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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] sirico@feddit.uk 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That looks like a few barrels worth

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

At least a tonne

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

TIL, my grandparents were white.

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 10 points 22 hours ago

Well its a black and white photo, color had not been invented yet.

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 2 points 21 hours ago

it says "most of"

[–] LowResBeer@lemmy.ml 62 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

American liberals spent YEARS fighting anyone who suggested racism was still alive in america. But how could it be? They elected a half black man as president?

Nevermind the indiscriminate bombings by said psychopath and the first election of trump. During bidens term, racism was dead again! Somehow!

Until those very same liberals used racism to explain kamala harris' rejection by the public. Even to this day they won't attribute racism in explaining ice's actions. In fact most didn't care how many people died at ice's hands until white people got shot in the face.

In summary, americans, and yes american liberals are deeply racist, selfish and uneducated people. Their worldview makes no sense. And they are all unfathomably, profoundly stupid.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago

American liberals spent YEARS fighting anyone who suggested racism was still alive in america.

The standard line was that racism was a Southern trait, while Northern and Western liberals had somehow expunged themselves of the habit. At the same time, you had liberals from the Carter era onward bemoaning failures within the African American and Latin American communities to integrate properly. It was always the minority's fault for failing to conform. It was never racism among liberals that widened the divide.

Even to this day they won’t attribute racism in explaining ice’s actions. In fact most didn’t care how many people died at ice’s hands until white people got shot in the face.

You can run this all the way back to the LA Riots, easily enough. Nevermind the anti-Muslim racism of the post-9/11 era, the Obama-era backlash to civil rights movements during Occupy and then again during BLM. It's always and forever the minority's fault for objecting to oppression. People of Color are never sufficiently civil. They don't respect the norms. They want special favors. They can't be trusted to argue in good faith. They've got dual loyalties. They're not real Americans.

Even when you have Obama or Harris on the fucking ballot, you need them or their proxies effectively apologizing for their blackness and denouncing anyone of color who doesn't agree with their neoliberal politics.

In summary, americans, and yes american liberals are deeply racist, selfish and uneducated people.

I don't think they're uneducated. All too often, I've seen racism taught - implicitly or explicitly - as justification for the modern social order. They're educated in bigotry. They're trained to think like this.

Its funny, if liberals spent half as much energy actually fighting racism rather than the idea it still exists maybe we would actually be getting somewhere

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[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 59 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Every time someone says ICE is "unamerican" i have a little aneurism inside

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can they be historically American, but ideologically unfit for what we want America to be and the values many of us hold, and therefore align with the values of change for the better?

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[–] LowResBeer@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 day ago (6 children)

It's like the donald trump is a russian asset talk,

Because no american could do such heinous things right?

Donald trump is AMERICAN and is a reflection of america. People just can't come to terms with reality, regardless of how clearly it's spelled out for them.

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[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Heyyy that photo was taken a couple miles from where I am sitting. Terrifying.

When I moved here, we rented a house in an all-black neighborhood. They weren't um, super warm. In my "post-racial white savior" mentality, I'm like, this is odd, I'm trying to desegregate this place! Eventually one neighbor took the time to kindly educate me. Many of those older folks had family, grandparents and uncles, who were lynched in pubic. Many of them remember that photo being taken, most knew the Little Rock Nine personally. Their neighborhood was about safety, about a place they could be without constant worry. They reflexively did not like seeing young white folks move in. Holy shit I suddenly got it. As a gay guy I could imagine that applying to my own minority status.

I live in a gayborhood now and sure enough, as the house next door goes on the market, we're trying to make it clear conservative straight folks are not welcome.

Perspective is interesting. I keep my mouth shut and my ears open when it comes to race, cause I grew up in a literally all-white town.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I'd be careful about saying you "got" it. You got a glimpse of it.

I remember going into a segregated laundromat in 2005 in Alabama. It wasn't legally segregation, but they absolutely had a black and a white laundromat, and I (white dude) went into the wrong one and felt very uncomfortable with all the looks I was given. I was eventually approached and told to leave and go to the white one, which happened to be much nicer, of course.

I thought at the time that I suddenly understood it. But black people deal with thay every fucking day, and I do not "get it" because of 10 minutes of racial discomfort in my 20s.

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