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  • Oppopity@lemmy.mltoComic Strips@lemmy.worldVanilla Ice
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    7 months ago

    In a post highlighting how this isn’t some recent Trump phenomena and there’s been problems this whole time, I see no reason to bring up Kent State and compare it to Trump now unless you think Trump also did Kent State. That’s another example against this being a Trump only issue and not something that’s a long part of US history.


  • Everything you’re asserting is false, but if you’re just going to call me racist then I’ll just fuck off

    Please do.

    and when everyone else who’s been upset about ICE stops caring because you’re calling them racist and they fuck off too, good luck standing off with ICE when a large portion of the country isn’t on board with you because you called them all racist for getting upset about you making broad generalizations about them based on their race.

    They won’t get upset because the non racists won’t get offended at something that isn’t make broad generalisations about their race.


  • But they were upset sooner. All of you keep making the same circular argument, “People should have already been upset!” They fucking WERE! How many times does that need to be said?

    I’VE ALREADY SAID THEY WEREN’T SAYING NO ONE EVER CARED.

    So apparently it has to be said a hundred fucking times before you stop strawmanning.

    Making sweeping generalizations about all white people is not “pointing out systemic racism,” it’s just racism. If you get offended by this then you’re telling on yourself.

    THEY AREN’T making a sweeping generalisation of all white people - they ARE pointing out systemic racism. The only people who get triggered by these things are racists. You’re a fucking racist. You saw a post being critical of the response white people are having and got offended because it couldn’t possibly be that systemic racism exists, surely they must be calling out all white people or something.


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    7 months ago

    You’re continuing to ignore the fact that it was already a large issue that people were upset about even before white people were brutalized and murdered on camera. People are upset about children being put in cages and separated from their parents. And people were already pointing out how we would all be at brunch right now if Kamala Harris (coincidentally, a woman of color and daughter of immigrants) had been elected.

    I’m not denying there weren’t people who recognised there was a problem. But there are a lot who didn’t and only started paying attention when it affected them. That’s a problem because if you only take issue with these things because it affects you, then you’ll only advocate for solutions that protect yourself rather then the rotten system as a whole. That’s how you wind up with people saying “if only ICE were given more training” or “Trump should’ve gone through the senate before invading Venezeula” or “If Kamala had won we’d all be at brunch right now”.


  • But they should have been upset sooner. It’s great that they’re upset now but if they don’t realise they should’ve been upset sooner then their anger will be misdirected at the actual cause of the issue.

    And it’s not a sweeping generalisation at every white person. Pointing out systemic racism isn’t racism. If you get offended by that then really you’re telling on yourself.