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He's a piece of shit, but calling Ramaswamy "Ramalamadingdong" is pretty gross to me.

I think in terms of mutable and immutable characteristics.

We can choose to have integrity, dignity, honesty-- things he chooses not to. We can't choose our ethnicity, surname at birth, bone structure, childhood hardship.

People find it acceptable to make fun of people enacting character they don't like by transferring to things they don't understand or don't regularly encounter.

Think about some feature of yourself that's unusual but immediately apparent. I have a large facial mole, for instance. Think about how it sucks when people put down that feature for no good reason. It fucking sucks.

Then try to imagine: the thing that's unusual is something everyone in your family, or your community, or your culture, possesses. Maybe it's even a source of dignity and pride, like wearing a turban to show your religious devotion. But most of the majority culture doesn't understand or regularly encounter it, so it's just a joke. Or a threat. Or a scapegoat. It's hard to tell the difference, sometimes.

I call this Machinical Turking

That was one that you can just tell was a very highly contested script that just kept getting rewritten again and again by writers with very different sensibilities. The core idea is great, but man is the execution uneven

It probably was at some scale, but it's just not attested. And it certainly wasn't the entire nation..

The Babylonian exile on the other hand is attested. That was more like a royal hostage situation than slavery though, the Babylonians sacked Jerusalem and took the nobility back with them.

Please don't