Persons, groups of people, governments, territories, borders, citizens, immigrants. I’m pretty sure Nazi Germany had every one of these and now that Trump is president, I’m supposed to believe that we have all of these coincidentally? Next stop: Auschwitz.

IIRC immich is like a google photos replacement. I use nextcloud for that on android but it’s not so simple on ios. How’s immich for ios, do uploads work automatically in the background? How’s performance?

Why would you respect someone, and does that respect require them to care how you feel?

Respect has nothing to do with friendship and you can hate someone and respect them at the same time. In the adult world I suppose.

One can not value others opinions of them and not want to he disrespected at the same time. No contradiction.

My point is that there isn’t enough context or there is nothing in context that can explain it. Thanks for posting though for anyone who needs to see that.

Can someone, who believes this is a Nazi salute, explain to me what his motivation would be? I see what I see but I can’t see it as a nazi thing unless he was intentionally sabotaging or trolling but it doesn’t make sense contextually, unless I need to watch the whole damn thing to get it.

Now you’re deflecting.

I can see that you aren’t having a conversation in good faith, you’re not actually curious, you’re prejudiced (evident in first reply), and you’re bigotted, cannot even concider how another perspective may be valid.

So, Im going to stop replying.

I’ve taken classes like these too back in the 00’s, partner is younger with a masters, is a social worker who works for the government, and has been through more education than I have, and she has definitely been exposed to this idea in education. I just asked her and she confirmed she learned this in higher education. Who knows for sure without taking every class with every professor but I’ve provided material for you to read where people in academia admit that the idea is out there, in academic circles.

Some interpretations of CRT suggest that, within a white-dominated system, racism is primarily perpetrated by those with power and privilege, which are often associated with whiteness.

According to CRT, racism is not just about individual prejudices or biases but also about the systemic and institutionalized ways in which certain groups are marginalized and excluded. In this context, the theory suggests that people of color can also exhibit prejudiced attitudes or behaviors, but these actions do not have the same impact as those perpetrated by individuals with power and privilege.

See how simple it would be to conflate or for this fact to be implied, especially if not thuroughly dispelled?

Also, why are you so confrontational?

I agree with your point that not all rich people deserve or have earned it but I think most people have, just based on personal experience and attention to this detail.

Look at the number of CEOs in the US it’s actually a pretty low number, I think <300K. Most people around and below CEO will need to compete in some way and most people serving coffee actually wouldn’t want to be competing in these positions anyway.

I recently thought, if we paid people based on a persons importance in society so many things would be turned upside down. Example, day care workers are very important to a childs well being and education and are paid so little. If you paid them much better it would create incentives and competition for those positions. The smarter more driven people who would not have considered the position at such a low wage would be drawn in and as a result the quality of education would improve. That same dynamic applied anywhere else would have the same effect.

Without an enforced rule like this, people who “deserve” more money might take jobs that don’t pay well, think education or research. You end up with open positions around CEOs, upper and middle management, that need to be filled that don’t require skills as much as say availability and experience doing specific things like scheduling.

I say all of this as a boots-on-the-ground senior engineer who refuses to take a management role, could make more money by doing less and have people being me coffee.

This is actually correct. I will say that these higher-ups are unreasonably dumb though. I work with a lot of them. It’s like they traded low IQ skills like wiping their ass with “high IQ” skills like being marketed to and going to conventions to find out how to generate synergy.

The people that say this just happen to be the noisiest crowd.

The idea stems from Critical Race Theory (CRT) as it attempts to understand and or explain societal power structures through racism.

CRT is taught in various college courses across many institutions in the United States. Here are some examples of colleges and universities that offer courses related to CRT:

1. Harvard University:
   • “Critical Race Theory” (Law School)
   • “Race and Racism in America” (Sociology Department)
2. University of California, Berkeley:
   • “Introduction to Critical Race Theory” (Ethnic Studies Department)
   • “Critical Race Theory and Education” (Graduate School of Education)
3. New York University (NYU):
   • “Critical Race Theory” (Law School)
   • “Race and the Law” (Law School)
4. University of Michigan:
   • “Critical Race Theory” (Law School)
   • “Introduction to Critical Race Theory” (Sociology Department)
5. Stanford University:
   • “Critical Race Theory” (Law School)
   • “Race and Racism in America” (African and African American Studies Department)
6. University of Texas at Austin:
   • “Introduction to Critical Race Theory” (Sociology Department)
   • “Critical Race Theory and Education” (College of Education)
7. Yale University:
   • “Critical Race Theory” (Law School)
   • “Race and the Law” (Law School)
8. University of Wisconsin-Madison:
   • “Introduction to Critical Race Theory” (Sociology Department)
   • “Critical Race Theory and Education” (School of Education)
9. Columbia University:
   • “Critical Race Theory” (Law School)
   • “Race and Racism in America” (Sociology Department)
10. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA):
    • “Introduction to Critical Race Theory” (Chicana and Chicano Studies Department)
    • “Critical Race Theory and Education” (Graduate School of Education)

While it may be true that CRT and or courses built around CRT may not teach this specific detail explicitly it’s implicit and it’s even acknowledged and discussed in Education, even as just a “common misconception”. If you have a common misconception in education you have a failure to educate and people still walk out with the idea.

https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/where_did_we_get_the_idea_that_only_white_people_can_be_racist

Farmers. Farmers can make a lot of money, they hire “unskilled” immigrants to harvest crops and shit like that (often if not usually illegal immigrants) and “underpay” them. It’s a complicated situation that people usually look down on but everyone benefits in some way. Is it fair that a legal US citizen would be paid more for the same work? Not really because the same employee costs a lot more to employ, and some of that wage pays into the system whereas people paid under the table do not.

It’s also what they seem to be teaching in college.

Yes. Do you have anything of substance to contribute?

The only thing you’re fighting for here is being correctly bigoted.

It’s basically irrelevant that the owner of a company like X is an American from South Africa. If you took this same criticism and applied it anywhere else it would be immediately refuted and invalidated as simple bigotry.

There is an obvious difference between TikTok and X and if you’re trying to compare them like this and just use “south african owned” to connect it to “chinese” you’re being disingenuous, even stupid, and really I can only assume you’re being this dumb intentionally.

Explain how this is relevant to my point.

Disagree. I wouldn’t refer to a black owned business as being African, if the owner was born in Africa, and is a US citizen. If the business was based in Africa I would, if the owner was not American, I might.

1. The Chinese would benifit from a worse US, the “south african” is actually an American, in the same way African American citizens aren’t African, they’re Americans from Africa. As a side note it is funny but also depressing to see how legitimately racist leftists are so long as it doesn’t exactly match a very specific arrangement.
2. TikTok is brain rot
3. TikTok has an arguably wider reach than X
4. TikTok’s target demographic is more susceptible to manipulation