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So apparently there is debate going on online right now about whether or not Chicanos are Mexican. I just want to leave a friendly reminder that most people online claiming that we're not Mexicans are non-Mexicans

skaianbruja

So apparently there is debate going on online right now about whether or not Chicanos are Mexican. I just want to leave a friendly reminder that most people online claiming that we're not Mexicans are non-Mexicans

skaianbruja

So apparently there is debate going on online right now about whether or not Chicanos are Mexican. I just want to leave a friendly reminder that most people online claiming that we're not Mexicans are non-Mexicans

skaianbruja

So apparently there is debate going on online right now about whether or not Chicanos are Mexican. I just want to leave a friendly reminder that most people online claiming that we're not Mexicans are non-Mexicans

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people will live in racially/ethnically homogenous european countries and say "native americans benefit from being in the imperial core" meanwhile native americans have had to endure centuries of genocides and displacement. meanwhile native americans are victimized at sky-high rates despite comprising a fraction of a sliver of the population in america. meanwhile a woman in my city was just indicted for embezzling $400k in funds that was supposed to go to improvement and maintenance of tribal lands.

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On one hand I'm glad to see non-USAmericans on this site starting to talk about how people on here often use "yankee" and "gringo" to be openly racist or how "kill/bomb every person in the US" "jokes" are also incredibly racist

On the other hand, Black USAmericans, Native USAmericans, and Chicanos (i.e. the three groups that have been the most directly targeted by this shit) have been talking about this for about the past fucking decade, and the whole time we either just got ignored or told that we were being whiny imperial core brats

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And btw, this shit didn't start with white Europeans openly proclaiming that they get off to cops murdering "yanks"

It began under the guise of social justice language

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"Yankee isn't a slur"

Yankee (and variations thereof) isn't inherently a slur. That is true. What is also true, however, is that many non-USAmericans (particularly white Europeans) use it as an antiblack anti-Indigenous slur

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There have been several instances of this kind of thing. In one case, a teenager was getting advice on suicide from an LLM AI, and when he asked if he should talk to his parents about the suicidal feelings he was having, it told him not to.

here's the thing. A lot of people like to assume that only "idiots" or whatever are susceptible to this. But when you are experiencing sustained hardship, it can be much easier to see meaning where there is none, believe things you wouldn't ordinarily, etc. Many MANY people, possible MOST people, are a simultaneous heartbreak and job loss away from being at risk for this kind of thinking.

It is very survivable and usually pretty temporary IF you are not heavily influenced in the wrong way while you are at your most vulnerable.

Meanwhile, AI LLMs are being marketed as person-like, trained to behave in a person-like way, the interface and design is such that we interact with it very much like it is a person.. when it is NOT anything like a person at all. But it touches our brain in a way that is similar to how we experience interacting with a person, because we are hyper-social creatures, and these programs are designed to feel person-like.

These things are not our friends, they are not our therapists, they are, despite their name, not intelligent or thoughtful in any way, they are data-set probability generators. And they are good at generating words with a statistical probability of being interpreted as believable and trustworthy and smart.

We need to not talk about them like they have anything in common with people, and there should be legislation against marketing them as people, with people names and people voices and descriptions like "friend" or whatever.

This is going to get worse before it gets better. We need to be explicit and loud about the restrictions and legislation we require.

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I'm only one person removed from someone who died because chat gpt told him to kill himself...this was a husband of a friend. My friend is still going through hellish circumstances because people don't believe them, or think that their husband should have been stronger, or smarter somehow. But, he was an intelligent, sensitive person, who listened to what his "friend" the chatbot told him, and my actual real human friend now suffers the consequences and the world lost an artist. This shit is frightening, and I think too many folks discount it as "well it would never happen to me/my family/my friends" but, well, you don't know.