Comment by manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml on Anon gets calls from scammers

Fuck that. I don’t care where they’re from. Scammers don’t deserve to be treated with respect or dignity. They are subhuman trash and ruin people’s lives.

“Pajeet” is racist as fuck. We can hate scammers without being racist.

I don’t see how it’s any different from calling Russians “Ivan” of Germans “Fritz”. It’s not a nice thing to do but I’d place it pretty far down on the racism scale tbh.

Ivan or Fritz are real names/surnames from those countries which have completely different meaning now compared to how they were used in wars. Pajeet is a made up name only used so far to hate on Indians/ South Asians.

TIL it’s not even a real name

Nope. Closest I can think of are Prajyot and Pradeep.

It does look a lot like Paget, which is a French name pronounced differently

While yes it is absolutely racist, scammers are not capable of having an identity associated with someone who is on par with humanity. They’re far below animals.

I prefer the term “demihuman” or any other dehumanizing language so they know who they are.

Minus the human trafficked ones of course. Only the vast majority who do it willingly.

Using racial slurs isn’t only damaging and insulting to the person being directly talked to or about. I suggest adopting a blanket position against racial slurs in any context.

But what about <incredibly contrived specific example involving song lyrics, guns to heads etc.>, can I say it then?

If you can’t be made fun of, you’re the bad guy.

there is a huge gap between “making fun of” and “racist bullshit”.

I didnt say using racial slurs is correct. I said the act of scamming someone is so far removed from the identity of what it means to be human.

I never defended the terminology used in the post. Nor would I use that. Its shallow, and means far less than telling them they aren’t someone capable of receiving any care.

Scamming is core to what it is to be human, other animals don’t scam, and when they do, insofar as they do, we say they are like us

Yay, someone committed le wrong, that means we get dehumanoze them yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

I’m a bit lost. I didn’t justify using racist terms. I’m saying that scammers lack the core traits of humanity, compassion and care in others.

And they don’t deserve anything, let alone feeling comfortable in a conversation, or the air they breathe.

That is regardless of race, sex, gender. If you scam someone else, you don’t deserve life.

Dehumanization isnt just racism lol. Its any kind of denial of humanity to anyone. And i really dont care for it.

I get scammed every day on a near daily basis. I get scammed when my landlord raises my rent without fair cause. I get scammed when I look at inflated sale prices at my local grocery store for already shrinkflated goods. I get scammed when I get fees and tips tacked on to my bill when I go to the movie theater or a restaurant. It’s fucking infuriating but I don’t wish death upon my waitress, the store owner, or even my landlord. It’s all just unregulated capitalism in action. Scams, big or small, make money, and money moves us forward.

Just because some degenerate across the world with a funny accent who I will likely never interact with plays by the same rules doesn’t mean he should be thrown into a wood chipper. IMO.

have you read their comment? they literally said that scammers are “less than animals”. JFC

And a large portion of them are being trafficked for slave labor; so that’s fun

Doesn’t that actually absolve them of their shit behavior? It isn’t the same to try and scam grandmas because you want a shinier car than because you’re locked at a basement and beaten up if you don’t make your kidnappers money.

Sorry, when I said “So that’s fun”, I was being sarcastic

But that’s kinda what I was trying to get at. You don’t really know if a scammer is being trafficked or not, so casting a wide net that calls all of them human garbage becomes difficult

explain the calling back and death threats then?

Imagine you’re already a slave and then someone curses your mother.

right. laugh and move on because that’s a childish thing to do?

also, if I’m a slave, wasting my master’s time making prank calls and not making money will get me beaten.

Now, you imagine your mother getting cursed.

I think you severely misinterpreted my comment.

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