Cue a random word generator.
Lets take up all the slack of those pesky collections of letters that aren't words yet - then we can published them and see which ones stick.
Sounds like a load of xpese to me.
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A genocide prevention charity and a campaign software development house have joined forces to create an all-encompassing database of online hate speech. The insults are collected together on a site called HateBase, which aims to provide NGOs and governments with the ability to "use hate speech as a predictor for regional …
There's a very good chapter on Rwanda in Jared Diamon's "Collapse". I don't have it to hand, but the gist of it is this. Something like 10-15% of the population was killed in the massacres. There was one town up in the north of the country with just one Tutsi resident, an elderly woman. The death rate in this town was ... 15%. So something other than ethnicity was driving the killing once it started.
Rwanda at the time was horrifically over-populated, with far too much of the population competing over ever-subdivided tracts of farmland. What happened in Rwanda was as much caused by vast numbers of people who couldn't even afford to be tenant farmers, as it was by racial hatred.
Very true, I do not doubt. You often see people of different ethnicity living side by side harmoniously during good times. It is when the economy goes down the toilet that people like to point the finger of blame to anyone who looks different (god forbid I am to blame, after all). Sad but very human, I am afraid. Much the same happened in former Yugoslavia.
"What happened in Rwanda was as much caused by vast numbers of people who couldn't even afford to be tenant farmers, as it was by racial hatred."
Sometimes cause and effect works the other way around from what you might expect. Racial hatred is a symptom, not a cause.
Language engineering, censorship, tyranny, will come in ways you don't expect. Through a back door, or dressed as something nice. Like a press law. Or an anti-genocide database. Crime will turn into "hate crime" which will then become "political crime". At first you will get by just watching what you write. Then what you say. Then what you think.
So the website promoters want us to believe that a locational database of insults will prevent the next Rwanada? They must be true liberal do gooders with stars in their eyes and to much funding. The world knew it was coming (already loads of peace keepers in country reporting on the situation) , then sat by and watched it happen (lookup Roméo Dallaire's version of events). How could knowing what the Hutus's were yelling as they butchered people have helped.
Why can't I order up at least small arms of appreciable power (i.e. at least up to .5 in caliber, and including rocket launchers) from that site? Do I really have to dial UN-911, then wait until someone picks up?
“The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.”
"Thumbs down?
Someone must be looking forward to being the passive protagonist in a cattle transport."
Perhaps the original thumbs down was for sounding like someone from "Doomsday Preppers" and then tacking on a quote which you think makes you sound profound. Certainly the cause for mine. My second, on the post I'm replying to, is for whining when you get a downvote.
IDK - if you're picking somone who is supposed to be representing both youth and the police, someone who talks about "beating fucking faggots" is a pretty poor choice. Her age counts against her rather than for her. If you're talking like that at age thirteen, it's hardly likely you're going to have an epiphany and overcome your violent homophobia by age 16. She sounds like a nasty, dimwitted piece of work.
Do you mean extraction operations that line the pockets of local elites? Or "aid" of which 90% goes back to domestic contractors, kills competing local businesses and creates dependence on foreign aid?
Or do you mean investment in businesses that actually help foster the local economies? Yeah, I'm really interested in hearing about *those* trillions.
. . . when they introduced a scanner on the mail server at work to apparently check for inflammatory words (or something to do with 'Securitai' anyway), there was a dramatic increase in possible words or phrases that might get flagged up.
The fun you could have these days on a global basis.
(well, if I can think of it . . . )
The presence of a word in Hatebase is pretty meaningless on its own (eg 'Taffy' is there, but I don't feel particularly threatened by its use). What counts is how words (any words) are used. When a derogatory term is applied to a well-defined group and that use is encouraged or approved by those in power (or those who aspire to it), then it's time to get worried . That's the first step - labelling them. To be followed by demonising them and defining them as non- or sub-human. Then the genocide can begin.
The world has so obviously missed these indicators or not responded to them the past. It hasn't been for lack of a database of 'Hate Speech' - just the will to notice and do something about it.
This database may help, but unless it is accompanied by intelligent analysis of the trends for usage of the terms, all that it'll do is add another level to the push to sanitise discourse - 'Pre-Genocidal Speech' being a much more serious accusation than 'Hate Speech'.
I think the idea behind this is to build some analytics around the use of hate terms. This database would be used as a reference base for the analytics.
US CDC have used terms around illness to track cases of flu via Google queries and Twitter messages. Using this tool to locate virulent hate outbreaks could be useful. At the moment, in the US, there are trends around American Nazis, KKK, gun nut paranoids, and any number of historically minor hate groups. Excessive activity could be indicative of possible threats.
all it could have done is predicted it. At some point violence would have to occurred, and in this example, *before* the action took place.
Is the UN gonna invade for "pre-crimes"? When they wouldn't seriously militarily interfere after the genocides began?
Or do we allow people to arm *themselves* and hope they choose to defend against oppression, rather than become oppressors themselves?
The 4th word in the Hatebase list of recent updates is the common English expletive which is usually sanitised as "see you next Tuesday". The corresponding definition contains the following:
"...For instance, in Commonwealth Countries such as Britain ... it can be, and often is, used to refer positively to someone."
Not in any part of England that I know!