“How hard they work to define the slave as inhuman, savage, when in fact the definition of the inhuman describes overwhelmingly the punisher. When they rest, exhausted, between bouts of lashing, the punishment is more sadistic than corrective. If sustained whipping tires the lasher, and he or she must take a series of breaks before continuing, what good does its duration do to the whipped? Such extreme pain seems to be designed for the pleasure of the one with the lash. The necessity of rendering the slave a foreign species appears to be a desperate attempt to confirm one’s own self as normal. The urgency of distinguishing between those who belong to the human race and those who are decidedly non-human is so powerful the spotlight turns away and shines not on the object of degradation but on its creator. Even assuming exaggeration by the slaves, the sensibility of slave owners is gothic. It’s as though they are shouting, “I am not a beast! I’m not a beast! I torture the helpless to prove I am not weak.” The danger of sympathizing with the stranger is the possibility of becoming a stranger. To lose one’s racial-ized rank is to lose one’s own valued and enshrined difference.” ― Toni Morrison, The Origin of Others
Hey moron. That article is about the onion buying info wars.
Stop trying to argue with people and actually read things. You might learn something instead of looking like a lunatic.
Yes, I clearly can read. Your Lemmy behaviors on Lemmy media platform are what is being called out.
Out-group moron social machine behavior, conditioned reactionary response. You attack Americans and immigrants you don’t understand or comprehend, just like Elon Musk and Donald Trump do - use Elon Musk Twitter systems and Donald Trump Truth Social systems to attack and call people “low IQ” and other insults when they can’t understand information warfare from Russia.
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“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. As I write, the number-one videocassette rental in America is the movie Dumb and Dumber. “Beavis and Butthead” remain popular (and influential) with young TV viewers. The plain lesson is that study and learning—not just of science, but of anything—are avoidable, even undesirable.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995
So you claim you can read, yet everything you’re “calling out” is the complete opposite of what’s going on.
That’s an interesting way to talk to people.
I’m also not reading any of whatever it is your copy/pasting. You’re a lunatic.
This is the non-fiction I’m posting here on Lemmy that you replied to, this is what I’m calling out:
“How hard they work to define the slave as inhuman, savage, when in fact the definition of the inhuman describes overwhelmingly the punisher. When they rest, exhausted, between bouts of lashing, the punishment is more sadistic than corrective. If sustained whipping tires the lasher, and he or she must take a series of breaks before continuing, what good does its duration do to the whipped? Such extreme pain seems to be designed for the pleasure of the one with the lash. The necessity of rendering the slave a foreign species appears to be a desperate attempt to confirm one’s own self as normal. The urgency of distinguishing between those who belong to the human race and those who are decidedly non-human is so powerful the spotlight turns away and shines not on the object of degradation but on its creator. Even assuming exaggeration by the slaves, the sensibility of slave owners is gothic. It’s as though they are shouting, “I am not a beast! I’m not a beast! I torture the helpless to prove I am not weak.” The danger of sympathizing with the stranger is the possibility of becoming a stranger. To lose one’s racial-ized rank is to lose one’s own valued and enshrined difference.” ― Toni Morrison, The Origin of Others
I’m not talking to people, I’ve been silent the past 2 hours. Are you hearing voices? I’m sharing non-fiction material from Toni Morrison on Lemmy that you can’t seem to comprehend. You seem to suffer from “Context Blindness”
I recommend this book for you “Context Blindness: Digital Technology and the Next Stage of Human Evolution (Understanding Media Ecology, 10)” January 25, 2022 by Eva Berger.
Emphasis on “Understanding Media Ecology” in the title. I also teach Media Ecology over on !MediaEcology@lemm.ee
Blocked
“Mocks your postings on Lemmy, then blocks you when you call out their mocking” - information warfare strategy. I call it “Mock you, Block You”.
Very common bait tactic, to come in with noise and pro-Russian behavior when you post about Kremlin information warfare.
The first “mock you” comment in the message posting was:
“Tell us about the timecube, please.”
They waste a bunch of my time with insults and mocking, then declare “I’m blocking you”. This is the information warfare pattern of behavior.
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Russia-watcher Catherine Fitzpatrick, who documents Kremlin disinformation for InterpreterMag . com, says just as Moscow uses vague Internet laws to encourage self-censorship, trolls inhibit informed debate by using crude dialogue to change “the climate of discussion.” “If you show up at The Washington Post or New Republic sites, where there’s an article that’s critical of Russia, and you see that there are 200 comments that sound like they were written by 12-year-olds, then you just don’t bother to comment,” she says. “You don’t participate. It’s a way of just driving discussion away completely,” she adds. “Those kinds of tactics are meant to stop democratic debate, and they work.” - The Atlantic, The Kremlin’s Troll Army. Moscow is financing legions of pro-Russia Internet commenters. Daisy Sindelar. August 12, 2014