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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
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[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I feel obligated to provide some context here.

Australia certainly is, like most countries, "deeply racist" but exactly what that means and how we compare to other countries is contentious.

Calling immigration detention facilities "concentration camps" is disingenuous and has connotations that dont apply. At last count in 2021 there were 107 residents, all of whom could leave at any time, and were provided multiple resettlement options outside of Australia.

There are criticisms to be made but they are not "concentration camps".

The fauna thing is an obvious myth that doesn't withstand a moments critical though. There's a more comprehensive rebuttal here:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-20/fact-check-flora-and-fauna-1967-referendum/9550650

Australia does have deeply embedded tensions around race. They're not easily solvable problems. Are more salient example might be the recent rejection of the voice referendum, but that would take more than a few moments to read and understand.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Calling immigration detention facilities “concentration camps” is disingenuous

Someone hasn't heard of Nauru and the Pacific Solution...

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

The sentence you quoted links the Wikipedia article about the pacific solution, and the paragraph explains why calling them concentration camps is disingenuous. Well done.