6d ago

TikTok Appoints Ex-IDF Solider as its 'Hate Speech Manager'

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TikTok appoints ex-IDF solider as its 'hate speech manager'

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Looks like a great time to continue never using TikTok.
- It was good. Until they shut down. It came back wrong
  
  It ushered in an era of drastically falling attention spans and fostered increased device addiction. It was never good.
That’s a different way of saying “TikTok appoints Israeli as its Hate Speech Manager.” IDF service is mandatory.
- You can still refuse. You'd have to sit in prison, but that's worth it at this point
  
  Definitely. But everyone who is alive who has held Israeli citizenship is either an (ick) IDF soldier, or is (like this person) an ex-IDF soldier.
  Although that makes me think: do those who have already started rabbinical training also need to do their 2 years?
- Mandatory or not, a past committing genocide and being taught to see people of a certain nationality as inherently subhuman while going all in on DARVO gaslighting should still exclude you from being in charge of anything related to bigotry and hate speech.
  
  I agree. Is that the case with this person?
  I know a few ex-IDF soldiers. One served from 1967-69 in Records hunting down artwork stolen by the Nazis. Went on to become a professor who taught world literature. Left Israel in the 70s to live and work somewhere more multicultural. Still not someone I’d recommend for this position, but “ex-IDF” covers a lot of people, some of whom might be very qualified for the position.
- Is it mandatory for woman?
  
  Yes
  
  Yeah.
- Right? Very politically charged title. Death to the IDF and all, but come on.
I mean... who else has more experience with hate speech?
- People wearing red hats.
  
  It's probably a tie.
he's the perfect hate speech manager, because I already hate him

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