• Lojcs@piefed.social
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      8 hours ago

      I feel like we are having a conversation so I won’t just ignore, but I don’t understand at all what you mean by this.

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            6 hours ago

            This is a perfect example of how the empire disguises spies, commits terrorist acts with them, launches a racist propaganda campaign against a people using their spy as example, and then it turns out to be their own guy.

            This is not a stereotype. It’s literally the guy.

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              5 hours ago

              I see it now, although still I don’t think gachaing the US with those in on it topic is worth putting this imagery on the internet

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                  42 minutes ago

                  I know, I never said it was somebody else. As I’ve said elsewhere, they could’ve picked any other picture of him but they specifically picked this one because it conforms to what people already think what a terrorist looks like. That’s what a stereotype is.

                  You put the imagery under the name to illustrate that they’re a terrorist to people that already have the stereotype ingrained and it also ends up illustrating to other people that that’s what a terrorist looks like. Worse, it normalizes the idea that stereotypes are a reliable source of information about people. This isn’t bad because it’s going to hurt his feelings, it’s bad because it affects completely unrelated people.

                  Honestly it’s insane to me that this has to be explained to a presumed anti-racist