I remember my friend using it here in NJ directed at a kid in our class who was from Pakistan which I found pretty odd as my buddy’s family is from Egypt. I’d expect a little solidarity but I guess middle school is not a great time. It’s definitely not very common here though.

It sounds like you’re not from the UK; there’s a lot of violent hate towards South Asians there. People have had their houses burned down while they’re called this very slur just this past week.

It’s Paki, a racial slur for South Asian people common in the UK.

Nah, it’s a regional racial slur common in the UK, Paki. I’d compare it to how people outside of the UK don’t realize it, but spaz is a heavy ableist slur over there too.

I’d generalize it to South Asian brown people in general as racists aren’t exactly geography experts

Shit has been boiling over in the past week regarding this. Andy Kim, one of NJ’s senators was pepper sprayed and injured his hand while attempting to mediate between the ICE brownshirts agents and the protestors. I’ve seen footage of ice agents pushing protestors into moving traffic. Rumor is they’re planning on moving all the detainees from this site to Texas, but I’m not sure how accurate that is.

It’s worth it to make the switch, imo

Do you have any LSD?

…wait, I mean boy do I love the invisible hand of the free market!!!

Nice try, FBI honeypot

(Kidding)

Just a troll

Yeah, I’ve heard about it. A lot of grifters latch onto a kernel of truth to lend some credence to their bullshit. I’m not dismissing anything

THEYRE TURNING THE TICKS GAY

This is interesting because 3,000 feet is well above the software-imposed ceiling of most consumer drones. I wonder if it was an older model with fewer restrictions or something else entirely.

In a vacuum sure that’s well and good, but if the child’s parents are shitheads then outing a kid figuring out their identity is just throwing another problem onto their plate. I could see kids getting sent to conversion therapy as a result of being outed.

It reminds me of the logic behind sanctuary cities; you don’t want immigrants to become easy prey for criminals because they’re afraid to speak to authority figures. I think it’s important to allow children to feel secure with authority figures outside of their parents in the event their parents are not good people and may potentially do them harm.

Well this sucks to hear. Can’t say I’m surprised that a shitty instance carries an innocuous name, following L Ron’s playbook. I’ve checked comments as far back as a few days ago getting peppered with bot downvotes so maybe I rustled someone’s jimmies, idk

I DM’ed the Lemmy.org admin to let them know

Agreed, I just feel its a bit of a leopards ate my face moment. He should have done the 86 47 in pearls so the administration could have clutched them both literally and figuratively.

Anyone else remember when this fuck announced he was investigating Hillary less than a month before the 2016 election? Prick.

Edit: I dunno why but this post is getting botted by a bunch of new accounts from Lemmy.org

The issue now is storage is getting pretty damn expensive