• @BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    “I never meant to say a racist thing” says woman who said a racist thing.

    “[…]again, that’s not what I was trying to do.”

    Ok so what were you trying to do when you posted this nonsense?

  • @HairyHarry@lemmy.world
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    472 months ago

    “I’m not a racist,” she said

    How DUMB can you be to post such hateful fingerpointing if you aren’t indeed racist?

    • @Clent@lemmy.world
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      142 months ago

      The worst kind of racist.

      “I’m not a racist, I just spread rumors that are based on racist ideology.”

      Being dumb isn’t an excuse; it’s a prerequisite.

      The only hope here is that this specific moment forced her to recognize her racism and she stops spreading it going forward. She’ll still be racist and she wakes to her own culpability

      • @HairyHarry@lemmy.world
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        02 months ago

        Do you remember that reddit moment after everybody and their mother was witchhunting the wrong Boston bomber and some people agreed to not let this happen again? The whole world needs this kind of moment.

        • @Clent@lemmy.world
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          02 months ago

          You think this is the same thing?

          Because I don’t see how this is witch-hunting by social media when this person came out and said she did it and really that doesn’t matter because it’s the right that ran with it. They cannot hell themselves from being overtly racist anymore. That’s not on this random internet women.

          • @HairyHarry@lemmy.world
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            12 months ago

            It’s kind of the same thing, yeah.

            The main problem is posting, reposting and forwarding shit for likes. In this special case that persons might be unsanely racist. But I insist: Many people don’t want to think, what harm could result in this stupid behaviour.

            What made it worse is, what the right DID with this thing and how the right KNEW how everybody would just believe this shit.

            • @Clent@lemmy.world
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              02 months ago

              Yeah. Not the same thing.

              Pointing the finger at someone who was not involved in anyway is something very very different.

              This person literally got the ball rolling. They are not an uninvolved participating in the event.

              Wanting to see it as similar is about you and leads me to believe you were at least a passive participant in the witch hunting of the bomber suspect. Perhaps not, but you are clearly over fitting that specific series of event to this current event for a reason that is personal to you.

              • @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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                12 months ago

                Whoa calm down. Both scenarios involve making unsubstantiated claims on the internet and it spreading around until people become convinced it’s real. They are similar.

                Everyone should question things more before they post “something they heard” .

                • @Clent@lemmy.world
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                  02 months ago

                  No. This person literally says they started it. It’s not the same because it’s not a false accusation. This is being reported by new outlets who verified their sources. It’s journalism not a witch hunt, it’s not my personal failing for not recognizing the vast difference here.

              • @HairyHarry@lemmy.world
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                02 months ago

                Wanting to see it as similar is about you and leads me to believe you were at least a passive participant in the witch hunting of the bomber suspect.

                Bro…

  • @makyo@lemmy.world
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    122 months ago

    I’m starting to feel like this says more about Ohioans than it does about Hatians

    • @darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.mlOP
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      32 months ago

      It’s wild he is viable as a presidential candidate.

      He’s either a potential world leader easily fooled by random people online OR one deliberately lying to incite racial violence.

  • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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    the neighbor told Lee she thought the cat was the victim of an attack by her Haitian neighbors

    Lemmy: RACIST BITCH!

    OK, maybe she shouldn’t have casually repeated it, but put down the pitchforks, she didn’t make the accusation.

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      She also didn’t bother to question the absurdity of it.

      She also had the choice to post it, without naming the country the blamed people where coming from (why should it matter anyway?).

      • @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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        12 months ago

        Well Zuckerberg and Musk would be at least partially to blame since their algorithms do a lot of the broadcasting.