• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      if we’re lucky, there’s be a paragraph about it between to the paragraph about the trail of tears and the other paragraph about martin luther king jr in american history books.

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        3 months ago

        I highly recommend Lies My Teacher Told Me, American history textbooks are fucking garbage lol

        For example, that the US Army hunted buffalo to near extinction specifically to starve the plains natives, it was a deliberate strategy of using starvation as a weapon. I was taught it was just “”“poaching”“” from settlers and that it was all an accident.

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          3 months ago

          that and A People’s History of the United States informs most of what i know.

          i also marvel from time to time at how the bullshit that i was taught when i was young can still completely overpower the things i learned in my young adulthood; and it somehow got worse once i reached middle age.

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                3 months ago

                Did @eldavi@lemmy.ml report me?

                Either way, it was sarcasm

                the caustic use of words, often in a humorous way, to mock someone or something

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                  I won’t reveal who reports who, but I will say it was someone else.

                  The civility rule is NOT ambiguous:

                  “Rule 5: Keep it civil. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members.”

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                    3 months ago

                    All good but this moderation approach is censoring non-problematic content because some people have poor reading comprehension and/or don’t understand sarcasm.

                    I would expect them to get better instead of content getting diluted.

                    @eldavi@lemmy.ml did confirm that he did not report me, so this is literally some third party injecting themselves into a discussion. Either way, rules can be used by faith actors to stifle speech, that’s how it works on reddit. I would posit context should be counted when issuing removals.

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                  3 months ago

                  i was wondering what you said since i can only see that it was removed.

                  i’ve used milderer sarcasm than you have and my own comments have likewise been removed; i suspect that the fraught relationship that lemmy.world has with the rest of the lemmyverse is fueling overzealous moderation.

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                    3 months ago

                    Yeah I figured you would have picked up on it based on your comments

                    It was something along the lines: “but have you thought about the right of rich Americans to defend themselves, ****Lord”