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Can someone explain all this "everyone is good but straight white men in America" bullshit to me? How is the world "everything but America"? Why is racism anything possibly negative about a race except free range on white people? Why is it that I'm so privileged that I'm not allowed in a homeless shelter in a small town because they're all living in grants for target minorities/disabilities/women/addicts?
If I didn't know any better, and I don't, I'd think the world is playing spades and white Americans are the dealer.
World News should be things that concern the whole world and include things originating from space even!
Because there are already communities for American news (News) and American politics (Politics), other communities were needed to give non-US centric news room to breathe.
The last thing anyone wants is another community that's Donald Trump and Elon Musk top to bottom.
There are already communities for news for literally every country. Why is America left out with North Korea to be excluded?
America isn't left out. "News" is exclusively US News. "Politics" is exclusively US Politics.
Ever heard the arguments against segregation? America goes on an island while world news is just "everyone but America"?
How about everyone gets their own news community and world news is whatever affects more than one country rather than whatever happens in a not-America country?
Anyone is welcome to make a community for whatever country interests them.
And this one here is for haters to specifically exclude a specific group.
No, this one is for people who don't want a feed dominated by US news. If you want that, "News" is available.
The poster is either a troll or a fucking moron, best not to feed it either way.
Right? Why should I be subbed to a different community to get my latest sports news? Or to hear what's happening in Helldivers? That's news too! Segregation is bad!
It's all on Lemmy dude. People can freely access any Lemmy community and add it to their feed to access that news. You're just complaining you can't force something on them that they aren't interested in (because if they were they'd already be subbed to the appropriate communities).
I think it's a rather natural reaction to strait white males beeing in power for all of the modern time and therefor beeing the ones that were made to set the rules and, even more importantly, decide what the discourse looks like. Hence the view on women, minorities, non "White" countries, etc is heavily formed by their views.
Can someone explain how you went from "This sub is for news about not America, if you want news about America there's a whole sub for that" to "straight white men are victims of systemic injustice"?
It seems like there is a step in between, like, "America is the victim of injustice because it isn't given priority status in the world news sub that has to be distinct because all the other news subs end up being about America." Some sort of persecution complex?
being a victim is great as long as you're not actually a victim. you get to be outraged and make demands of people and, because no one is actually victimizing you at all, there's no downside!
"Isn't given priority status" is totally the same as "specifically banned here". Move them goalposts harder.
You transitioned into panicking that cishet white Christians are being persecuted because there is a sub for US news and a different sub for other news, but it is the other people's hyperbole that is wrong, got it.
You just go on ahead and make up more stuff to argue about. I'll watch since my input isn't really represented here.
Your input isn't represented? Uh oh, sounds like you are being silenced and persecuted!
More like 'brave new world'-ed. You're just making a bunch of noise hoping that I dig a hole and people avoid me.
It went to that because you decided to misrepresent what I said. You did that because you don't have a response for my actual position and needed something easy to attack.
Yes: when you've become accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
You specifically are not allowed here because equality.
Anyone is welcome to be here. Americans just aren't allowed to make this another community dominated by American-centric news.
Why is the "News" magazine for American news and not world news? Why is there no "American News" magazine?
Did anyone say "American news here only"?
Go find me a post of a non-American news story.
I'll wait.
Or you could POST one ya fucking bum!
Go ahead and show me how easy it is. Go post this news story over there and let me know how it goes.
This isn't world news. This is Australia specific news.
who said you're not allowed here, or anywhere?
Bro. Go outside.