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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

I'm curious, how is it that adding a keffiyeh to the meme is racist?

Edit: @[email protected] - You were so vocal about calling people racist. Why are you now shying away from explaining why.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago (7 children)

I'm not calling people racist. As i explained previously I'm calling using a racial stereotype to not be okay.

A lot of people aren't racist on purpose, but the way they interact or joke about a certain group of people sometimes falls in poor taste.

Instead of people getting defensive, they should just try to understand that these people get racially abused everyday by people not even trying to because it's just so ingrained into their heads that what they say or what they do is normal.

Hell just yesterday I saw a post about middle easterns and one of the replies was something something AK47. There wasn't a single reply against it. People don't give a fuck about these minorities because no one chastises them about racist against them. Actually they just get more stubborn and act racist harder.

It hurts for a lot of people to read the words that i said because for many people, they cannot accept within themselves that some of the things they think or say about other minorities might be hurtful, and might make the people of these minorities feel uncared for or hated against.

I'm only trying to call out people's actions, i never meant to label anyone a racist here; sorry if people felt that way. We all do things that aren't the most savory to other people -- and i think that it's our responsibility to fix that or change that, just like how using the word or stuff like fell out of favour after people used it for a long time. The backlash was huge, but now people warm up to the changes, it just takes time.

It may all seem like a waste of time, but i think it was worth mentioning it in the comment section of this post. People are still clearly unaccepting of this opinion, and that's fine.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Don't really care about the votes, but surprised to see the people at lemmy are racist as well."

"I'm not calling people racist"

Which is it?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago

Yes in my first remark i pointed to people being racist rather than just mentioning their actions. My apologies.

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