• recentSloth43@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Saudi Arabia isn’t a person. I hate it when news titles aren’t specific enough. Is it the government that bought them? A private company? Just a dude that happens to be Saudi? The implications can change drastically based on who bought it.

    Also the article link isn’t working for me so all i got is the title. And as most people that’d see it, they’d also only read the title, this type of simplification can lead to a lot of misinformation. Or worse, racism, as you combine a whole country and its people to one entity which is dehumanizing. I’m speaking from experience as a Saudi person who’s always grouped with the “saudi” or "Arabic " or “brown” groups instead of another human being.

    In short, news should stop generalizing and be more specific, especially in the titles, the part that most people will interact with.

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      16 days ago

      Saudi Arabia isn’t a person.

      Yes, it is. In an autocratic monarchy, in a dictatorship, everything belongs to the king. The house of Saud is treating the country as their personal property and let’s not pretend that anything would prevent the guy who killed a journalist in his embassy from accessing that data.

    • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      16 days ago

      unpaywalled: https://archive.is/7yc9S

      A Saudi Arabian company that was created by the Saudi Arabian government just purchased Pokémon Go

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Investment_Fund

      If you can’t see the article i will paste it for you.

      I’m speaking from experience as a Saudi person who’s always grouped with the “saudi” or "Arabic " or “brown” groups instead of another human being.

      So am i, and i’m also sick of it and the people who use this to fuel discrimination. I see this article as more of a reason to hate the sauds, not saudi people.

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      16 days ago

      I mean, if it’s in Saudi Arabia you know the royal family is in full control, so in this it kind of makes sense