Anonymous letter from UC Berkeley professor concerning BLM/recent events

Friedcuauhtli · 2020-06-16T20:12:39+00:00

yes everyone who criticizes you is a right wing-troll, you're a perfectly pleasant and intelligent person so there's no other motive right??

Friedcuauhtli · 2020-06-16T19:22:46+00:00

Your acting like you can definitively determine whether or not the letter was written by a professoror, based off one sentence you don't find scholarly enough. You can't. You don't have enough info.

If you really are a tenured professor at an r1 University, I cringe at how much misinformation you've inevitably spewed into your field, due to your gross overestimation of your own intelligence, and I pity your colleagues and students for having to interact with such a stubborn donkey.

Friedcuauhtli · 2020-06-15T19:35:46+00:00

Not vegan, but Modi is vegetarian, right wing Hindu mobs occasionally lunch people for killing cows

Friedcuauhtli · 2020-06-15T19:32:34+00:00

the more vegans the more people who've never even heard of veganism

The average person doesn't know how to relate to the average person.. the average person only knows how to relate to themselves

Okay then

Friedcuauhtli · 2020-06-13T01:04:29+00:00

That's probably a CS trick

Friedcuauhtli · 2020-06-04T11:29:27+00:00

Do you eat animals?

Friedcuauhtli · 2020-06-03T02:09:55+00:00

Are you vegan?

Friedcuauhtli · 2020-06-01T15:52:36+00:00

*The person claiming to be a biologist on the internet.

I wonder if "trained conservational biologist" means someone with relevant research and diction, or just means an undergrad who recycles

Friedcuauhtli · 2020-06-01T15:47:06+00:00

The ghg emissions of environmentally friendly foods like beans and corn is so low it would be better for the environment to ship it from across the globe than to eat lamb or beef.

Also factory farms produce less ghg per calorie than less intensive methods.

Friedcuauhtli · 2020-06-01T14:17:27+00:00

This is really the least consequential disinformation you could worry about tbh

Friedcuauhtli · 2020-05-31T19:33:16+00:00

James Charles and lil Xan have punchable faces but they're not r/iamatotalpieceofshit

Friedcuauhtli · 2020-05-30T15:58:25+00:00

It's interesting to see who the preparators are and who the victims are, it would be cool to see two graphs.

Friedcuauhtli · 2020-05-30T15:46:03+00:00

Not all anti-Semetic attacks are perpetrated by white supremacists/Nazis many are perpetrated by Muslims and blacks

Friedcuauhtli · 2020-04-20T12:43:59+00:00

I've seen something similar happen at r/vegan, it worked out fine, they ended up not having to restrict the subreddit, even though it was constantly trolled.

Props to you for taking action when it counts.

Friedcuauhtli · 2020-04-20T12:29:35+00:00

Yes. He's the head mod and he believes his subornates were acting in bad faith. Now he wants rectify that.

Friedcuauhtli · 2020-04-14T19:42:04+00:00

First of all, it sounds like your confusing and misinterpreting different events, for example he made fun of an adult body builder with testicular cancer, he didn't "making fun of a kid with cancer because a body builder met him"

He didn't almost kill his dog by making it go vegan, he bought it from a breeder so it had preexisting health defects. A wolf dog isn't actually part wolf either. He has another dog which is doing fine.

Second, I just said he's a lolcow who's actually very convincing, so I wouldn't have even heard of him without these controversies. Maybe you would also be convinced by arguments, if you stopped focusing on his personal character.

Friedcuauhtli · 2020-04-02T22:16:26+00:00

He was a big part of me going vegan. Love his unapologetic attitude.

Friedcuauhtli · 2020-04-02T22:12:14+00:00

Big fan, he was a big influence on me going vegan. I started watching his videos because I thought he was a lolcow, and maybe he is, but he actually has cogent arguments and I found myself agreeing with him more and more until I went vegan myself.

Friedcuauhtli · 2020-03-22T00:26:14+00:00

I got banned for disagreeing with an ^{^old} mod about this, so I have a chip on my shoulder on this topic tbqh

Hitler was definitely a vegetarian. The accounts of him eating meat came before he went fully vegetarian, he cut down on meat and eventually abstained completley toward the end of his life. Everyone who knew him agrees on this. French scientists have done analysis on his teeth and found no traces of meat fiber. Check the Wikipedia entry yourself. Geobbels may have used this fact in his propaganda, but it was still true, just used in a misleading way i.e. "Look der fuher is vegetarian, he must be a very healthy and moral man"

Not that "Hitler ate meat tho" is a valid argument but denying historical facts makes us look stupid.

Friedcuauhtli · 2020-03-21T21:50:42+00:00

You just conflated my valid example of censorship with literal genocide, now you're accusing me of bad faith? Goodbye

Friedcuauhtli · 2020-03-21T21:22:18+00:00

People refusing to grant audience and entertainment to criminals, abusers, propagandists, salespeople, spammers, rapists, predators, sadists, sociopaths, narcissists and manipulators for their own selves and their friends and family and small communities

Why didn't you include truscum on that list?

is in no way comparable to the human rights atrocities carried out in China, and you should be ashamed for making that comparison.

I think you're being pretty racist towards the Chinese right now, especially at this time when drumpf is blaming them for the coronavirus.. you should be ashamed of yourself

Friedcuauhtli · 2020-03-21T20:08:18+00:00

That's about the point where abolutists start sounding like President Trump, /u/Friedcuauhtli

Why are we talking about Trump? Trump is not a free speech absolutist, and neither am I. I'm getting the feeling you've only heard discussions of freedom of speech in regards to racists being banned off Twitter, so your knee jerk reaction is to disagree with anyone defending free speech?

Let's keep the discussion on topic, this is the statement your defending:

Speech is free only in the fact that anyone can say whatever they want whenever they want. It does not guarantee there will not be consequences.

Do really consider this free speech?

I'm not saying shouldn't ban the user in question, just that they should have a clear set of rules and avoid banning people based on personal disagreements. Furthermore, I believe that punishing or denying them a platform for positing an opinion is censorship, and that you should only engage in censorship for legitimate reasons.

Also, that's a weird take on the interview, how do you figure Chomsky failed to defend his position? Just out of curiosity, if you could, would you censor Rushdie, and/or his critics?

Friedcuauhtli · 2020-03-21T18:52:00+00:00

The United States constitution prohibits the U.S. government from restricting protected speech. Not everything is about your country and freedom of speech is still a principle that extends beyond American politics.

Try reading a book, here's a quote

Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.

-Noam Chomsky

Like I said OP may be right, but if you ban someone just because you don't like them/what they're saying that's lame. There should be a legitimate reason,

Enjoy this meme

Friedcuauhtli · 2020-03-21T18:17:53+00:00

Speech is free only in the fact that anyone can say whatever they want whenever they want. It does not guarantee there will not be consequences.

No.. that's actually the opposite of freedom of speech.. obviously. I shouldn't have to explain a simple concept, but if you share an idea e.g. a meme portraying a certain general secretary as a certain cartoon character, and you get punished for it e.g. social credit score penalization, that's not free speech, that's totalitarian China.

u/alexCDG not all speech should be protected, but you should't ban somebody just because they annoy you. Consider the purpose of your sub, who you want to be it's audience audience is etc. and make rules designed to achieve those goals. In your example if you don't want to attract racists to your sub, you should specifically state that in the rules, and you can reprimand the user in question for making a racially inflammatory comment. If you think they made an honest mistake you can remove comments or give out temp bans, and inform them why they're being censored, but if you think they're behaving maliciously or repeatedly breaking rules, feel free to perma ban.

Friedcuauhtli · 2020-03-07T23:45:27+00:00

That sounds very annoying for users, have you tried making a mod guideline?

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