Your defense is “thats just what they called it back then” as though were forced to keep calling it the same thing today. Pass, lazy justification for casual racism.
Like, shocker, people 40-50 years ago we pretty loose with racist caricatures…
A mention of Chinese ethnicity or language is not racism you doofus.
As to your other mentioned example, ‘sitting indian style’ is racist because
A) indian as a reference to native americans is a racist term
B) it codes behaviour to ethnicity and thus serves as grounds for stereotypization
While referencing a Chinese room is not racism, as Chinese is a perfectly valid ethnicity, and they do have rooms in China. Additionally its a reference to a thought experiment, where the Chinese part refers to Chinese characters. Would ‘the hanzi script mandarin room experiment’ be more accurate? Not even necessarily, seems most people use hanzi writing interchangeable with the term ‘Chinese characters’
In conclusion: Youre too stupid to understand the nuances of this and therefore probably shouldnt get into discussions of racism with other people.
Ok, so I can’t tell if you’re trolling or being intentionally dense for the sake of outrage.
Zarobi commented on why it’s called The Chinese Room Experiment, which is because they use Chinese characters as the basis of information passed between outside and inside.
Chinese is used as the basis of the thought experiment because it’s a notoriously difficult language to learn because there’s thousands of different characters and pronunciations. You can’t expect the occupant of the room, an English speaker, to be able to pick up on it. They could only select correct answers just by pure chance.
The experiment wouldn’t work with other languages that share a Latin or Germanic base as the occupant could, with some effort, puzzle out some of the words. For example:
In either case, I can’t really take you seriously when your profile picture is from that scene in Clerks 2
So, being rude, hurling insults and calling other users stupid is okay as long as you dont like the person theyre insulting? Coolcoolcool, real objective and fair application of the established rules. Easy to see why you’re a mod.
Bro, you need to chill. My point is you’re being obtuse and making a mountain out of nothing. Meanwhile you’re crying racism while having one of the most racist (albeit the origin is meant in a satirical sense) clips/quotes from that movie as your bio.
It’s not racist lol. In case you need a refresher on the definition of racism:
discrimination, prejudice, or violence against people because of their race
There’s no prejudice or discrimination at all. It doesn’t even have anything to do with the culture or language. It could really be any language that the person in the room doesn’t understand, like Klingon, Latin, or whatever. Save your energy for actually racist phrases like “Chinesium” etc
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Your defense is “thats just what they called it back then” as though were forced to keep calling it the same thing today. Pass, lazy justification for casual racism.
Like, shocker, people 40-50 years ago we pretty loose with racist caricatures…
A mention of Chinese ethnicity or language is not racism you doofus.
As to your other mentioned example, ‘sitting indian style’ is racist because
A) indian as a reference to native americans is a racist term
B) it codes behaviour to ethnicity and thus serves as grounds for stereotypization
While referencing a Chinese room is not racism, as Chinese is a perfectly valid ethnicity, and they do have rooms in China. Additionally its a reference to a thought experiment, where the Chinese part refers to Chinese characters. Would ‘the hanzi script mandarin room experiment’ be more accurate? Not even necessarily, seems most people use hanzi writing interchangeable with the term ‘Chinese characters’
In conclusion: Youre too stupid to understand the nuances of this and therefore probably shouldnt get into discussions of racism with other people.
Lotta words to say you just wanna be racist.
Really not beating the ‘too stupid to comment on the issue’ allegations with that comment sweaty
Not really beating the casual racist with your flippant insults and uncivil responses.
Ok, so I can’t tell if you’re trolling or being intentionally dense for the sake of outrage.
Zarobi commented on why it’s called The Chinese Room Experiment, which is because they use Chinese characters as the basis of information passed between outside and inside.
Chinese is used as the basis of the thought experiment because it’s a notoriously difficult language to learn because there’s thousands of different characters and pronunciations. You can’t expect the occupant of the room, an English speaker, to be able to pick up on it. They could only select correct answers just by pure chance.
The experiment wouldn’t work with other languages that share a Latin or Germanic base as the occupant could, with some effort, puzzle out some of the words. For example:
In either case, I can’t really take you seriously when your profile picture is from that scene in Clerks 2
For those who haven’t seen Clerks 2
So, being rude, hurling insults and calling other users stupid is okay as long as you dont like the person theyre insulting? Coolcoolcool, real objective and fair application of the established rules. Easy to see why you’re a mod.
Bro, you need to chill. My point is you’re being obtuse and making a mountain out of nothing. Meanwhile you’re crying racism while having one of the most racist (albeit the origin is meant in a satirical sense) clips/quotes from that movie as your bio.
Lol those things are obviously not the same. Being rude is also not racism honey 😂
This reminds me of my ex’s mom describing someone as Mexican, then asking “Is that racist?” Well, now it is, Karen (her actual name).
Any mention of an ethnicity other than white isn’t racist. You’re racist for thinking it is.
It’s not racist lol. In case you need a refresher on the definition of racism:
There’s no prejudice or discrimination at all. It doesn’t even have anything to do with the culture or language. It could really be any language that the person in the room doesn’t understand, like Klingon, Latin, or whatever. Save your energy for actually racist phrases like “Chinesium” etc
Okay buddy. Weird hill to die on.