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pkinsky on Feb 6, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as exec...

It's not always fun and games: I'm Assyrian (a middle eastern, ethnically Christian ethnicity). When the first news reports of ISIS ethnically cleansing Assyrians in areas under their control came out, prominent members of social justice tumblr started joking about it being 'karma' because white-passing Christian-ish people were on the receiving end of genocide.

dracht on Feb 7, 2016 [–]

Very progressive indeed. These kinds of expressions show their veil is thin and their agenda nefarious.

pkinsky on Feb 7, 2016 | [–]

Personally I think it's just a consequence of overly simple models of the world, not something more nefarious.

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