Perspectivist
joined 1 month ago
In Iran, women are required by law to wear the hijab. In Afghanistan, they’re required by the Taliban to wear a burka or at least a niqab. In Sudan, hijab was mandatory for women until 2019, and the same applies in Saudi Arabia and the Aceh province of Indonesia. But sure - go ahead and call me racist for even daring to suggest they’re doing it for any reason other than their own free choice.
If you’re not willing to grant me that virtually every woman wearing a burka or niqab does so because she has to, not because she wants to, then we’re so far apart on this that there’s nothing to discuss.
This isn’t about hijabs - it’s about burkas and niqabs. One covers everything except the eyes, and the other covers those too.
What makes it barbaric isn’t the desire to be covered, but the fact that it’s not the woman’s choice. Nobody dresses up in a bag willingly.
Everyone should be free to wear whatever they want - but that’s not what this is about. Nobody wears a burka or niqab because they genuinely want to.
It is a big part of the issue, but as Lemmy clearly demonstrates, that issue doesn’t go away even when you remove the algorithm entirely.
I see it a lot like driving cars - no matter how much better and safer we make them, accidents will still happen as long as there’s an ape behind the wheel, and probably even after that. That’s not to say things can’t be improved - they definitely can - but I don’t think it can ever be “fixed,” because the problem isn’t it - it’s us. You can't fix humans by tweaking the code on social media.
No one’s trying to ban religions here - you just don’t get a free pass for barbaric behavior because of it.
Would you make the same argument for genital mutilation or arranged marriages too? This isn't about fashion choises. It's about oppression. Not everything should be exported to other cultures.
Your profile says "religion is cancer" yet you seem fine with forcing women to cover their faces because their religion mandates it and their father/husband doesn't want other men seeing them.
Ofcourse not. The issue with social media are the people. Algorithms just bring out the worst in us but it didn't make us like that, we already were.
They also mindlessly broadcast whatever lies the CEOs of the big tech company’s are telling.
LLMs? Want to give an example of this? When ChatGPT 5 came out I asked it what the "thinking built in" means and it told me it's probably just a marketing term.