he was a closeted, self-hating, practicing homosexual

https://youtu.be/BgcoezmsPMs

Just a heads up, Sxan, but the FLX1s should be available, now. They started shipping during the last few days of December and mine got delivered 2 days ago (still two days before I can pick it up from where it was dropped off but’s specific just to me).

I expected (hoped?) you’d educate yourself a bit; there’s a wealth of information and research and theory on this subject so it’s not like you have an excuse to so wildly misuse terminology which is well-known and well-defined. Continuing to use “racism” without defining what race is is cartoonish but I did hope for more from you; I guess, at least, good faith. Oh, well.

For others who come across this thread and would like creators who sometimes cover these topics with some depth, here’s some video essayists:

https://www.youtube.com/@FDSignifire

https://www.youtube.com/@olurinatti

https://www.youtube.com/@lilbilliam

https://www.youtube.com/@Princess_Weekes

https://www.youtube.com/@KatBlaque/videos

https://www.youtube.com/@jouelzy/videos

I expect, at this point, we will just agree to disagree and there’s no way we’ll see eye to eye but no: it’s very much not. Race is an ill-defined social construct whereas xenophobia is based on prejudice against cultural and national lines and, while those are also socially constructed, they are more concrete than the boundaries of “race”.

As such, racism seeks to (and is more defined by its attempt to) construct a sense of identity against something to maintain a status quo (hence why the definition of “white” has been able to expand to include ethnicity such as the Irish) to better position itself against others.

While cultures and ethnicities can certainly change over time, they’re not remotely as nebulous (and made up) as race is and, thus, don’t operate in that same way; people are also much more invested in cultures and ethnicities beyond reasons of maintaining hegemonic status quo so that impacts things, as well.

That would be xenophobia; not racism.

I also never said that Europeans were a pest or plague; as I said in the previous comment, “My only response was that you statement that Europe’s history of colonization is still relevant.” You never alleged that I was saying that Europeans were a pest or plague (probably because I never said that) so I was never attempting to refute such a claim.

Europe’s a race, now?

My only response was that you statement that Europe’s history of colonization (which, again, isn’t even true as Europe still has colonies) is still relevant as the effects of that colonization is still present today.

Something you haven’t refuted or even contested; how is acknowledging history racist?

If you strip the land of resources when you owned it such that people can no longer use it, your colonization of that land – while in the past – is still relevant to the people now trying to eke out an existence on that land.

Playing prescriptivist with definitions isn’t going to absolve Europe of the still ongoing effects that their colonization has caused.

Also…Europe still has colonies/territories (https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1er0god/european_overseas_territories_outside_europe/); so your entire argument doesn’t even hold up, to begin with. Europe’s still colonizing.

Is there a definition of relevant that, for you, doesn’t include the impacts and effects of the thing in question?

Are you going to argue to me with a straight face that the only relevant aspects we should be concerned about with colonialism is whether ownership is current and active?

You’d be correct; a country which suffered from colonialism by a European country; the effects of which continue today. Therefore, the effects of colonialism by at least one European country is still relevant.

You said colonialism by Europe isn’t relevant in the modern age.

If France wants to reimburse Haiti for the independence debt, it’s welcome to start at any time; I’d hardly begin to say that colonialism isn’t relevant – even in the modern age –, for Europe.

I know it’s not the main point but why does li’l’ bro have a condom for a chin?

Yeah; this one’s been my experience, as well.

https://soatok.blog/2024/08/14/security-issues-in-matrixs-olm-library/

This is the most strongly written writeup I know of (whether it’s something you, likewise, find worth being wary about is, naturally, up to you, though).

Ahh; that makes much more sense.

As much as I’d like to think I’m generally in the loop of Lemmy lore, I’m afraid I don’t understand the connection.

Not to stereotype too much but I think this is the first Blåhaj I’ve seen (in a programming context) that wasn’t team Rust.

What your programming language of choice (if you don’t mind sharing)?

Get some help

That’s what the horse electrolytes are for (I imagine he’d say).