AsLeftAsTheyCome

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 months ago (1 children)

kkkanada has legal precedent that “just following orders” and earnestly believing in fascist propaganda are a legitimate defence for committing nazi war crimes.

In Canada’s first war crimes prosecution, the Canadian Supreme Court acquitted nazi collaborator Imre Finta, on the grounds that he was “just following orders” and that he sincerely believed that “the Jews were subversive and disloyal.” agony-deep

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Imagine sprinting directly into a the aftermath of a russian artillery strike to jack off a corpse lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Fair enough, sorry if I mischaracterized your statements. left-unity-2

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I mean sure, there’s obviously some degree of distinction. But there’s enough variety and overlap between groups that it’s hard to claim there’s genetic evidence for race. The way that corporations like 23 and Me choose to measure race is also fairly controversial, at least in my understanding.

Kinda self doxxing, but in my own experience, a few close relatives of mine got tested and came back with a high ratio of Shepardi genetic markers. One is definitely Jewish, so no surprises there. However, the other is almost entirely Anglo-Irish, with some Muslim background from Spain. The genes the test marked as Shepardi most likely came from that group of Muslims. These genetic tests generally tend to assume that Semite + euro = Jew when that is not always the case. This assumption tends to erase some european Muslims as well as many Arabic and African Jews.

Genetics and “race” also aren’t equivalent to ethnicity, especially in a multiracial ethnoreligious group. My father is of Jewish descent but my mother is not and I wasn’t really raised as a Jew. If I wanted to be considered Jewish, I’d need to put in the effort of joining a community and possibly converting, depending on how conservative the sect is. A genetic test absolutely would not cut it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (7 children)

We are that genetically distinct

No you are not. No humans are. Scientifically, there is no such thing as race.

Jews in particular, are a fairly diverse group of people. In my (admittedly weak) understanding, most of these DNA tests just assume that people who have a semitic haplo group, in combination with certain genes most common in eastern or southern europe, must have a Jewish family background. This methodology is obviously extremely eurocentric, which is probably why these freaks love it.

It’s also worth pointing out that those same semitic haplo groups are also extremely common among Palestinians, because Palestinians are indigenous to the region. I guess those “distinct” genetics only grant you the right to a nation-state if you have some european mutations attached.

I know I’m preaching to the choir but this is just blood and soil ethnonationalism with an extremely thin veneer of progressivism. Even if an ethnic group was somehow consistently and measurably distinct from the rest of humanity, it wouldn’t somehow justify the displacement and destruction of any other group of people. Genetics are obviously completely irrelevant to the shit that isreal is doing and the fact that this person thinks it serves as some kind of justification only exposes their blatant fascism. This whole line of argument is just so disgusting and despicably racist.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago

Take verbal responsibility for layoff

geordi-yes

Accept pay-cut

geordi-no

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Didn’t the pope and Angelina Jolie show up in ukraine to demand that russia just let them go lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

reddit-logo really does love their thought terminating cliches.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 7 months ago (3 children)

They’re going to claim that he’s using a devious russian trick called “reverse psychologista.”

[–] [email protected] 55 points 7 months ago (2 children)

But maybe being enslaved by Russia is more frightening?

internet-delenda-est

I’m gonna need these people to define what they think slavery is.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago

A pedo fed. A fedo you could say.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I don’t think leftists think weight is exactly equivalent to class, race, gender or sexuality in terms of systemic oppression. That doesn’t mean that people don’t experience weight discrimination or fatphobia.

In the west, the working class is less likely to be able to afford nutritious food than the upper class. Food deserts are most common in impoverished communities and this is absolutely by design. It’s also worth mentioning that people can be both fat and malnourished. Malnutrition isn’t just caused by the quantity of food people eat, it can also be caused by a lack of quality. In the US in particular, many fat people are both poor and malnourished; there really isn’t a contradiction here.

Cooking your own meals and building an effective exercise routine can be time consuming. People who need to sell their labour to survive generally have less free time to spend on these kinds of tasks. Fatphobia is an issue that is more likely to impact the working class and marginalized communities, at least in the west.

There’s also a LOT of intersection between racial discrimination, fetishization and body shaming. The horrific objectification and exploitation of Saartjie Baartman is an (extreme) example of this but it isn’t difficult to find similar instances of this kind of hypersexualization and abuse directed towards minority women who don’t fit into a specific eurocentric idea of health or beauty. This also overlaps pretty heavily with medical discrimination, which Othello already mentioned.

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