Flutterby™! : Telling on themselves

Telling on themselves

2025-05-01 17:09:37.143967+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

In Adrianna Tan's "From Fintech to Fin Tech" talk at North Bay Python, she put up a slide which said:

DO NOT WANT
Work on ads
Work on weapons
Abet genocides
Make the world worse
Use Microsoft Teams

making particular reference to Meta's involvement in the Myanmar genocides, but, of course the awful people said "this is anti-semitic", because any complaint about genocide is clearly about Palestine and "hey warfare is not genocide".

I've seen this locally too, where mentions of unhinged people harassing city staff and threatening people has been met with complaints of "the Petaluma Historic Advocates aren't unhinged".

So, yeah. People telling on themselves.

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