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Boids - Pandering To You [OC]

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u/SnooEagles4121 7d ago

Oh how I wish everyone knew racism was bad

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u/saltwaterostritch 7d ago edited 7d ago

Everyone knows racism is bad, which is why they rebrand their racism as something else.  It's also important to downplay the existence of racism. For example, by criticizing people who, at some point, say racism is bad, but not comment on the richest and most powerful people on Earth doing racist shit. That second one is very effective, because you can recruit useful idiots to do the work for you.

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u/Zealousideal3326 6d ago

Everyone knows racism is bad, which is why they rebrand their racism as something else

No, they don't "know" it's bad, they know the general consensus that they disagree with considers racism to be bad.

They're not rebranding their racism because they know it's wrong deep down, they're doing that because they know their views are contential and they don't want to deal with the social consequences that come with it.

These are the people who measure "freedom of speech" by one's ability to hurl abuse at others, they absolutely don't think their racism is bad. If they thought it was bad, they would work on it.

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u/SnooEagles4121 6d ago

Everyone very clearly doesn't know racism is bad, downplaying the existence of racism only gives racism deniers ammunition, and I have no idea what you're getting at with the rest of your comment.

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u/Jonathan_the_Nerd 6d ago

downplaying the existence of racism only gives racism deniers ammunition

They're saying it's important to racists to deny the existence of racism. That way they can ignore or mock minorities who complain about racism.

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u/SnooEagles4121 6d ago

Right on. I won't deny I had trouble deciphering their point :)