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Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/exxonmobils-own-scientists-doubted-climate-fixes-the-company-hyped/
Replying to @adjectivenoun@lemmy.world
Oh please… did you believe the American Tobacco Company when it said cigarettes are actually good for you? How about the liquor cartels telling you drinking makes you irresistible to the opposite sex, or maybe how manly or babely you look with a couple carats of diamond embedded in some gold hanging off your body like a gypsy carries her coins.
Did you believe that shit? Nah…
Replying to @KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org
yes, and you could’ve said that without using a slur for and ethnically stereotyping Romany people.
Yeah this was pretty bad. Using the slur is quite understandable because the fact that it is a slur isn’t super widely known in my experience, especially among those who haven’t had much experience with Romani people.
But adding in such an explicitly racist caricature is so much harder to justify as an act of ignorance.