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@ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to People Twitter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish • 5 months ago

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@ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to People Twitter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish • 5 months ago
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  • DrSleepless
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    215•5 months ago

    A guy from South Africa made his app anti-black? Shocking.

    • @PunnyName@lemmy.world
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      The white guy who is only rich because of black oppression in South Africa, in fact.

    • @GrammarPolice@lemmy.world
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      7•5 months ago

      Does this comment/joke assume all white South Africans are racist?

      • TheLowestStone
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        71•5 months ago

        No. It simply states that it’s not surprising when one is.

        • @GrammarPolice@lemmy.world
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          6•5 months ago

          That’s kinda bigoted

          • @KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world
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            5 months ago

            It’s bigoted to invade a county and extort them for labor because you believe the native population to be inferior.

            • @GrammarPolice@lemmy.world
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              5 months ago

              I know. It is also bigoted to say you’re not surprised by a white South African being racist. That’s like saying you’re not surprised by a black African American being a criminal.

              • @bitjunkie@lemmy.world
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                26•5 months ago

                No it fucking isn’t

                • @GrammarPolice@lemmy.world
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                  Yes it is. You’re making a judgement about both groups based on the colour of their skin

                  • @Dkarma@lemmy.world
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                    13•5 months ago

                    Wow …no you’re not. Jesus, where did you learn logic???

              • @AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world
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                Also, I wouldn’t frame it the way you framed it, but I don’t think it is racist to say “I’m not surprised by a Black American having a criminal record”. Not because Black Americans are predisposed to crime, but because they are targeted by overpolicing and system racism lmao.

                Edit: 1/7ish Black American Men have been to prison. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5996985/#:~:text=We estimate that 3 %25 of,African American adult male population.

              • @eatCasserole@lemmy.world
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                2•5 months ago

                We had to invent a new term to describe the racism of white south Africans, they’ve earned a little suspicion.

          • Flying Squid
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            13•5 months ago

            I’m a white guy from Indiana. And if Elon Musk was from Indiana and someone said, “a guy from Indiana made his app anti-black? Shocking.” I’d be like, “I know, right? This state is full of racist as fuck white people.” I wouldn’t be offended.

            • @GrammarPolice@lemmy.world
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              But he’s not from Indiana though. The point I’m trying to make is that the commenter posed an unfair stereotype which suggested that white South Africans are proclived to racism even though there are no facts to support that argument. There is however evidence to suggest that Indianans or Idahoans or whatever other white inhabitants of famously racist US states are proclived to racism.

              Do you see my point?

              • Flying Squid
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                You’re right, he’s from an even more racist place. So I’m not sure why you think that’s an unfair stereotype when it is a fair one for a U.S. state that never had apartheid or slavery.

                • @GrammarPolice@lemmy.world
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                  2•5 months ago

                  🙆

                  • Flying Squid
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                    5•5 months ago

                    Interesting how eager you were for me to see your point, and when I responded to it, all you did was troll.

                    I guess I shouldn’t have expected any better.

              • @AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world
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                You know South Africa had(has?) apartheid, right? Culturally, yes, they are proclived to racism.

                edit: yeah it ended in 1990(1994?). Lmao. Within the last 30 years they were an apartheid state.

          • @PunnyName@lemmy.world
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            13•5 months ago

            Oh no. White people being the target of bigotry? Welcome to the fucking club that they started.

            • @GrammarPolice@lemmy.world
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              7•5 months ago

              Just calling out the double standard man. We don’t have to continue a bad practice.

              • @PunnyName@lemmy.world
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                7•5 months ago

                Oh, so the oppressed aren’t allowed to dismantle their oppressors? They must rise above and be civil? They are the ones that must be kind and courteous to those who would subjugate them further?

                What kind of bootlicker are you?

                • @GrammarPolice@lemmy.world
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                  Are you fucking dumb?

                  • @PunnyName@lemmy.world
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                    No.

                    You, on the other hand…

              • @grindemup@lemmy.world
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                2•5 months ago

                Sir, you are bringing logic to a Lemmy thread where only emotion matters. It doesn’t seem to be going well for you frankly.

                • @PunnyName@lemmy.world
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                  It’s flawed logic. Being kind and civil to one’s oppressors is literally further oppression.

                  Were you one of those people bitching about the 2020 George Floyd protests, too?

                • @GrammarPolice@lemmy.world
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                  I don’t know why i still bother honestly; only to be labelled a fascist/Nazi once they’re done with the downvote bombing. It’s disgusting.

            • @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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              that they started

              Are you being serious lol

              • @PunnyName@lemmy.world
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                3•5 months ago

                Yes.

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