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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 30-04-2017

Apr 30, 2017 12:00

If you follow any #ActuallyAutistic people online, you may have seen some upset recently (tags: autism testing OhForFucksSake ) How Not To Fight The Murder Zombies. (tags: society ) You can tell the writers of Doctor Who are non-immigrant white people because... (tags: immigration happiness drwho race society ) DOUBLE KING - a short, ( Read more... )

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seraphicwing April 30 2017, 14:31:20 UTC

Wow, they cacked up that "how autistic are you?" test by like, a lot. :(

skington May 2 2017, 02:26:41 UTC

The whole thing about the Doctor Who "we built a utopia and then people turned up with unexpected emotions and robot death mayhem ensued" = "the writers are privileged whites because they assume that colonists would be like them" is baffling to me. (And I should mention that I'm a privileged white cis male, so dear God if I'm mansplaining please stop me now.)

"It's written by white people": in the very next episode (which OP hadn't seen at the time, to be fair), Bill says basically "I can't go to 1812, I'm black, there's still slavery". "It's not written by immigrants": no, it's written about the come-uppance of the ruling class.

Surely the point of the episode is that humanity, in the face of a massive disaster, panicked and rushed a solution that went haywire, and it needed the Doctor to turn up and point out to them that they'd accidentally created a new sentient race, and any problems were down to the original hasty, faulty specification of said intelligent emoji robots ( ... )

skington May 2 2017, 02:49:12 UTC

I don't think it's worth linking to Boing Boing any more. The comments are gone, and they don't appear to add anything of interest to the stuff they link to. And that extract from the dangerous drinks article was actively misleading: activated charcoal is merely one of the many things that the article was concerned about, and by no means the most important one.