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SiteGround turns racist to "support" and virtue-signal for Ukraine
I love SiteGround.
This one was truly dumb though, albeit sadly common these days.
SiteGround is now proposing its customers -and me- to block all Russian visitors:
As if despots weren't already all to happy censoring websites like TPM.
How is punishing all Russian citizens, including those who abhor the war in Ukraine showing "support to Ukraine"?
Funny enough, TPM contains plenty of the information with which many Russians might wake up to the political manipulation and propaganda, so it should be promoted there, not removed.
And during wars is exactly when you need more bridge-building, not less.
SiteGround is making the all too common mistake of equating different individuals with the actions of other unrelated individuals on the basis of a random and often weak group belonging -in this case, nationality-.
This is one of the reasons why TPM makes self-development as individuals, including looking at others as individuals, and not groups, so central.
Coincidentally, looking at people as individuals rather than as group members is also the only true, possible cure to racism.
Anything else is Medieval dark ages.
Stupidity in search of virtue-signaling truly makes the world a worst place.
Virtue signalling can be quite annoying, but doing it as a form of nonchallant warmongering to explicitly and actively harm millions of people is a whole 'nother level of toxicity and insanity.
Since they apparently think it were a good thing to actively harm millions of people based on the (indeed criminal) actions of some politician and his goons that they have no actual control over, I wonder if they would also cheer for some terrorist attack like 9/11 to happen, because that's the exact same toxic collectivist pack-mentality applied with harsher amounts of violence against random people happen to be born in a specific area.
But I also see a lot of people calling stuff like this out, and I like how your post goes to what seems the very heart of the issue - morphing masses of individuals into some fuzzy groups combined with the rival sports-team mentality (collective "us" vs collective "them"), which is the foundation for every war - in contrast to judging individials by their own actions.
And it also serves as a great filter to weed out dangerously naive (or even ill intended) people, or at least being aware of them, without having to actively do anything other than asking them what they think about actions like this.
Quote from Anon on March 23, 2022, 2:35 pmSince they apparently think it were a good thing to actively harm millions of people based on the (indeed criminal) actions of some politician and his goons that they have no actual control over, I wonder if they would also cheer for some terrorist attack like 9/11 to happen, because that's the exact same toxic collectivist pack-mentality applied with harsher amounts of violence against random people happen to be born in a specific area.
But I also see a lot of people calling stuff like this out, and I like how your post goes to what seems the very heart of the issue - morphing masses of individuals into some fuzzy groups combined with the rival sports-team mentality (collective "us" vs collective "them"), which is the foundation for every war - in contrast to judging individials by their own actions.
Bingo, great example to force-nudge people into some form of empathy.
And glad to hear that more people are calling it out.
Albeit people largely stay the same, changing the thinking and the mental processes do change people and does move humanity forward even without strictly genetic changes.
