• potoo22@programming.dev
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    9 days ago

    I feel like there’s different levels of racism that need to be named or they just fall under the umbrella term racist and their severity gets lost and becomes a defense. Like there is oblivious racist (not intending to be racist, but doesn’t know better), to casual racist (likes stereotype jokes), to believing racist (believes in stereotypes), to supremacists racist (believes in race superiority), to supremacists activists (takes actions against other races) and probably more in-between levels.

    Like a casual racist would consider supremacists racism to be bad, but their jokes are “harmless” (in their opinion). So when we say there is a problem with racism, they ignore it because they don’t see a problem with their racism, (but they would have problems with supremacists racism).

    In this image, the supremacists activists racists are recognizing that he was not activists enough for them.

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      9 days ago

      So as an example, would South Africa’s government that chants “kill the Boer” or “shoot the whites” in public, and passes racist laws such as BEE be supremacist racists or have they ascended beyond that?

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    8 days ago

    The best argument that Charlie Kirk isn’t racist is that he’s dead and you can’t be racist if you’re dead.

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    8 days ago

    All his race baiting. His endless “debates” on college campuses. His shameless defending of trump. All momements are gone.

    Only to washaway as memes, in the mainframe.

  • bitteroldcoot@piefed.social
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    9 days ago

    Technically he is not racist anymore. He is just so much rotting meat.

    There isn’t a racist thought in his head. Because all brain activity has ceased.

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    9 days ago

    I never thought Charlie Kirk was a racist. He was always just really dumb and had done so much dumb stuff that he knew what to say to trigger people.

    • 0xDREADBEEF@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 days ago

      You didn’t hear the things he said you don’t think he’s racist. They’re very easy to find if you’re willing to look and open to the idea he may in fact had been racist before being shot.

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        8 days ago

        Let’s test this. In your opinion, was Charlie Kirk for or against LGBT tolerance? If you don’t know the answer to that, you also aren’t qualified to determine if Kirk was racist.

        • 0xDREADBEEF@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          8 days ago

          If he is for being tolerant of LGBT folks, how does that make him more or less racist? He can still think Black trans women are inferior to white ones, while saying trans rights. Just don’t let them fly planes if they’re black.

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      9 days ago

      He was a racist because he was dumb. Also a grifter, but it’s easy to grift yourself into a belief if your income depends on it and you’re already dumb.