or webcomic you've read that you want to read more of but you've caught up with all the current updates? 5 weeks ago:
Touch grass
- Comment on Social media ads passing as posts: How advertising slips into Instagram 2 months ago:
Instagram is a full on ad platform and has been for a long time.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The Ten Commandments are in the Quran as well I would guess.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 2 months ago:
Lemmy doesn’t even have a fraction of the useful information you could find on Reddit across lots of topics.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 2 months ago:
You‘re harming people looking for help and support more than you harm Reddit.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 2 months ago:
Lemmy deletes the posts if a user is banned from their own instance or you delete the account.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 2 months ago:
Disco Elysium is not a fantasy themed monster slaying adventure game. It’s a detective game of narrative psychological exploration that uses RPG mechanics.