Good demo today. Death to all fascists
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raf ๐ฃ (raf@babka.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 05:45:43 JST raf ๐ฃ -
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raf ๐ฃ (raf@babka.social)'s status on Friday, 17-May-2024 15:03:58 JST raf ๐ฃ People's willingness to shield and protect their antisemitic friends is why the Fediverse is so hostile to Jewish people.
There are not that many Jew haters on this network. If more non-Jewish people were willing to step up and call out these haters, you'd see a lot more Jewish people here vs back at Twitter.
But no, we have to twist ourselves in knots to defend the safety and precious feelings of these fucking bigots.
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raf ๐ฃ (raf@babka.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 17:50:41 JST raf ๐ฃ Learnt the German word Doppelmoral!
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raf ๐ฃ (raf@babka.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 00:08:04 JST raf ๐ฃ How long is it going to take people to get that the lack of accountability in machine learning solutions is the point, and not an accident?
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raf ๐ฃ (raf@babka.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 19:50:27 JST raf ๐ฃ The real issue is people starting with a solution instead of their problem. But I thought ConvNets have been great for bird and plant identifying mobile apps.
This tech has real uses. It's just unclear that dialogue systems is the best way to be selling it
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raf ๐ฃ (raf@babka.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 04:51:12 JST raf ๐ฃ The set of actions that would reign in Israel's destruction of Gaza and the set of actions that make Jewish people feel unsafe basically have no overlap.
And yet, when presented the option, many still choose actions from the latter
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raf ๐ฃ (raf@babka.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 01:08:17 JST raf ๐ฃ I find it hilarious when people go, "You know the Republicans don't really care about antisemitism". Which again, no shit. But where's your evidence Democrats or those to their left do though?
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raf ๐ฃ (raf@babka.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 10:28:41 JST raf ๐ฃ There is no realistic plan for peace that doesn't involve Netanyahu being removed from power, and likely sent to prison. The demands that make that most likely are a ceasefire and calls for Netanyahu to resign.
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raf ๐ฃ (raf@babka.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 12:00:24 JST raf ๐ฃ When a leftist tells you there is racism, sexism, antisemitism on the left, they don't need to be reminded that it's worse on the right. They know!
They want you to do work so there is no racism, sexism, antisemitism on the left. Browbeating them just communicates that you don't want to do that
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raf ๐ฃ (raf@babka.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 17:27:15 JST raf ๐ฃ Is Doch the German equivalent of the phrase "well actually"?
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raf ๐ฃ (raf@babka.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 09:49:31 JST raf ๐ฃ People engaging in cartoonish accusations of Netanyahu and Israel actually have the effect of drowning out the countless serious concerns many people including many Israelis have of both.
Like the government trying to intimidate Hadash, a left-wing party, into not holding their political convention
A far-right government is not hard to criticise without being a bigot
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raf ๐ฃ (raf@babka.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 03:34:25 JST raf ๐ฃ The best way to show solidarity with Jewish people is calling out your Jew hating friends and bystander intervention. Not appropriating Jewish symbols and rituals
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raf ๐ฃ (raf@babka.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Dec-2023 02:57:43 JST raf ๐ฃ What's the other team?
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raf ๐ฃ (raf@babka.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 16:04:36 JST raf ๐ฃ When people on TikTok say they liked Bin Laden's Letter to America do they mean the parts about the US needing to close down Guantanamo.
Or the part about the US inventing AIDS and โin all its different forms and guises, the Jews have taken control of your economy, through which they have then taken control of your media, and now control all aspects of your life making you their servants and achieving their aims at your expense; precisely what Benjamin Franklin warned you againstโ
Asking for a friend
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raf ๐ฃ (raf@babka.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 13:33:29 JST raf ๐ฃ This is really good. I should add that we should embrace the pluralism of the fediverse. Some instances will likely not be able to ever freely federate with one another even if there is nothing wrong with either community.
An instance for spiders and an instance for people afraid of spiders won't readily get along. Similarly, a religious instance where nudity is frowned upon and a nudist instance will have different norms.
That negotiation of norms across instances is crucial for making the fediverse safe and we are all still very bad at it.
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raf ๐ฃ (raf@babka.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 08:15:27 JST raf ๐ฃ My spouse really wants us to get the banorah. But I want the menorasaurus
https://www.etsy.com/listing/479693157/dinosaur-menorah?frs=1&etp=1
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raf ๐ฃ (raf@babka.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 01:23:48 JST raf ๐ฃ Jewish quotas in university and being banned from social clubs is still in living memory. I don't know why these specific questions were chosen, but I don't think a survey is the worst way to try to measure antisemitism.
Also if you are interested in how prevalent bigoted beliefs are within in a population, I'm not sure anything other than a properly conducted survey will work
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raf ๐ฃ (raf@babka.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 01:23:45 JST raf ๐ฃ I haven't been shy about sharing my criticisms of the ADL. Probably best captured in articles like this one:
https://newrepublic.com/article/175013/anti-defamation-league-where-stand-today
I also hope we can agree that antisemitism is alive and well at least in stochastic terrorist events like the Jewish school that was shot up twice in one week in Montreal.
Or with workplace discrimination with more than 50% of Jews and 62% of Muslims have said they experienced it.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23780231211070920
How we should measure that is always going to feel dissatisfying since there will always be some disagreement.
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raf ๐ฃ (raf@babka.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 00:53:23 JST raf ๐ฃ Yep! People generally say they are against antisemitism
https://www.ajc.org/AntisemitismReport2022/GeneralPublic
But, surveys do suggest across ages 15-20% of people in the US have bigoted views against Jews. Conservative people are much more likely to be expressing them, but it's still hovering around 10% for overt antisemitism for even very liberal people.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/10659129221111081
https://www.adl.org/resources/report/antisemitic-attitudes-america-topline-findings
Like you said, vast majority for liberals and leftist and even majority for conservatives. It's better than it could be, but that's still a lot of bigots
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raf ๐ฃ (raf@babka.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 00:53:21 JST raf ๐ฃ All these studies are fairly clear about the questions they ask and split out questions related to Israel. Your concern is very reasonable and common. That's why modern surveys account for it.
You can dislike the ADL, but this survey has basically been unchanged for 50 years.