#PoliticsFascismNaziThirdReich #LegislationUS1791ConstAmdt2RightToBearArms #HandleTikTokConservativeImmigrantBogdanLaurentiu https://www.tiktok.com/@conservative.immigrant1/video/7243616520465648938 #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism #ReasoningFallacyOversimplificationCausalReductionism
Context: #OrgUSHerBoldMoveIleanaPaulesBronetAKAIleanaJustine https://www.tiktok.com/@ileana.justine/video/7235297299914591531 #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOP + #TheoryRevisionismHistorical
Supplementary: this #JournalInternationalJournalOfCommunicationIJOC paper on self-selection bias seems useful here: https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/13496/3252
Addendum: this strategy of selectively choosing and commenting on others' videos reminds me of the problem in teaching of #TheoryPedagogyColdCalling where such selectivity privileges particular (generally, the loudest but not always the most considered) viewpoints i.e. https://teacherhead.com/2021/02/07/cold-calling-the-1-strategy-for-inclusive-classrooms-remote-and-in-person/ Additionally, this #PhenomnReactionVideo is clearly being used as a vehicle for Laurentiu to proffer his own views i.e. #ReasoningFallacyConfirmationBias without threat of being criticised (because those following/commenting/sharing his posts are #ReasoningFallacyOfIncompleteEvidenceSelfSelectionBias self-selecting). #PowerControlMicrofascismBullyingCyberTrolling
#IRLDeceasedGeorgeFloyd #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism #PowerControlChattelSlavery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade
Context: #PowerControlBarbaryCaptivityNarratives
"The fact that until the end of the 1620s more Britons lived in North Africa than North America is largely overlooked, and historians have concentrated instead on the looming prizes of the New World rather than the allure and danger of the Barbary states. North African privateers--largely driven by western maritime technology and renegade captives from Europe--regularly captured English and colonial sailing vessels, and the captives were frequently exchanged for much needed hard currency. The slave traffic, of course, ran in both directions as British and Maltese corsairs captured 'Barbary Pirates,' and the exchange of captives became regularized and an important aspect of the Mediterranean economy. Matar theorizes that the North African conflict received little attention by contemporary writers simply because Europeans were often overpowered at sea and, as he has shown in his earlier work, Christians regularly converted to Islam. " https://networks.h-net.org/node/16749/reviews/17709/baepler-vitkus-piracy-slavery-and-redemption-barbary-captivity And https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/barbary-wars/captivity-narratives/ #ToponymEmpireOttoman #ToponymAfricaNorthBarbaryCoast i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Coast
#OrgClassifPPGHNationalDemocraticCongressNDCSamNarteyGeorge "they really have need for it but it's the hypocrisy of the US where they call homosexuality a human rights issue in Africa but yet they are doing business with countries where homosexuality is frowned upon over a billion dollars of of of of of military hardware is so to cut almost on a yearly basis in Qatar homosexuality is punished by Death not imprisonment why are they not threatening cut up one of the biggest trading partners of the United States government is Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia it's punished by Death why are they not threatening them why are they not threatening Russia then they come to Ghana and Africa they won't come and treating us with LGBTQ the American government is a bunch of Hypocrites if they really want to flex their muscle they should reflect their muscle on Russia." https://www.tiktok.com/@africanstream/video/7217894591163370757 And #WebsiteNairaland https://www.nairaland.com/7630962/uganda-president-hits-back-president#122368079 #TauntHypocrisyLiberal #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyKamalaHarris #ToponymAfricaGhana #HandleTelegramInfoDefense i.e. https://t.me/s/infodefall
Context: #AdvocacyUKInstituteForStrategicDialogueISD "Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, jurisdictions and tech platforms around the world have taken steps to prevent or limit the spread of Russian propaganda internationally. There is, however, an additional constraint hampering the efforts of Russia and its supporters in spreading disinformation: language.
This Dispatch investigates a coordinated network of volunteers working to translate existing Russian-language propaganda and disinformation about the war in Ukraine into over a dozen languages. This includes content from pro-Kremlin influencers, particularly the controversial Ukrainian blogger Yuri Podolyaka, as well as Russian state media sources. The volunteers, who have branded themselves 'Info Defense', operate Telegram channels for each of the target languages. They also administer specifically-branded Info Defense accounts on YouTube, and disseminate their content across the major international social media networks through a multitude of smaller accounts.
The significance of this network is at the base level in which it functions : a grassroots, relatively decentralised and cost-free network for the translation and distribution of propaganda. This model may appeal to both state- and non-state actors seeking to promote narratives and content to international audiences, and is likely to pose a challenge for platform content moderation efforts....
In a video message promoting the newly formed translation network, Podolyaka elaborated on the role which he saw himself and his supporters playing in support of Russia's war in Ukraine. He spoke at length about the way in which media coverage and information about the war in Vietnam helped to deplete domestic support for the war in the US, ultimately leading to the US's defeat and retreat from Vietnam. According to Podolyaka, if the public in Western countries only knew that Russia was really fighting against evil Nazis in Ukraine, they would force their governments to abandon the fight, as they did in Vietnam. 'This is the truth that they want to hide from their societies, and our task is to bring this truth to them,' he said." https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/the-info-defense-network-crowdsourcing-soldiers-for-the-information-war/ #IRLYouTuberYuriPodolyaka #2022_InvasionOfUkraine #PhenomnPropagandaDisinformation #ToponymEuropeUkraineDonbasDonetskPeoplesRepublicDPR #ToponymEuropeUkraineDonbasLuhanskPeoplesRepublicLPR #HandleTelegramTheEyeOfTheStormTEOS #HandleTelegramTheNodeOfTime
#VlogCommonsence7885
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Wjx44gRwQ
#NarrativeWarAmericaVietnam
#NarrativeDenazification
#MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseMainstreamMediaMSM
#NMRURussiaTodayRTMargaritaSimonyan
#PhenomnTalkingPointsRussian
#PhenomnAccordNetworkDecentralised
#NMUSFOXFNCTuckerCarlson
Supplementary: #BrandGraphikaBenNimmo, #BrandGraphikaIraHubert and #BrandGraphikaYangCheng "The sprawling pro-Chinese propaganda network that Graphika has dubbed 'Spamouflage' and exposed multiple times over the past two years has begun to break out of its echo chamber of fake accounts and reach real social media users, including some heavyweight influencers, with hundreds of videos that praise China, criticize the United States, and attack the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement and exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui.
The network's successes are still sporadic - a few tweets have reached viral influencers, and a few dozen videos on YouTube channels have garnered significant followings - but, for the first time, its content has had measurable reach. Moreover, the audiences it has reached are widespread and include influencers in Latin America, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong. Combined with the sheer scale of the network, and the fact that it has reconstituted itself after repeated takedowns, these features mark Spamouflage as a persistent and increasingly assertive online presence with a limited but growing ability to engage real users." https://graphika.com/reports/spamouflage-breakout #PhenomnSpamouflageDragon
Elise Thomas, Albert Zhang and Jake Wallis (2020). 'Viral videos Covid-19, China and Inauthentic Influence on Facebook', Australian Strategic Policy Institute. https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep26080 https://voxukraine.org/en/fake-the-dead-girl-in-a-photograph-from-bucha-turned-out-to-be-alive-and-denied-her-death/ #ToponymEuropeUkraineKyivOblastBucha #EpistemologyAmateurParticipatoryDisinformation #_Focal
#2022_InvasionOfUkraine #PhenomnDeprivationHomelessness #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism #IRLYouTuberAlexStein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CkZaaoi17Y #ToponymAmericaNorthUSWashingtonDC #IRLComedianEstebanRomeroAKADontarius i.e. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14558366/
Addendum: despite appearing to be coincidence, 'Dontarius' the homeless man, is actually a comedian - being platformed by YouTuber Stein. #MetaphorDeceitFakeReality
Incidentally, searches for the video's poster-frame throw up multiple Russian sites where the clip has been shared - presumably, because its narrative fits a #PoliticsNationalismRussian worldview. Given this, I wonder how much awareness Stein had of this and how this may have played into his planning?
"Ah, Gihslain, eternal whataboutism. You always forget in your lists the friends Mussolini, Franco, Videla, Pinochet and so many others. In Bariloche, Flemish woke, collaborators fleeing anti-Flemish racism could continue to experience their religion as refugees." #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism #ToponymAmericaSouthArgentinaSanCarlosDeBariloche #ToponymEuropeBelgiumVlaamsGewest #OrgClassifPPITPartitoNazionaleFascistaPNFBenitoMussolini #IRLDictatorFranciscoFranco #IRLDictatorJorgeRafaelVidela #ToponymAmericaSouthArgentina #IRLDictatorAugustoPinochet #ToponymAmericaSouthChile
"In answer: Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot together accounted for more than a hundred million murders in the twentieth century... the Gulag, the killing fields, the cultural revolution... we will remain silent about North Korea for the time being..." #IRLDictatorJosephStalin #IRLHistoricalFigureChairmanMaoZedong #OrgClassifPPKHKhmerRougePolPot #PowerControlUnfreeLabourGULAG #OrgClassifPPKHKhmerRougeKillingFields #PhenomnRevolutionCultural #ToponymAsiaEastNorthKorea
#OtheringDiscriminationRacism #TheoryRacialColourBlindness #IRLActorIdrisElba #TauntBaizuo i.e. https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-Chinese-word-Baizuo-refer-to/answer/Hu-Shi-Xiong
Addendum: seemingly receiving #PhenomnWhiteGuiltAbsolution from two actors (who are otherwise enemies i.e. #OtheringElitesHollywood) because what they say fits your #PoliticsStatusQuoBias (because what they say can be used as a #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism to avoid responsibility).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvNQ36MlQ6I
#Policy15MinuteCityFMC15mC
#OrgIntlWEFKlausSchwab
#OrgIntlUNSDG
#IdentityLGBTQIATrans
#PhenomnFamilyPlanning
#MetaphorEyeOfProvidence
#LiteralFoodEdibleInsects
#ToponymEuropeFranceParis
#ToponymOceaniaAustraliaVicMelbourne
#TheoryConstitutionalLawOriginalism
#LegislationUS1791ConstAmdt2RightToBearArms
#AdvocacyUSMisesInstituteForAustrianEconomics
#ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism
#OrgClassifPPKHKhmerRougePolPot
#IRLDictatorJosephStalin
#IRLHistoricalFigureChairmanMaoZedong
#PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler
"GUN LAWS SAVE LIVES" #AdvocacyUSEverytown i.e. https://www.everytown.org/actions/
#ReasoningFallacyConfirmationBiasIToldYouSo / #CatchcryGunsDontKillPeoplePeopleKillPeople
#ToponymAmericaNorthUSTexasUvalde
#IRLActorMatthewMcConaughey
#MetaphorZombie
#WebsiteInfoWarsAlexJones
#IRLEntrepreneurHunterBiden
#AdvocacyUSTheNationalCenterForConstitutionalStudiesAKATheFreemanInstitute i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Constitutional_Studies
#IRLActivistJulianAssange
#NMUSFOXFNCTuckerCarlson
#1973_RoeVersusWade
#OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSClarenceThomas
#PleaRighteous
#LiteralFieldEconomicsInflation
Context: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2024/apr/06/why-has-15-minute-city-taken-off-paris-toxic-idea-uk-carlos-moreno
#OrgClassifPPTRAdaletVeKalkinmaPartisiAKPRecepTayyipErdogan #ReasoningFallacyOfRelativePrivation #ToponymEmpireOttoman #OrgIntlWEF #OrgClassifPPNLVolkspartijVoorVrijheidEnDemocratieVVDMarkRutte #PowerControlViolationRape #PhenomnBrexitNexit i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_withdrawal_from_the_European_Union
Addendum: this seems to be an #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism i.e. 'while we must take responsibility for our past mistakes, we weren't the only ones who are #PhenomnResponsibilityCulpability.ble'...
#WorksInspectionOfTheNewArrivalsAKAChoosingTheFavourite by #IRLPainterGiulioRosati i.e. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Rosati https://www.artnet.com/artists/giulio-rosati/choosing-the-favourite-BS7p1tdoFH5rxDXvG0MQvg2 #PowerControlBarbaryCaptivityNarratives #PowerControlChattelSlavery
Supplementary: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vente_d%27esclaves_au_Caire #PhenomnCulturalFormOrientalism
Addendum: for some, this is image likely causes offence because it represents an #MetaphorThreatIdeological in the way that it challenges the deeply #OtheringDiscriminationRacism.ist idea of a #MetaphorHierarchyStratificationRacial i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_hierarchy and #MetaphorPurityRacial. This relates to the following concepts: #MetaphorPurityRacialWhiteWomenAndBlackMen #TheoryAffectiveResponseNarrative #OtheringHateIslamophobiaAntiMuslim #TheoryVictimhoodWhiteThymos
#IRLDeceasedAutumnPasquale #IRLMurdererJustinRobinson
Context: "Justin Robinson doesn't deny strangling Autumn in his parents' basement on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012, and then hiding her body.
'I'm deeply sorry,' Robinson says. 'I didn't really want this to happen. If I could take it back I would.' But, he says, 'I didn't kill her for no bike.'" https://www.nj.com/news/2018/03/a_killer_explains_slaying_of_a_child_i_didnt_kill.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwtDCU3o5LI&t=3s #2012_ #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism #IRLDeceasedTrayvonMartin i.e. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/07/31/631897758/a-look-back-at-trayvon-martins-death-and-the-movement-it-inspired
Supplementary: "Conjured by the minds of enslavers and auctioneers to promote the strength, breeding ability, and agility of muscular young black men, the Mandingo trope was born. While under the violence of enslavement, a physically powerful black man could be subdued and brutally forced into labor. Emancipation brought with it fears that these men would exact sexual revenge against white men through their daughters, as depicted in the film 'Birth of a Nation' (1915). The reinforcement of the stereotype of the Mandingo as animalistic and brutish, gave legal authority to white mobs and militias who tortured and killed black men for the safety of the public." https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/popular-and-pervasive-stereotypes-african-americans #OtheringCaricatureSlaveryMandingo #1915_BirthOfANation
Addendum: #TheoryAffectiveResponseNarrative about #MetaphorPurityRacialWhiteWomenAndBlackMen / #OtheringCaricatureSlaveryBrute
"Jerry king luther Afriyie & Akwasi owusu Ansah
Both of Ghanaian descent Both from the Ashanti tribe, the most gruesome tribe of Ghana known as the greatest slave traders ever come to tell us that BLACK PETE IS NO GOOD ???" #IRLActivistJerryAfriyieAKAKnowledgeCesare #IRLSportspersonAkwasiOwusuAnsah #TauntHypocrisy #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism #ToponymAfricaGhana #PowerControlChattelSlavery #FictionalCharacterZwartePiet
#IRLFilmmakerTravisBrown: "Combating woke myths 'you can't understand 'X' because of your white privilege'"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9wDHbizYIc #2021_TheWokeReformation #PhenomnWhitePrivilege #NarrativeTruthHypothetical
Context: "When someone tells you that you can't understand something because you have white privilege or any other kind of privilege, what they're saying is that they think you should not comment on a social phenomenon because of your group identity. The first thing to do is to repeat their statement to ensure you understood it correctly. Then you can ask something like, I'm really curious how you know that all white people have privilege, isn't privilege something that would be context dependent? If they say no and that all white people have privilege, then you can ask, would a poor white child with severe social anxiety who goes to a mostly black school really have white privilege? Or what about those white farmers who were driven off their lands in Zimbabwe in the early 2000s, did they have white privilege? Listen to their reply and follow up with, let's say I agreed that all white people have some kind of privilege, I still don't know why that would prevent them from understanding and empathising with people who aren't white shouldn't we treat everyone as unique individuals and avoid judging them based on their skin colour. If they're not willing to consider your questions and repeat themselves or resort to personal attacks you can simply say you don't accept their assertions as true and move on." #ReasoningFallacyFalseEquivalence #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism #PhenomnSkinColour And: https://www.dw.com/en/zimbabwe-compensates-white-farmers-with-billions/a-54395238 #ToponymAfricaZimbabwe #IRLHistoricalFigureRobertMugabe
"Hey Woke :
Shouldn't we be talking about 'cultural appropriation' here if, for the same reason, white people shouldn't wear Rastas?
No, we don't have to! You see it yourself, don't you?
Oktoberfest2022 FCBayern" #PhenomnCulturalAppropriation
#EventOktoberfest #ToponymEuropeGermanyBavariaMunich #OrgDEFssballClubBayernMunchen i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Bayern_Munich 'Rastas' = #SymbolHairstyleDreadlocks ?
this sets out a #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism based on a #PoliticsNationalismEthno assumption that being #ToponymEuropeGermanyBavaria.n necessitates that you're white. The logic follows, that if #IdentityBlack people are not criticised for dressing 'white', then #IdentityWhite people shouldn't be criticised for their #PhenomnCulturalAppropriation of the cultures of others. Significantly, #IRLSportspersonDayotUpamecano is French i.e. "is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the France national team" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayot_Upamecano Given this, cultural appropriation tends to have an 'exploitative' dimension to it i.e. that those appropriating tend to be doing so to gain advantage (from those whose culture is being appropriated) - so, in the sense, any such appropriation would be deemed trivial (surely).
#ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism i.e. #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump isn't a #SlurWhiteSupremacy.icist if non-white i.e. #PhenomnMulticulturalism people support him. #TheoryRacialColourBlindnessSomeOfMyBestFriendsAreBlack
Supplementary: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/sunday-review/ralph-northam-blackface-friends.html
"everything goes when the USA is behind it!
behind Winnetou there are only Indians & children and that doesn't count...
woke & the green manure should be eradicated!" #FictionalCharacterWinnetou #OrgClassifPPDEBundnis90DieGrunen ?
"That's right, because everyone can and should be allowed to dress/style themselves as they want. Imagine if there were a decree that traditional costumes could only be worn by white Germans/Bavarians. Would that also be woke ? I do not think so."
Addendum: this sets out a #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism based on a #PoliticsNationalismEthno assumption that being German/Bavarian necessitates that you're white. The logic follows, that if #IdentityBlack people are not criticised for dressing 'white', then #IdentityWhite people shouldn't be criticised for their #PhenomnCulturalAppropriation of the cultures of others. Significantly, #IRLSportspersonDavidAlaba is Austrian (born in #ToponymEuropeAustriaVienna ) and #IRLCampaignManagerShalimarHeppner is German (born in Bavaria's capital city, #ToponymEuropeGermanyBavariaMunich ) i.e. neither are positioned 'outside' of the culture they're presenting here (and so, by definition they're not appropriating #ToponymEuropeGermanyBavaria.n culture).
#SymbolTrachtLederhosen #SymbolTrachtDirndl
Context: https://www.alamy.de/munchen-bayern-07-okt-2018-david-alaba-und-seine-freundin-shalimar-heppner-der-kafer-zelt-auf-dem-oktoberfest-auf-der-theresienwiese-spieler-trainer-und-manager-des-fussball-erstligisten-fc-bayern-traditionell-besuchen-sie-die-kafer-zelt-zusammen-einmal-wahrend-des-oktoberfestes-credit-matthias-balkdpaalamy-leben-nachrichten-image221438115.html #2018_ #EventOktoberfest
#NMAUSkyNewsAustraliaJamesMorrow #NMAUSkyNewsAustraliaRitaPanahi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGXwBwCh3IE #TauntHypocrisyLiberal #IRLSingerSongwriterTaylorSwift #LiteralVehicleAeroplanePrivateJet #PhenomnClimateChangeCarbonFootprint #NewspaperUSTabloidNewYorkPost #CharacterisationDerivativeWorkRegurgitatedNewsChurnalism #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism #MetaphorVersusUsThem #PleaGetGoWokeGoBroke #IRLSocialiteKylieJenner
#PowerControlChattelSlavery http://independentfilmnewsandmedia.com/the-east-african-slave-trade-when-will-the-arabs-be-asked-for-reparations-video/ #VlogHistoryDebunkedSimonWebb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t85dxIjpriQ
Context: https://gab.com/IFNM #ReasoningFallacyOfRelativePrivation
Addendum: there is a particular narrative around slavery, which seeks to absolve those responsible for such historical injustices through a #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism that tries to shift the blame onto other groups. One version of this approach is to offer up a #TheoryRomanticism.cised (and somewhat, sexualised) view as per: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Slave_Market_(G%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_painting)
"kinderarbeid in de Twentse textiel [child labour in textiles in Twente, Overijssel, Netherlands]". #PowerControlExploitationChildLabour
Context: #NewspaperNLBrdshtDeTwentscheCourantTubantiaHermanHaverkate https://www.tubantia.nl/enschede-e-o/basisonderwijs-aan-de-slag-met-slavernij-ook-overijssel-profiteerde-van-slavernij~abfae353/
"We would have a lot diversity in the world - without excessive, harmful migration and crude distortion of the confused. GoWokeGoBroke Woke CancelCulture" #PhenomnImmigration #PleaGetGoWokeGoBroke #TauntCultureCancel
#OtheringOutGroup #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI #MetaphorVersusPurityAdulteration / #MetaphorPurityContamination #ConspiracyTheoryGreatReplacement ? versus #TheoryCodedFemininityOver #PoliticsNationalismRomantic #SymbolTrachtDirndl #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych
"The German flagged Seacod oil tanker moored at Birkenhead Docks near the Stanlow Oil Refinery, on March 5." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-05/u-k-refinery-workers-refuse-to-handle-incoming-russian-oil i.e. #TauntHypocrisyLiberal ?
#ReasoningFallacyAdHominemPersonalAttack #IRLPhilosopherMartinHeidegger #IRLPhilosopherMichelFoucault #IRLPhilosopherJacquesDerrida #IRLPlaywrightJeanPaulSartre
Supplementary: #IRLFilmmakerJeanLucGodard #1967_DeuxOuTroisChosesQueJeSaisDElle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0i8XR9Cztc&t=79s #IRLPhilosopherLudwigWittgenstein
Addendum: this is known as a #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism and an example of #EpistemologyAmateurExegeteAbduction e.g. "cultural theory is evil because Heidegger was a Nazi and he was a cultural theorist".
#MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseMainstreamMediaMSM
Context: https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/what-are-the-real-stats-on-black/comment/331279?s=r
Addendum: (as per hashtag above) presumably the tweet is responding to #MassShooting2022BuffaloSupermarket i.e. a #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism to distract away from this shooting's racial profile i.e. a #SlurWhiteSupremacy.ist murdering #IdentityAmericanBlackAndAfrican.s. It also functions as a rebuff for criticism that #LegislationUS1791ConstAmdt2RightToBearArms is central to the problem i.e. that 100% of shootings are the result of people who have a gun(s) in their possession.
#ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism comparing #PolicyRightsWomensReproductive i.e. #NarrativeAbortion and #LiteralVaccine / #OtheringOutGroupAntiVaxxer #MemeFickiFiona #CatchcryMyBodyMyChoice
Addendum: arguably, the former only concerns the individual and their immediate family whereas the latter concerns the collective/society through failing to protect others.
#OtheringOutGroup #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI #MetaphorVersusPurityAdulteration / #MetaphorPurityContamination #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych
Supplementary: "When it comes to estimating the size of demographic groups, Americans rarely get it right. In two recent YouGov polls, we asked respondents to guess the percentage (ranging from 0% to 100%) of American adults who are members of 43 different groups, including racial and religious groups, as well as other less frequently studied groups, such as pet owners and those who are left-handed.
When people's average perceptions of group sizes are compared to actual population estimates, an intriguing pattern emerges: Americans tend to vastly overestimate the size of minority groups. This holds for sexual minorities, including the proportion of gays and lesbians (estimate: 30%, true: 3%), bisexuals (estimate: 29%, true: 4%), and people who are transgender (estimate: 21%, true: 0.6%). " https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/03/15/americans-misestimate-small-subgroups-population #BrandYouGovTaylorOrth #OtheringStereotypeSocialIdentity ? e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/social-identity-theory #BrandYouGov
Addendum: (in relation to the upper image) this really is a caricature of diversity i.e. a narrow stereotype used to represent a diverse range. So this is really more a case of #OtheringOutGroup, where the intention is to provoke a sense of disgust and #ReasoningFallacyConfirmationBias
'collaborator' i.e. #MetaphorWarfareTraitor to describe #OtheringCaricatureBrexitRemainer.s #OrgClassifPPUKLabourKeirStarmer #TheoryDeterminismBiologicalPhysiological
Context: this tweet is in response to criticism of #OrgClassifPPUKConservatives' #ToponymAfricaRwanda #PhenomnImmigration plan i.e. it's a #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism
Supplementary: #WebsiteTheConversationBenjaminCurtis "In philosophy, an argument is a reasoned debate aimed at truth. But in many other contexts, people often do not view arguments in this way. They view them, rather, as battles to be won. Their goal is to get their opponent to concede as much as possible without their conceding anything themselves.
Viewed in this way, whataboutism is an effective strategy. It works on the principle that offence is the best form of defence. By launching a counter-attack, you place your opponent on the back foot." https://theconversation.com/whataboutism-what-it-is-and-why-its-such-a-popular-tactic-in-arguments-182911 #MetaphorWarfareCounterattack
#OrgClassifPPUKLabour #PhenomnMisconduct
Addendum: this appears to be an 'attack ad' - part of a #PhenomnSmearCampaign / negative campaigning designed to dissuade potential voters from voting UK Labour in the lead-up to the May 2022 local elections i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_Kingdom_local_elections
Through reflecting on the focus of issues listed here (and its general tone), it's clear that it's targeting social conservative interests / worldview.
Context: "Now is it cultural appropriation when BIPOC call their plica polonica dreads or dreadlocks? I have no idea and I don't care because that woke toxicity isn't my thing." #IdentityIndigenousBlackPeopleOfColourBIPOC #PhenomnCulturalAppropriation #MetaphorWokeToxicity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_plait
Addendum: this feels like a #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism argument seems to point to #NarrativeTruthImmutableUniversalIncontrovertibleAbsolute position i.e. that regardless of contemporary issues and debates, there is ultimately a singular truth (and that the presentation of such should end any further, subsequent discussion). From this perspective, truths take no account of cultural contingencies as we ultimately live in #PleaAWorldOfSimpleStableFixedOperations #TheoryInstrumentalism
#TauntClimateAlarmists #LiteralSchoolCollegeUniversityPhD #ConditionInferiorityComplex
Context: offered up as a criticism of a tweeter who claims to have a PhD i.e. #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism argument (where the #IRLScientistFreemanDyson statement is used as criticism of the PhD qualification).
Context: #ReasoningFallacyArgumentFromAuthority i.e. "These fallacious arguments from authority are the result of citing a non-authority as an authority." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
"'The first slaves shipped to the Americans Colonies in 1619 were 100 white children from Ireland,' reads the text of an image shared on Facebook on June 20. 'Truth matters.'" #PowerControlChattelSlavery #ToponymEuropeIreland #1619_ #PowerControlBarbaryCaptivityNarratives
Context: "No, the first slaves shipped to the American colonies weren't white Irish children" https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jun/28/viral-image/no-first-slaves-shipped-american-colonies-werent-w/
Supplementary: https://history.ucsd.edu/_files/undergraduate/honors-theses/Slaves-To-A-Myth.pdf #PoliticsNationalismWhite #TheoryVictimhoodWhiteThymos #NarrativeTruthFabricationIrishSlaves #ReasoningFallacyOfRelativePrivation https://limerick1914.medium.com/factcheck-were-the-irish-the-first-slaves-in-america-e0df2f6a6e73 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_slaves_myth https://developmenteducation.ie/feature/were-irish-people-the-first-slaves-in-america/ https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/the-myth-of-the-irish-slave-white-supremacy-and-social-media/
Addendum: #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism where the prospect of 'white slavery' is used to diminish the reality of actual slavery. The statement's logic betrays a particular preponderance with skin colour where the mere act of switching from black to white is used to diminish the significance of the atrocity - following a logic along the lines of: "because there were white slaves before black slaves then it is no longer worth considering the plight (and therefore consequence for the ancestors of) black slaves" - in short, the history and historical consequences of slavery aren't worth consideration...
#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSBarackObama #ConspiracyTheoryObamaMichelleTransMan
Context: https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1085915185146150912 i.e. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/michelle-obama-christmas-tree/
Supplementary: the full image includes a newspaper with the following headlines: "Gorbachev asks... Mama Ngina Drive now a monument", which according to this: "Mama Ngina Drive Public Park was gazetted in 1991 as a historical monument and degazzetted again in 2004 under the Antiquities and Monuments and Museum Act." https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211683456 strongly indicates that the photo was taken in #1991_ during Barack and Michelle's visit to #ToponymAfricaKenyaMombasa i.e. https://nairobinews.nation.africa/michelle-obama-upset-first-visit-kenya/ And https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/15/michelle-obama-pays-tribute-barack-moving-untold-story-9201937/ And https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/agzc2r/barack_and_michelle_obama_1989/
#IdentityClassBlueCollarWhite #PhenomnWhitePrivilege #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism
Context: #1936_ #IRLPhotographerDorotheaLange 'People living in miserable poverty, Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma' i.e. https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3c29107/?st=image #ToponymAmericaNorthUSOklahomaAdairCountyElmGrove
#AdvocacyUSCapitalResearchCenterRobMontz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB8817g26Ig
"Dangerous Documentaries was founded in 2016 by Joseph (Jake) Klein as the media arm of the Washington, D.C. based Capital Research Center." https://www.dangerousdocumentaries.com/about-dangerous-documentaries/
#Cause1619Project #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesNikoleHannahJones #PowerControlChattelSlavery #1776_USDeclarationOfIndependence4thOfJuly #IRLScholarGeraldHorne #IRLHistoricalFigureRobertMugabe #IRLHistoricalFigureFidelCastro
Geopolitical Catastrophe
#IRLDictatorJosephStalin #PowerControlExploitationHumanTrafficking #IRLActivistMartinLutherKingMLK #IRLScholarGordonWood #WebsiteWorldSocialistWebSiteWSWS
#IRLActivistRobertWoodson
#ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism
#ReasoningFallacyAdHominemPersonalAttack
"Iceni Lives Matter" slogan = #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism #ReasoningFallacyOfRelativePrivation #IRLAuthorVernonMoyse ?
#TauntHypocrisyLiberal #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism #1997_Amistad i.e. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118607/
Context: #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianKateHodal "Globally, more than half of the 40.3 million victims (24.9 million) are in forced labour, which means they are working against their will and under threat, intimidation or coercion. An additional 15.4 million people are estimated to be living in forced marriages.
Of the 24.9 million people trapped in forced labour, the majority (16 million) work in the private sector. Slaves clean houses and flats; produce the clothes we wear; pick the fruit and vegetables we eat; trawl the seas for the shrimp on our restaurant plates; dig for the minerals used in our smartphones, makeup and electric cars; and work on construction jobs building infrastructure for the 2022 Qatar World Cup.
Another 4.8 million people working in forced labour are estimated to be sexually exploited, while roughly 4.1 million people are in state-sanctioned forced labour, which includes governmental abuse of military conscription and forced construction or agricultural work. In certain countries such as Mauritania, people are born into 'hereditary' slavery if their mother was a slave.
Again, women and girls bear the brunt of these statistics, comprising 99% of all victims in the commercial sex industry, and 58% in other sectors, according to the ILO." https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/25/modern-slavery-trafficking-persons-one-in-200 #ToponymAfricaNorthwestMauritania
#PhenomnCulturalAppropriation #SymbolHairstyleBraidsCornrows #MemeMyCultureIsNotYourHairstyle
Supplementary: #PlatformSMYahooBethGreenfield "Part of the problem is how people discuss such instances of appropriation -- being reactive, case by case, rather than looking at the systemic inequalities behind the issue, the researcher and many others say.
'I don't find there to be a sophisticated debate about cultural appropriation in the media,' British critic and writer Afua Hirsch told George Chesterton in a GQ UK in a September 2020 story prompted by Adele being photographed in a Jamaica-flag bikini and bantu knots. 'It's less the act and more the ignorance behind it that is the issue,' Chesterton wrote, further quoting Hirsch, who said, 'I'm often asked to come on TV whenever a pop star wears cornrows and defend the idea that I would like to police their hairstyle. There is little interest in the broader picture of imperial racism and white supremacy that forms the context. So it ends up being a reductive conversation about whether it's OK for white people to do something, which is not my business.'" https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/non-black-celebrities-olivia-rodrigo-blaccent-appropriation-135706807.html #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianAfuaHirsch #IRLScholarDeandreMilesHercules #MagazineGQUKGeorgeChesterton #IRLSingerAdeleAdkins + #SymbolEmblemFlagJM.bikini + #SymbolHairstyleBantuKnots
Addendum: #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism, which positions biological features, such as blonde hair in relation to one's culture i.e. a #TheoryDeterminismBiologicalGenetic argument (which is central to the whole idea of race in the first place). #_Focal
"Julius Caesar enslaved 1,000,000 Gauls and Celts.
Isn't it time we took his name off the salad?"
#IRLHistoricalFigureJuliusCaesar
#ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism
#ReasoningFallacyReductioAdAbsurdum
Context: https://www.quora.com/Did-Julius-Caesar-really-slaughter-hundreds-of-thousands-of-Gauls-Celtic-people-from-France-or-is-it-untrue
#TheoryMarxism #TauntCultureCancel #CatchcryIdentityPolitics #CauseAntifa
Addendum: #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism #CatchcryLivesMatterAllALM used to substantiate a conservative interpretation of the #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM cause i.e. that such an imperative contravenes the more general principle to respect everyone (consciously and conveniently choosing to ignore the fact that we live in a society, which exerts disproportionate prejudice for particular groups) i.e. #OtheringDiscriminationRacismSystemicInstitutional
#PhenomnColonialism #MetaphorPeriodization19thCentury #PhenomnStatueToppling #VlogAlMuqaddimahSyawishRehman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OdIqeWkhHU&t=55s #PowerControlBarbaryCaptivityNarratives #PowerControlChattelSlavery #PhenomnCulturalFormOrientalism #IRLPainterJeanLeonGerome #1871_VenteDEsclavesAuCaireAKATheSlaveMarket #PhenomnColonialism #BeliefIslamism #IdentityArab #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism #ToponymAfricaEast #ToponymAfricaWestAfrica
#TauntLeftLoony #TauntLeftwaffe #TVSpittingImage
Context: response to #NewspaperUKTabloidTheDailyStar article about #IRLActorNishKumar.
Context: #IRLAuthorVernonMoyse
"Problem is Kung-flu is a masterful piece of lampooning, that lost art which saw Victorians cartooning farting Kings and politicians in Punch magazine. The PC world, the hijackers of words like ISLAMOPHOBE (of sound provenance dating back to Greek in use 1300 years before Mohammed in a New Testament reference to FEAR of the Jews, of all things), the Woke, the BAME (who know not Wilberforce) the genderfluids, the misandrists, the feminista- shortlista's have destroyed the kind of satirical comedy of TWTWTW, Monty Python, Spitting Image (even Dad's Army, 'Allo,'Allo and Hi-de- hi)." #PoliticallyCorrectPC #IdentityBlackAsianAndMinorityEthnicBAME #IRLHistoricalFigureWilliamWilberforce ? #OtheringHateMisandry #CauseFeminism "feminista-shortlista" ? #TVThatWasTheWeekThatWasTWTWTW ? i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Was_the_Week_That_Was #OrgUKMontyPython #TVDadsArmy #TVAlloAllo #TVHiDeHi
Context: "President Trump's first use of the phrase 'kung flu' -- during a campaign rally in Tulsa last weekend -- drew broad political backlash as a racist slur against Asian Americans.
Within three days, however, it was also something else: a rallying cry for his supporters." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-kung-flu-trump-sparks-backlash-over-racist-language--and-a-rallying-cry-for-supporters/2020/06/24/485d151e-b620-11ea-aca5-ebb63d27e1ff_story.html #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #SlurKungFlu #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSAAction #ToponymAmericaNorthUSOklahomaTulsa #IdentityAmericanAsian
"Donald Trump used racist language to describe the coronavirus pandemic at a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, by terming the virus as the 'kung flu'. ...
Trump has repeatedly tried to term Covid-19 as the 'Chinese virus' or the 'Wuhan virus' which has prompted outrage from many civil liberties groups, who have warned that such language can inspire racism and violence against Asian Americans.
But in Tulsa Trump appeared to go even further in his use of racist language.
'It has more names than any disease in history. I can name kung flu. I can name 19 different versions of names,' he said to cheers from the crowd.
Trump has previously defended his language around linking the virus to China. Speaking at a daily coronavirus task force briefing in March, he said it was 'not racist at all. It comes from China. I want to be accurate.'" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/20/trump-covid-19-kung-flu-racist-language #PhenomnVirusCOVID19 #SlurChinaWuhanVirus #CauseCivilLiberties
Addendum: this justification has multiple problems. It seeks to conflate genuine satire (related to the criticism of imbalances of power) with Trump's ham-fisted racial slur. And then, it attempts to justify the bullying by using #ReasoningFallacyAppealToTradition (as if the process of repeating a slur transforms it into critique). It then uses a #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism to justify #OtheringHateIslamophobiaAntiMuslim through conflating it with #OtheringHateAntisemitism (as if the forms of discrimination are somehow opposed to each other - rather than simply being two different forms - and so, are able to cancel each other out). It then attempts to pass off a generalised attack on various issues, which have received significant profile contemporarily i.e. #_CondemnationGender followed up with a plug for some dated #LiteralClassicBritishTV (whose humour is the product of the time when they were produced).