TheSultanAkbar
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@TheTaZe  
Guess what? I have Turkic ancestry. The Ottomans raped, looted, pilaged and enslaved the Balkans, North Africa, Eastern Europe, all that s**t. Where’s their sufferage month?
TheDrizzle404
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@TheTaZe  
And so did black people who partook in the slave trade, because they weren’t black, they were slaves. But this is about censorship.
White-eyed vireo
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These are good points, and I am terrified that these rules will set a precedent for more that will only get worse as time moves on. We, as a community, should not be be willing to be bullied into favoring one one soapbox over another.
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@EaTCarbS  
No shit it was economically advantageous. Slavery literally existed to exploit other human beings. Slaver owners literally saw black people as lower forms of human beings.
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@TheTaZe  
Many Irish were indentured servants and were treated as badly or even worse than slaves. Many Africans in America owned slaves. Sure, many slave owners were racist, but the reason it got started was although Europeans were protected from slavery (except in the case of Moorish raiders) African tribes would sell slaves they captured in wars and they didn’t care who they were selling their fellow Africans to. Immoral traders, primarily from Holland, took advantage of the situation and were certainly responsible to a great extent, but slavery did not exist because Europeans were “racist.” It was through the effort of Europeans that slavery became banned worldwide, so we’re not all bad.
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@wootmasterflex  
Nice strawman.
EaTCarbS
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@TheSultanAkbar
I have no idea how you can be so ignorant. It’s kind of stunning honestly. But yes, slavery is inherently racist. Why do you think slavery existed in America?
 
Because it was economically advantageous to those who practiced it… and to every other group that has and still does engage.
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@TheSultanAkbar  
I have no idea how you can be so ignorant. It’s kind of stunning honestly. But yes, slavery is inherently racist. Why do you think slavery existed in America?
TheSultanAkbar
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@wootmasterflex  
And your point is…?
 
What’s with the suffer-contest? Are we just gonna argue about who’s ancestors suffered more throughout history? What does it matter, they’re dead and slavery is abolished in the 1st world. I think you’re more into feel thinking.
Boxless

stop using Derpi lmao
@wootmasterflex  
yeah imma go with the BP on that one, it’s a pretty big yikes.
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@wootmasterflex  
This will be my only response to you if you keep trying to avoid the topic at hand, but I’ll go ahead and answer your off-topic insult this one time.
 
Even with the explanation entirely spelled out you didn’t understand my posts. Since you ignored it entirely, let me spell it out bluntly: Blacks were not the only slaves in history. Whites have also been slaves. In fact you’d probably find every country on Earth and/or their ancestors has some history of slavery at some point in time. Some even still goes on today in other countries. When a black slave owner whips his black slave, that’s racism in your eyes. That black man hates black people. That black man doesn’t think of that black slave as his property, instead he’s doing it just because he hates black people. How does that make sense to you?
 
Your phone is an example of a communication platform. Do you expect your cell company to randomly cut off your phone calls because you said something they didn’t like? Twitter is an example of a publisher pretending to be a platform. There’s a reason they’ve been dragged into Congress to discuss censorship issues multiple times. A platform doesn’t curate content by definition of both the word platform and the law protecting platforms from legal repercussions under US law.
 
Care to discuss the ramifications of censorship now?
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@wootmasterflex  
I can’t believe you’re apologizing for the slavery of millions of Africans. “They’re treated well” has been an excuse of slavery apologists for centuries, and that gets a yikes from me.
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@TheSultanAkbar
 
Downplaying the racial connections of slavery in America showcases a massive lack of knowledge on the subject. Either that or they’re so bigoted and purposefully lying about it. As a matter of fact slaves in non European colonies were treated better than their American counterparts. Several facets of the American slave trade were UNIQUELY race-based, such as inherited slavery. Nothing about what he said is rational and as a matter of fact it explicitly defies rational, fact-based thinking.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade#Slavery_in_Africa_and_the_New_World_contrasted
 
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@wootmasterflex
 
Are you trying to prove yourself wrong? The first comment is obviously tongue-in-cheek, and the second one isn’t incorrect in any way.
Boxless

stop using Derpi lmao
Besides the whole response part that will likely get this nuked from orbit, the art’s alright. Don’t particularly like the lack of detail on the talons but eh, i’ll live, it was in 7 hours.
 
@wootmasterflex  
Woot, do you need glasses? Honest question dude, you seem to be misreading a lot of REDACTED nowadays.
TheSultanAkbar
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@wootmasterflex  
Um… you do know that what he wrote in the second comment is quite reasonably rational and not racist in any way?
 
Of course, you have to know how to read.
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@wootmasterflex
Like clockwork. Everyone who disagrees with you must be a racist. No critical thinking required.
 
You know your comment history is public right?
 
Its no surprise someone so eager to paint the Antebellum Slave Trade as “not-racist” also holds similarly uninformed and ignorant views on what constitutes censorship and the differences between a platform and a publisher. Your complete lack of knowledge of the racism inherent to American slavery bleeds into this hilarious response to the Derpibooru mods saying “racism bad”. You quite clearly have no idea what you’re talking about and just want to be able to use ponies as a vehicle for your bigotry
 
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You’re not a griffon, you’re goddamned cuckoo lol
TheSultanAkbar
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@TheDrizzle404  
That, right there, we can agree on!
 
Shame that VS is such big fat business, but,… humans and society, am I right?
 
Actually, it’s not even funny and it’s kinda depressing what a delusional s**thole of a world we live in.
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@TheSultanAkbar  
Its a marketing move, nothing more. “Tell them we care so they will consume our product.”
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@TheSultanAkbar  
I’d leave it up to individuals to decide. Usually it’s fairly obvious, as it’s subverting something that most people would agree with. That’s where the joke comes from. A lot of downvotes, like the ones screenshotted, are because no one really cares for virtue signalling anymore. Or shoving politics down people’s throat for that matter. No one is going to clap and call you brave for stating murder is wrong. However, people might laugh if you glorify murder in a humorous way.
TheSultanAkbar
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@EaTCarbS  
To be fair, come on, it’s harmless. It happens all the time. People do it too.
 
(Is this your first comment in two years?)
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Based.
 
Looks like the Derpi mods are the next in a long list of [Brands] to pretend to do anything/care for internet brownie points.
TheSultanAkbar
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My Little Pony - 1992 Edition

@TheDrizzle404  
Parody’s a whole topic of itself. What is it and how obvious does it need to be? Isn’t there like a Poe’s law or something? Where parody gets misconscrewed for a genuine expression?
 
And about the comunity, it never is united, is it? We’re just some really loud minority. No way you can make decisions that would benefit all thousands of people.
 
This would be easier if we just wouldn’t get into deleting regular images but… forget about it.
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@NotAPseudonym  
It does when they’re deciding where the line is. The action of removing one topic for being too offensive insinuates the remaining topics aren’t offensive enough to warrant action, and it goes without saying it would be interpreted as meaning they don’t care as much about other groups that are offended.
 
Their claim is anti-BLM posts in specific are bad enough to warrant removal. Why not anti-Jewish posts, and images glorifying nazis? Why not anti-cop posts that glorify violence against officers? Why not anything that’s anti-LGBT? The list goes on and on, and I have zero doubt in my mind those topics are already being brought up by the perpetually offended because it’s the only logical outcome. Their reasoning will be sound: You must support those groups if you’re platforming them, which they are indeed taking an active role in supporting now rather than a passive one by taking that first step.
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@TheSultanAkbar  
Their claim was it was the community’s decision though. Right in their statement they claimed to listen to all of us and they hear us, which was an obvious lie to cover up a poor and unpopular lateral move. You call the removed images “obviously” provocative and assign malicious intent, but why should you get to decide that for everyone? Humor is often a parody of real life, and that parody is also often exaggerated for effect. People take what they want from art.