• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    no, they do.

    They are enabling the racists to be further empowered to take further racist actions that effect other people. They deserve the same racism they’re enabling to happen to them.

    The guy’s an uncle tom. if you think that’s a shitty, racist thing to say

    1. He deserves it

    2. Maybe I should call him an uncle ruckus instead.

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      3 months ago

      I think there’s a worthwhile distinction between somebody “deserving” a consequence, versus having it coming because they (wholly or partially) brought it upon themselves.

      The classic example is drunk driving. We don’t execute people for it, nor should we. But when somebody is hammered and runs into a tree at 2x the speed limit, they kind of had that coming even though it IS still a tragedy. We look at the silver lining that at least they didn’t take any innocents with them.

      In this case, of course the racism is bad and shameful, and it’s the same assholes doing it. It should not be happening. But when the already-existing racists get help from one of the very people they’re trying to marginalize… I mean this is exactly the kind of crap the leopards eating faces meme was created for. I shouldn’t need to explain the absurdity, lol.