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I don’t do much with Facebook, but I guess I have it set up to automatically post my Tweets. Yesterday, after I tweeted a graph comparing the UN’s population forecasts for four African and four European countries, somebody asked me if the country that is expected to reach 192 million by the end of century is famously overpopulated Nigeria. I replied that Nigeria didn’t fit on my graph, so I showed instead little-known Niger.
Today, Facebook told me:
In the above graph, I’m comparing Niger to Iran. You can see a steep increase in Iranian population after the mullahs took over in the late 1970s and pushed the pedal to the metal on fertility. But you can then see the Iranian theocrats’ change of heart in the early 1990s when they realized that Iran was overpopulated enough already and so they started encouraging more sustainable family sizes in their country.
In other words, Iran shows that it is possible for prudent leadership to moderate population growth to a responsible level
But you can also see that it will likely take about 60 years from this point of wising up on fertility for Iran’s population to stop growing due to the phenomenon of demographic momentum.
In contrast, once empty Niger in the impoverished southern Sahara is starting to fill up with what bodes to be an enormous number of people, some of whom are headed for Europe already, with virtually nobody trying to pump the brakes. Practically nobody in the West is even asking Niger to show some responsibility.
But don’t discuss UN forecasts of Niger’s population growth on Facebook. That violates community standards.
Facebook may not believe that anybody could possibly be interested in Niger, but, as Trotsky would say, the upcoming 192,000,000 Nigeriens are, like war, interested in you.
Black people are sacred. Or rather, gays and women desire them. So they are above any criticism. In addition, Black women make White women, even the fattest and slaggiest, look “pretty” in comparison. [A tell for hot female insecurity is the number of fat friends around her to make her look prettier by comparison.]
So yeah, Fakebook being both gay and female dominated, of course your tweet was removed. Don’t think logic, rules, or anything other than pure female-gay (same thing) desire/emotion runs the West. Once you understand that, everything makes sense and is utterly predictable.
Predictable in a way that the model of (((JEWS!!!!eleventy!!111))) is not: flood Europe and very nice places like the South of France with Africans and Muslims who push out Jews? Not good for Jews and very predictable but oh so producing lady tingles down there for the women and gays.
Some fool mod probably saw “Niger**” three times and thought you didn’t know how to spell.
• Agatha Christie
• Mark Twain
• Chris Rock
• Joseph Conrad
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Kwame Kilpatrick
• Cassius Clay
• Eugene Genovese
• Richard Pryor
• Eddie Murphy
• Mel Brooks
• Quentin Tarantino
• Langston Hughes
• Flannery O'Connor
• William Faulkner
• Gilbert & Sullivan
• Rudyard Kipling
I weary; I could write all day, but the point is made: Steve is in pretty interesting company, and Facebook has no interest in anyone interesting.Replies: @Moshe
Not only are its citizens the world's least literate, but even those who are can't read about their own country on Facebook.
I've started to toss the word "snigger" around awaiting the inevitable.
There was a scene in Alex Garland’s novel “The Beach” where someone is talking to the main character about Niger and Nigeria. It was all an elaborate prank he was playing, based on what the nationality of people from Niger were called, since Nigerians were the ones from Nigeria.
Well, anyway. I don’t want to get into it, but I imagine what the problem is, is that you can only go around saying the names of these countries for so long before you trigger Facebook’s “community standards” bots.
Niger, please
I bet they thought you were missing a ‘g’
This shouldn’t surprise you.
You’re not allowed t post anything that might imply leaders might be making less than optimal decisions, if such leaders are black.
Obviously, you can criticize anything and everything about white leaders, because freedom.
1/ I suspect that the SJW university grad who deleted your FB post simply has never heard of Niger and thought you had just misspelled another word.
2/ When Khomeini took over, the typical Iranian woman had 7 children. Now it’s a whole lot less. With no real infrastructure for seniors care and with the old ideas for taking care of the parents now gone, I wouldn’t want to be one of those 7 children when they grow old.
But at least Iran has no immigrants so there’s that.
"Iran's birth rate stands at 1.6 children per woman, lawmaker Ali Motahari said, according to IRNA. At that rate, the population of more than 75 million would fall to 31 million by 2094, and 47 percent of Iranians would be above the age of 60, said Mohamad Saleh Jokar, another lawmaker.
U.N. data suggests Iran's median age will increase from 28 in 2013 to 40 by 2030."
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-population-idUSKBN0GB15Z20140811
In fairness, they don't coddle them like West Europeans, but send them off as cannon fodder to Syria. I suppose this is a marginally better approach.Replies: @Frau Katze
Iran has had a change of heart yet again. Iran’s fertility rate has dropped below replacement and the government is concerned. (1.6 actually, within striking distance of Northern Europe interestingly.)
The did not outlaw temporary contraception, but it’s no longer free: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/04/iran-eliminate-family-planning-programs.html
Permanent contraception were outlawed in 2014: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-population-idUSKBN0GB15Z20140811
I read a more touchy feely article at the time and there was concerns that Iran’s basketcase theocracy had finally caught up with it’s young people. Housing is expensive because of lack of building and I guess lack of trust generally in the economy. Couples don’t feel they can really afford children, no matter how many happy posters the state puts up.
Abortion is legal in certain circumstances and that remains unchanged.
I don’t really see how they get people to have more babies anyway if it’s really economic issues holding young people back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say,_Niger
"The muniipality has twelve thousand inhabitants and no modern economy."
“Niger” doesn’t rhyme with anything, does it?
Unless you cheat, as Derb has done.
There once was a fellow named Guy
who chewed qat in the alleys of Ni-
ger, leaving him high
as an elephant’s eye
and sent to the sweet by-and-by.
Who rode on the back of a tiger;
They came back from the ride
With the lady inside,
And a smile on the face of the tiger.
2/ When Khomeini took over, the typical Iranian woman had 7 children. Now it's a whole lot less. With no real infrastructure for seniors care and with the old ideas for taking care of the parents now gone, I wouldn't want to be one of those 7 children when they grow old.
But at least Iran has no immigrants so there's that.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @AM, @Anatoly Karlin, @Romanian
Why would they? They’re already an empire, since Persian times.
That’s possible. Who knows who they’re using to mod Facebook, Twitter, etc? It probably is an Indian firm stocked with people who are using formal British English and really don’t care. Or it’s bot automatically looking for that word.
"I will look into it, and revert back to you as soon as possible. Oh, my. This comment is a Himalayan blunder. Immediately it must be consigned to digital oblivion."
"Asok, you have deleted the comment. Many felicitations on your rapidity."
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/innis.asp
2/ When Khomeini took over, the typical Iranian woman had 7 children. Now it's a whole lot less. With no real infrastructure for seniors care and with the old ideas for taking care of the parents now gone, I wouldn't want to be one of those 7 children when they grow old.
But at least Iran has no immigrants so there's that.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @AM, @Anatoly Karlin, @Romanian
From a Reuters article from 2014:
“Iran’s birth rate stands at 1.6 children per woman, lawmaker Ali Motahari said, according to IRNA. At that rate, the population of more than 75 million would fall to 31 million by 2094, and 47 percent of Iranians would be above the age of 60, said Mohamad Saleh Jokar, another lawmaker.
U.N. data suggests Iran’s median age will increase from 28 in 2013 to 40 by 2030.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-population-idUSKBN0GB15Z20140811
My sister-in-law once told me that one of the most terrifying moments for white kids in her majority-minority grade school was coming to Niger after being asked by the teacher to recite the names of African countries.
But don’t feel bad about the removal — Facebook is just being super-duper extra careful after that Google algorithm kept on identifying blacks as gorillas.
It's a francophone country. the pronunciation is knee-jheer, where the "jh" is that soft, frog version of the letter "J".
There was a lot of Arab (& white soldier-boy french) blood mixed into the population from invasions... the young women are sometimes fairly attractive, more like the ethiopians than like true, pure sub-saharans.Replies: @syonredux
That was my thought as well. I would be surprised if removing the post was related to the content.
Assuming this is the reasoning, other reprehensible persons with no place in Facebook’s community include:
• Agatha Christie
• Mark Twain
• Chris Rock
• Joseph Conrad
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Kwame Kilpatrick
• Cassius Clay
• Eugene Genovese
• Richard Pryor
• Eddie Murphy
• Mel Brooks
• Quentin Tarantino
• Langston Hughes
• Flannery O’Connor
• William Faulkner
• Gilbert & Sullivan
• Rudyard Kipling
I weary; I could write all day, but the point is made: Steve is in pretty interesting company, and Facebook has no interest in anyone interesting.
Isn’t it more efficient to simply write:
“The muniipality has twelve thousand inhabitants and no modern economy.”
But don't feel bad about the removal -- Facebook is just being super-duper extra careful after that Google algorithm kept on identifying blacks as gorillas.Replies: @Karl, @anon, @The True and Original David
12 Bill P. > was coming to Niger after being asked by the teacher to recite the names of African countries.
It’s a francophone country. the pronunciation is knee-jheer, where the “jh” is that soft, frog version of the letter “J”.
There was a lot of Arab (& white soldier-boy french) blood mixed into the population from invasions… the young women are sometimes fairly attractive, more like the ethiopians than like true, pure sub-saharans.
Of course, since I'm a conservative, I'll stick with "Nigh-jer".....And Côte d'Ivoire is Ivory Coast, dammit....Replies: @Flip
It would appear that Facebook is being rather niggardly when it come to using that African country’s official name.
That was DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD says Emperor Zuckerberg
I heard some leftists on the radio go out of their way to talk about how it should be pronounced, before they said anything, and they agreed on “Nijer”. Perhaps that is the French pronunciation.
Niger:
Perhaps it is to be very subtle PC neo-colonialism:
Diori Hamani International Airport:
Well, we wouldn’t want to let our boys and girls in Niger down…
Slavery in Niger:
Is there a slavery/fertility angle?
Must suck for Nigeriens to not be allowed to discuss their own country on facebook.
This young guy I know tells of riding the muni in SF one day after starting a first time job as a bartender. He was on his phone telling his mom about the job and how all the drinks have to be measured out at one ‘jigger’ when a “homeless looking” black guy sitting near by jumps up and punches him in the mouth.
I wonder how fastidious Zuckerberg’s Stasi is at stomping out uses of a sometimes derogatory slur when other times is a familiar colloquialism for one’s homies enthusiastically deployed by brothers of another color.
Poor Niger.
Not only are its citizens the world’s least literate, but even those who are can’t read about their own country on Facebook.
Good one.
2/ When Khomeini took over, the typical Iranian woman had 7 children. Now it's a whole lot less. With no real infrastructure for seniors care and with the old ideas for taking care of the parents now gone, I wouldn't want to be one of those 7 children when they grow old.
But at least Iran has no immigrants so there's that.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @AM, @Anatoly Karlin, @Romanian
Actually Iran has plenty of immigrants, around 2 million from Afghanistan alone.
In fairness, they don’t coddle them like West Europeans, but send them off as cannon fodder to Syria. I suppose this is a marginally better approach.
“Niger, please.”
Anon, my late father and his brothers, all WWII vets, always called blacks jigs. They also referred to jazz dancing as jig a boo dancing. Well, anyhow, maybe Niger should be the N-country.
Unless you cheat, as Derb has done.
There once was a fellow named Guy
who chewed qat in the alleys of Ni-
ger, leaving him high
as an elephant's eye
and sent to the sweet by-and-by.Replies: @anonymous, @Dave Shanken
Think of Niger in comparison to the words Tiger and Tigger
When I was a kid I’m certain that, on the rare occasions it was ever mentioned, Niger was pronounced Nye-jer.
Now it seems to have morphed into Knee-jerr.
The one Nigerien I know told me that it should be pronounced "nee-ZHAIR", as in French.Replies: @anon
Now it seems to have morphed into Knee-jerr.Replies: @Elsewhere
“NYE-jer” is definitely anglicized, so I’m sure everyone pronounces it that way when first seeing it written.
The one Nigerien I know told me that it should be pronounced “nee-ZHAIR”, as in French.
Westerners care a lot more about this shit than Africans themselves.
Several years ago Gazprom formed a joint company with the Nigerian national oil company called… Nigaz.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigaz
Nobody in Russia cared. Nobody in Nigeria cared. The Anglo media had a field day.
“Asok, kindly have a look at this Facebook comment and do the needful.”
“I will look into it, and revert back to you as soon as possible. Oh, my. This comment is a Himalayan blunder. Immediately it must be consigned to digital oblivion.”
“Asok, you have deleted the comment. Many felicitations on your rapidity.”
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/innis.asp
There was a time where I actually believed libertarian arguments like this one:
“Fertility rates are more than twice as high in countries with low levels of economic freedom and the rule of law compared to countries with high levels of those measures.” I.e., one everyone follows the teleological course towards Western modernity, the problem will solve itself.
http://reason.com/archives/2009/06/16/the-invisible-hand-of-populati
Then I found out that there’s an underlying premise there that is completely false. And now I’m scared.
It's a francophone country. the pronunciation is knee-jheer, where the "jh" is that soft, frog version of the letter "J".
There was a lot of Arab (& white soldier-boy french) blood mixed into the population from invasions... the young women are sometimes fairly attractive, more like the ethiopians than like true, pure sub-saharans.Replies: @syonredux
Yeah, but the standard Anglophone pronunciation is “Nigh-jer”….Although it does seem that they are trying to make Anglos say it the French way….
Of course, since I’m a conservative, I’ll stick with “Nigh-jer”…..And Côte d’Ivoire is Ivory Coast, dammit….
Of course, since I'm a conservative, I'll stick with "Nigh-jer".....And Côte d'Ivoire is Ivory Coast, dammit....Replies: @Flip
I still call East Asians “orientals” and my much younger girlfriend gets upset, saying it is like calling black people “colored.” I don’t think so.
Likewise if you use "colored" in South Africa or other places the meaning is completely different. And, bizarrely, a "yellow man" in the U.S. is sometimes not a Far Easterner but a whitish "colored".
A Taiwanese-American friend of mind bridled at being referred to as "oriental". No, he wanted to be referred to as "North Asian". I am only too happy to comply.Replies: @Mr. Anon
• Agatha Christie
• Mark Twain
• Chris Rock
• Joseph Conrad
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Kwame Kilpatrick
• Cassius Clay
• Eugene Genovese
• Richard Pryor
• Eddie Murphy
• Mel Brooks
• Quentin Tarantino
• Langston Hughes
• Flannery O'Connor
• William Faulkner
• Gilbert & Sullivan
• Rudyard Kipling
I weary; I could write all day, but the point is made: Steve is in pretty interesting company, and Facebook has no interest in anyone interesting.Replies: @Moshe
I have no idea what you’re saying.
We wuz neguses!
Maybe what we have here is plain old Special Operations Forces Neo-Colonialism. (SOFNC, you heard it here first), perhaps kind of like Laos in days gone by.
“The Year of the Commando: U.S. Special Operations Forces Deploy to 138 Nations, 70% of the World’s Countries”, Nick Turse, TomDispatch.com, January 5, 2017:
Ah, just go ahead and call it neo-colonial gunboat (or maybe drone) diplomacy.
You might not be interested in Africa, but…
“U.S. Special Operations Numbers Surge in Africa’s Shadow Wars”, Nick Turse, 31-Dec-2016:
Hum:
Okay, got it, maybe. I think that means we own it. At least we will learn more African geography, I suppose.
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I studied Latin in high school and a little bit as an undergraduate. Therefore, I simply can’t get exercised over words like Niger, Nigeria, negro, negress, nigger, nigga, niggaz, etc.
They are all simply derived from the Latin nigrum, meaning “black,” and derivatives of the Latin root appear in most of the Romance languages (noir, negru, negra, nero). Simple as that.
Of course, you’re not supposed to say “black,” either… you’re supposed to say “African-American,” which is imprecise, because we’re not talking about Boers, Berbers, and Egyptians who emigrated to America, are we?
So, back to “nigrum” and such we must go, for the sake of accuracy…
The gist seems to be that anything used prior to the 1960s is offensive, regardless of the etymology. I've noticed leftists starting to use the amusingly absurd "Latinx" as a gender neutral version Latino/Latina. They could just use the older, gender-neutral term "Latin." But that's what my grandpa says, so of course that would never do.
This article about fertility in Niger is pretty dismal:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/mar/15/why-have-four-children-when-you-could-have-seven-contraception-niger?CMP=share_btn_tw
That’s right. I warned you not to notice things.
Make my immigration reform comprehensive, please!
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10103821948456451
Zuckerberg is too busy promoting Chetty across Iowa and Nebraska to worry about posts about the African population boom today.
I wonder if Facebook-Sweden blocks posts by users named “Nygard”? Although the Vikings are so PC/SJW neutered these days, they probably voluntarily self-censor.
People who use the word you’re not allowed to use in this comment section, but that, ironically, Facebook moderators may have assumed Steve was misspelling.
But anyway, I got the point and published a funny page from one of the authors he mentioned and asked him and others to guess, without cheating, which of the authors it was.
It was the beginning of Just So Stories. The most famous one on how the leopard got its spots.
A full page from a world famous author could not get published HERE(!) because it included a verboten word.
So, honestly Steve, your piece here is mocking how terrified facebook is of The Forbidden Word that they even messed up and blocked Ni-j-er.
But you really can't mock them for taking The Word so seriously if even you censor a page of Rudyard Kipling's children's stories.
It’s a bit confusing because when Brits and other Commonwealth peoples refer to the Orient they’re often talking about the Near East.
Likewise if you use “colored” in South Africa or other places the meaning is completely different. And, bizarrely, a “yellow man” in the U.S. is sometimes not a Far Easterner but a whitish “colored”.
Flip:
A Taiwanese-American friend of mind bridled at being referred to as “oriental”. No, he wanted to be referred to as “North Asian”. I am only too happy to comply.
In part, I expect, because no one permits me to type a word deemed to have magical, evil powers, like unto the the power of certain words in fantastical literature:
I’d prefer everyone behaved as an adult capable of discussing words – even vulgar words or insults – as a disinterested and mature person when ocassioned to do so, but such are modern mores that we may not, and thus communication is made difficult – as is, of course, the intent of those who would enforce such irrational taboos.
But don't feel bad about the removal -- Facebook is just being super-duper extra careful after that Google algorithm kept on identifying blacks as gorillas.Replies: @Karl, @anon, @The True and Original David
I used to always find it a little weird how many black British kids used to be named “Nigel”. That always seemed like they were just asking for trouble to me.
Unless you cheat, as Derb has done.
There once was a fellow named Guy
who chewed qat in the alleys of Ni-
ger, leaving him high
as an elephant's eye
and sent to the sweet by-and-by.Replies: @anonymous, @Dave Shanken
There was a young lady from Niger,
Who rode on the back of a tiger;
They came back from the ride
With the lady inside,
And a smile on the face of the tiger.
The one Nigerien I know told me that it should be pronounced "nee-ZHAIR", as in French.Replies: @anon
I don’t know. I learned it as “Nee-zhair” when I was in grade school, in a really small, non-diverse town in the midwest. So it’s been around for awhile.
For the normal "nitch" of Anglophones, it's "NY-jer".
How does Mr Innes pronounce his name?
Has anyone else taken a look at the U.N.’s migration projections? They seem awfully low to me.
Here’s how they calculate their migration projections:
There are things not mentioned in polite company.
Indeed. Say Niger enough and, well, the jig is up.
Er, uh, I mean………..
Anyway, apparently even just writing the name of a country – Niger – on Facebook is enough to spook them.
Uh,ahem, what I meant was……………..
Someone should tell Facebook that if the N-word is misspelled, then the poster was probably black.
Well, I guess this poem is unacceptable now:
There was a young lady of Niger
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger;
They returned from the ride
With the lady inside,
And the smile on the face of the tiger.
William Cosmo Monkhouse
Here's how they calculate their migration projections:Replies: @Autochthon
Oh, my sides; my sides!
I work with a guy my age (more or less forty) whose parents arrived as refugees from Nicaragua before he was born. For that matter, have these people ever been to Miami or Lewiston to talk to all the Cubans and Somalis constantly headed home after ten-year stints in the Thanoccident?
I’m going to have to disagree with Joan Rivers or Alf or whoever the Hell is occupying the center square there at the United Nations. Do these people just hire high school drop-outs to be statisticians and demographers?! They strike me as the type who, if operating an automobile or aeroplane with visible flames streaming up from the engine, would insist everything were functioning normally because the temperature indicated by the instruments indicated no problems – they are bizarrely incapable of questioning their models and data against obvious and irrefutable empirical realities, because their models and instruments are, of course, inherently flawless….
“Nee-zhair” is popular with a certain “neesh” of the population.
For the normal “nitch” of Anglophones, it’s “NY-jer”.
How does Mr Innes pronounce his name?
Mandarin has the word “Na Ge” which is guaranteed to cause a fight if used in the wrong place.
Yes and since it means “that one” they use that phrase a lot.
It’s probably Nygård if they’re Swedish though. Or Nygaard for Danes or Norwegians, possibly. Wassup my Nygaards?
For American readers with a fondness for the letter “å”, I can also inform you that Hårvård means Hair Care. I’m saving that for some special occasion.
What’s actually quite interesting is that a second after posting my first comment I posted a 2nd noting that I understood what he meant (even if it was phrased oddly, after all they had not written about Ni-j-er). Also they are dead and are therefore persona-non-nothing visa vis facebook.
But anyway, I got the point and published a funny page from one of the authors he mentioned and asked him and others to guess, without cheating, which of the authors it was.
It was the beginning of Just So Stories. The most famous one on how the leopard got its spots.
A full page from a world famous author could not get published HERE(!) because it included a verboten word.
So, honestly Steve, your piece here is mocking how terrified facebook is of The Forbidden Word that they even messed up and blocked Ni-j-er.
But you really can’t mock them for taking The Word so seriously if even you censor a page of Rudyard Kipling’s children’s stories.
2/ When Khomeini took over, the typical Iranian woman had 7 children. Now it's a whole lot less. With no real infrastructure for seniors care and with the old ideas for taking care of the parents now gone, I wouldn't want to be one of those 7 children when they grow old.
But at least Iran has no immigrants so there's that.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @AM, @Anatoly Karlin, @Romanian
They are already hyper-diverse, to their detriment, though good politics calls for putting a happy face on the pressure cooker. I’ve met Persian Iranians, Tajiks from Afghanistan (who are Farsi speakers), Kurdish Iranians, Azeri Iranians, Balochi Iranian. The diversity is baked into the cake, and the Persians have a pretty slim majority. One good whack from history and the place might splinter apart.
Is that you, Ray Lopez from Marginal Revolution? :))
Several years ago Gazprom formed a joint company with the Nigerian national oil company called... Nigaz.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigaz
Nobody in Russia cared. Nobody in Nigeria cared. The Anglo media had a field day.Replies: @Hibernian, @Hippopotamusdrome
The rap music energy company.
A Taiwanese-American friend of mind bridled at being referred to as "oriental". No, he wanted to be referred to as "North Asian". I am only too happy to comply.Replies: @Mr. Anon
Funny chaps, these inscruitable yellow devils!
I think the Trotsky quote is wrong. Wikipedia says he actually said “the Dialectic is interested in you”. I wish I were enthusiastic about understanding what that means but since communism is over, I’ll skip it for now.
But don't feel bad about the removal -- Facebook is just being super-duper extra careful after that Google algorithm kept on identifying blacks as gorillas.Replies: @Karl, @anon, @The True and Original David
I had the same experience, in 4th grade.
I was the kid the teacher picked to recite the word “Niger” as she stood beside the hanging map of Africa with a pointer in her hand.
Because I wouldn’t answer, she told my parents it was a scandal that I was in the “gifted” program because I was clearly retarded.
Homeschool your children.
New Boston Post has been doing some stories on accounts suspended by Facebook.
At least in the instances it’s looked at, it hasn’t been an automated algorithm, but the result of user complaints. Even a single user complaint can prompt a suspension.
See link below for a story on a website called Turtleboy:
http://newbostonpost.com/2017/06/19/the-trials-of-turtleboy-is-facebook-a-bloggers-best-asset-or-worst-enemy/
In this case, it looks like there was an organized ring of users making spurious abuse claims to keep Turtleboy’s Facebook account suspended.
Several years ago Gazprom formed a joint company with the Nigerian national oil company called... Nigaz.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigaz
Nobody in Russia cared. Nobody in Nigeria cared. The Anglo media had a field day.Replies: @Hibernian, @Hippopotamusdrome
I am dissapointed. They should have used 2 g’s. It was a wasted opportunity.
That is a western idea
In fairness, they don't coddle them like West Europeans, but send them off as cannon fodder to Syria. I suppose this is a marginally better approach.Replies: @Frau Katze
Back in Saddam’s glory days he would round up people he didn’t like and accuse them of being Iranians (likely they were just Shiites).
He would truck them to the border with Iran and dump them. Iran let them in.
Last I read, the Afghans were doing jobs Iranians wouldn’t do, and for less money. An old, old story.
Right. Objectively, you’d think slurs like “darkie” or ” jungle bunny” would be more offensive. Yet somehow “the N word,” which simply means black, became the most offensive word in American English. Similarly, I’ve never understood why “oriental,” which just means eastern, is considered offensive.
The gist seems to be that anything used prior to the 1960s is offensive, regardless of the etymology. I’ve noticed leftists starting to use the amusingly absurd “Latinx” as a gender neutral version Latino/Latina. They could just use the older, gender-neutral term “Latin.” But that’s what my grandpa says, so of course that would never do.
It’s not dissimilar to the flood of outrage a while ago when someone publicly used the word “niggardly”.
I’ve started to toss the word “snigger” around awaiting the inevitable.