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joeboy101

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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #9960 on: April 13, 2020, 07:48:43 PM »
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I don't know about anyone else but I was considering voting for Biden until I saw how toxic his supporters were online. I'm not going to vote for a guy whose fans shame rape victims.


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Supposed gang reports from here and the farms is a bad thing, but PoliEra gang reports are all good :teehee

How is that a sensitive thread  :lol

I think they're referring to the posters.

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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #9961 on: April 13, 2020, 07:48:57 PM »
So like
Do those guys just want four more years of Trump or

Are you asking this to the salty Bernie Chumps at RE or the Neoliberal bitches at PoliEra?
Just in general, I'm shocked how a significant portion of them have gone from DUMP TRUMP AT ANY COST to GUESS I'M NOT VOTING CUZ I DON'T LIKE THIS DUDE

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« Reply #9962 on: April 13, 2020, 07:49:16 PM »
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Would Bernie have known about the Reade allegations?

My sweet summer child...

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Of course he does, either he doesn’t care or he thinks that is bullshit  :trumps
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« Reply #9963 on: April 13, 2020, 07:50:33 PM »
So like
Do those guys just want four more years of Trump or

Are you asking this to the salty Bernie Chumps at RE or the Neoliberal bitches at PoliEra?
Just in general, I'm shocked how a significant portion of them have gone from DUMP TRUMP AT ANY COST to GUESS I'M NOT VOTING CUZ I DON'T LIKE THIS DUDE

Being fair, even people here have similar feelings.

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Kick Trump out you fools...
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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #9964 on: April 13, 2020, 07:53:20 PM »
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the media will 1000000% be on his ass from now on. zero fucks given now.

:mike

https://www.resetera.com/threads/white-house-press-briefings-for-coronavirus-taskforce.177660/post-31247589

Wait the media wasn't on him before???? :o :o :o

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« Reply #9965 on: April 13, 2020, 07:55:31 PM »
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I don't know about anyone else but I was considering voting for Biden until I saw how toxic his supporters were online. I'm not going to vote for a guy whose fans shame rape victims.


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Supposed gang reports from here and the farms is a bad thing, but PoliEra gang reports are all good :teehee
that's a good fuckin line :delicious

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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #9966 on: April 13, 2020, 07:55:34 PM »
CNN's Chyron Guy Calls Fuckface (trump) Out During Press Conference
https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnns-chyron-guy-calls-fuckface-trump-out-during-press-conference.184308/

Something about the people who replace Trump's name with "Fuckface", "Shitstain", "Drumpf" brings about the image of a raging 6 year old.

Like yeah, you're going to impotently change his name to a schoolyard nickname that'll totally own your oppressor who doesn't read your irrelevant gaming forum.

Meanwhile you and your ilk are conspiring the bans of uppity sexual assault/rape survivors because they're being openly negative about your rapist, neoliberal candidate in multiple threads.

Are you going to bat now for people like MuteKi and KetKat?

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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #9967 on: April 13, 2020, 08:03:46 PM »
Maybe after the primaries I will start giving likes again. Until then, everyone is in quarantine.

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« Reply #9968 on: April 13, 2020, 08:04:42 PM »
so...now?

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« Reply #9969 on: April 13, 2020, 08:07:14 PM »
so...now?

Two weeks to see if the virus is eliminated from the system. I still see a lot of you in denial or anger steps. I want to see acceptance or apathy to reopen the economy.

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« Reply #9970 on: April 13, 2020, 08:10:23 PM »
i can never tell if you are actually stupid or you just pretend to be on the internet

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« Reply #9971 on: April 13, 2020, 08:14:31 PM »
being able to post "edit: thank you for the gold kind stranger" four times :rejoice

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« Reply #9972 on: April 13, 2020, 08:14:34 PM »
i can never tell if you are actually stupid or you just pretend to be on the internet

No offense, but you are pretty transparent in what stuff gets you mad.  :trumps

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« Reply #9973 on: April 13, 2020, 08:15:19 PM »
actually stupid confirmed :lol

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« Reply #9974 on: April 13, 2020, 08:17:03 PM »
Dead as Bernie’s campaign.


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« Reply #9976 on: April 13, 2020, 08:23:12 PM »
"lol baby mad" is this entire thread :lol

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« Reply #9977 on: April 13, 2020, 08:29:35 PM »
...

I just finished Mario Galaxy 2 and Super Paper Mario yesterday. I prefer Odyssey and Super Paper Mario does a lot of padding.

I’m fine overall, the quarantine is actually relaxing to me to an extent.

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« Reply #9978 on: April 13, 2020, 08:56:39 PM »
CNN's Chyron Guy Calls Fuckface (trump) Out During Press Conference
https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnns-chyron-guy-calls-fuckface-trump-out-during-press-conference.184308/

Something about the people who replace Trump's name with "Fuckface", "Shitstain", "Drumpf" brings about the image of a raging 6 year old.

Like yeah, you're going to impotently change his name to a schoolyard nickname that'll totally own your oppressor who doesn't read your irrelevant gaming forum.

Meanwhile you and your ilk are conspiring the bans of uppity sexual assault/rape survivors because they're being openly negative about your rapist, neoliberal candidate in multiple threads.

I was coming to this thread to post something very similar so I'm glad someone beat me to the punch. Every thread title is PRESIDENT SHITBAG DOES X and it's really funny every time for all the wrong reasons.

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« Reply #9979 on: April 13, 2020, 09:02:53 PM »
the best part is the title always has (trump) in there too

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« Reply #9980 on: April 13, 2020, 09:44:55 PM »
PUTIN'S CHEETO DICKED LIL PAY PIG (TRUMP)

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« Reply #9981 on: April 13, 2020, 10:17:52 PM »
impeach OBUMMER he was born in HAWAII NOT THE U S A
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« Reply #9982 on: April 13, 2020, 10:24:36 PM »
IIRC, that's done because people complained about all the titles like that and rather than realizing people were complaining because the titles were embarrassingly stupid they thought people were complaining because PRESIDENT FUCKFACE MCDICKCHEESE wasn't clear about who it was talking about.

These are the same impotents who think you can solve problems preemptively with a READ STAFF POST in the title.

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« Reply #9983 on: April 13, 2020, 10:28:03 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-some-of-yall-learned-not-to-use-females-as-a-noun-but-why-are-some-of-yall-using-women-as-an-adjective.184095/

Oh wow, who the fuck ever could have predicted that jumping on people's shit and calling them incels denying females' humanity for using a word could ever have led to them not wanting to use that word?

 :neo :titus

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« Reply #9984 on: April 13, 2020, 10:34:19 PM »
User Banned (1 month): Xenophobia

How many people are in China? A couple billion? They should grow some balls and over turn the curupt communist government. China is a descrace to the world.

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« Reply #9985 on: April 13, 2020, 10:40:44 PM »
also:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/beijing-tightens-grip-over-coronavirus-origin.183459/post-31178325
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I'm just not making excuses, if the CCP is so bad I'm sure the billion plus Chinese people in China could get rid of them. That's what has always been done before with shitty rulers. What's so different about them? Are they inmortal fucks?
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user banned (permanent): victim-blaming the populace of an authoritarian regime

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« Reply #9986 on: April 13, 2020, 10:41:08 PM »

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« Reply #9987 on: April 13, 2020, 10:57:20 PM »
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It is racist to presuppose that about every individual.

There's no such thing as reverse racism. Just racism. What we see in the story in the OP is racism, and what we demonstrated by multiple posters in this thread is racism. Hell, there's an unmoderated racial slur on the first page for good measure.

Maybe the lesson learned should be that people should stop being racist rather than believing they get a pass for one reason or another.

Just be goddamn good to each other.
i love this forum #trusttheprogress

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« Reply #9988 on: April 13, 2020, 10:59:30 PM »
User Banned (2 weeks): Inflammatory false comparison

You're making sweeping, negative assumptions about me personally based on my skin color, without knowing me, my friends, my values, my convictions, or actions. Does that sound familiar? Don't we have a name for that?

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« Reply #9989 on: April 13, 2020, 11:08:18 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/we-need-to-have-a-talk-on-how-we-treat-sexual-assault-victims-on-this-site.181172/post-31250202
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User banned (duration pending): Sending staff an abusive email.

DM'ing Cerium seems to be the only way to get any grievances noticed (though will probably still be dismissed; just to your face). I'm sorry for the OP and anyone affected here.

It feels like, once again, we're getting close to the same point we were during Trans Awareness Week last year (re:staff vs victimised members).
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« Reply #9990 on: April 13, 2020, 11:14:19 PM »
A fucking descrace to the world.

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« Reply #9991 on: April 13, 2020, 11:15:20 PM »
User Banned (2 weeks): Inflammatory false comparison

You're making sweeping, negative assumptions about me personally based on my skin color, without knowing me, my friends, my values, my convictions, or actions. Does that sound familiar? Don't we have a name for that?

You know, at what point does the moderation just make a staff post that says "racism against white people doesn't exist" and enforce it as policy?

The whole reason it isn't enforced is because you can give people leeway for generalizations and stuff said when people are pissed off, nobody ever actually means ALL white people right? Etc etc. But here we have an example of a thread full of people saying "Yes, ALL white people" ironically or not, and they dont do shit. This is the easy time to step up and say you enforce the rules because that doesnt foster any sort of good faith conversation and will only derail the thread massively, but they dont bother so they can jerk themselves off and ban people for pointing out the rules are being skirted.

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« Reply #9992 on: April 13, 2020, 11:16:28 PM »
vote shaming  :lol :lol :lol

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« Reply #9993 on: April 13, 2020, 11:22:34 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-all-white-people-racist.184470/

Strap in boys.

Poll results: Are all white people racist?

No - 71%

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« Reply #9994 on: April 13, 2020, 11:27:39 PM »
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I tried to discuss it with the person who posted, and it resulted in (what I considered) a derogatory "you won't get it" type of response. She is white and LQBTQ, so I value her perspective, but the conversation seemed to get a bit heated so we stopped it.
oof

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« Reply #9995 on: April 13, 2020, 11:29:28 PM »
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@DigitalOp and @Nepenthe You have some really good posts, I think you would both be able to give some critical insight.
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« Reply #9996 on: April 13, 2020, 11:32:36 PM »
also:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/beijing-tightens-grip-over-coronavirus-origin.183459/post-31178325
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I'm just not making excuses, if the CCP is so bad I'm sure the billion plus Chinese people in China could get rid of them. That's what has always been done before with shitty rulers. What's so different about them? Are they inmortal fucks?
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user banned (permanent): victim-blaming the populace of an authoritarian regime

I think that guys argument is flawed but calling it victim blaming is the most hilarious shit

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« Reply #9997 on: April 13, 2020, 11:36:52 PM »
To my understanding, no, only white people can be racist because we are the oppressor. The oppressed can't be racist. I had an ex-girlfriend who was brown-skin, and her dad hated me because I was white. It was an issue between us (she's an ex), but eventually I just learned to call it "discrimination" rather than racism.

"I eventually learned that the guy hating me for the color of my skin wasn't racist"

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« Reply #9998 on: April 13, 2020, 11:38:05 PM »
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@DigitalOp and @Nepenthe You have some really good posts, I think you would both be able to give some critical insight.
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« Reply #9999 on: April 13, 2020, 11:38:35 PM »
I don't know about the racist part but a lot of cacs seem to be distinguished mentally-challenged.

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« Reply #10000 on: April 13, 2020, 11:40:13 PM »

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« Reply #10001 on: April 13, 2020, 11:41:27 PM »
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uh, yeah, and if anyone tells you differently, they're lying. As a white dude, who grew up in a racist household, around racist media, but it blunt or subtle, it's ingrained in pop culture. It's ingrained in us. I've come a long way and barely even talk to my family as an adult. I learned they were terribly wrong at a young age when my first best friend was black and didn't live up to the bile my family were spewing about brown people in general.

Yet, so much of their shit was ingrained in me, even into my young adulthood fearing a black man or having some shitty instant racist thought that is so far from me. I'm not at all racist, but racism is in my blood.
look at this fuckin cac

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« Reply #10002 on: April 13, 2020, 11:48:12 PM »
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Also, all men are sexist and all cishet people are queerphobic. This is, unfortunately, normal. You're taught from birth, regardless of your gender identity, that women are inferior and that they live in a "man's world". From there, you're taught that gay men are weak like women, lesbian women are trying too hard to be like men, and trans people are sexual deviants.
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« Reply #10003 on: April 13, 2020, 11:49:58 PM »
a lot of this sounds like victim blaming of a populace that lives in a fuckface (Trump) regime

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« Reply #10004 on: April 13, 2020, 11:56:24 PM »
Any first generation minority who says their family isn’t hella racist is a liar lmao

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« Reply #10005 on: April 13, 2020, 11:58:41 PM »
very curious thread to have right after the nascar thread

I really like the poster that said "Generalizations in any capacity are never good OP."  jeez could've used that post yesterday.

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« Reply #10006 on: April 14, 2020, 12:00:53 AM »
Any first generation minority who says their family isn’t hella racist is a liar lmao

third gen still got those racists aunts and grand parents
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« Reply #10007 on: April 14, 2020, 12:04:33 AM »
Before ResetERA.com can judge if all white people are racist or not (they are, we don't need to judge this) they should settle on a definition of racism first. Especially systemic and institutional.

And the staff definitely need to figure out what the difference is between race, ethnicity and nationality.

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« Reply #10008 on: April 14, 2020, 12:15:56 AM »
You have people in that thread actively getting pissed off because they are being called racist or homophobic (or both) despite going into detail about their upbringing instilling in them to not be racist or the fact they have gay parents who stomped out any possibility of raising a homophobic son/daughter....and yet moderation does nothing to tell the ones making accusations to knock it off.

Now excuse me, gotta let my brother and his husband know I'm actually homophobic because a spin-off video game forum told me so.

Fucking peak REEE in that thread.

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« Reply #10009 on: April 14, 2020, 12:42:01 AM »
It's not really something worth getting pissed off over. These dudes are saying everyone is racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. and there's nothing that can be done about it. It's not like they're going to tell you anything except "be better" a standard which they exempt themselves from despite admitting their own bigotry.

They don't want people to actually be better, they just want temporary submission. And not the good kind of submission. (PBUH)

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« Reply #10010 on: April 14, 2020, 12:50:53 AM »
also:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/beijing-tightens-grip-over-coronavirus-origin.183459/post-31178325
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I'm just not making excuses, if the CCP is so bad I'm sure the billion plus Chinese people in China could get rid of them. That's what has always been done before with shitty rulers. What's so different about them? Are they inmortal fucks?
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user banned (permanent): victim-blaming the populace of an authoritarian regime

I think that guys argument is flawed but calling it victim blaming is the most hilarious shit

also if this should be accepted as true how the fuck is it not victim blaming to claim people from the USA need to get off their stupid asses and rise up against their government/Trump

"oh but they elected him" bruh the people of China "elect" their leaders every single day by tolerating their existence in places of power and not doing anything to stop them  :doge
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« Reply #10011 on: April 14, 2020, 12:54:25 AM »
very curious thread to have right after the nascar thread

I really like the poster that said "Generalizations in any capacity are never good OP."  jeez could've used that post yesterday.

only a sith deals in absolutes
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« Reply #10012 on: April 14, 2020, 01:12:35 AM »
Quote from: Threadmarks Pretty amazing and thorough response New
*(breathes in)*

*(breathes out)*

Alright kids, let's talk about how ideas spread. Marketing and advertising, propaganda, philosophy, whatever. Let's just start with this.

We can all acknowledge the fact that exposure to concepts will inevitably result in an individual being at least subconsciously aware of those concepts. Whether it's the fact that advertising is even a thing that, you know, works, the numerous stories of family members being lost to the Fox News or alt-right pipeline, the fast spread of memes, or even that "representation matters" because seeing folks on screen allows for the formation of even basic parasocial relationships which in turn fosters empathy for outgroups, I think you would be hard-pressed to argue against the fact that "continuous exposure to information makes a human being more susceptible to absorbing that information."

Now let's talk about demographic spread, or like, how folks kinda congregate and live with each other.

Taking data from the US Census Bureau from it's 2013-2017 American Community Survey, black and white segregation has... not actually moved all that much since the beginning of the century, with a dissimilarity index around 70 on average. White people, largely, keep to themselves, while black people do so as well but are seeing more integration with Hispanic/Latinx populations (howdy y'all). This is due to many factors regarding economics and business and culture and all that good shtuff I don't feel like talking about while I'm absolutely starving right now. But yeah, that's just another fact. White people largely still keep to themselves, and it really wouldn't be out of the question to call America segregated in all but law.

Okay. Do we agree on these two things as, like, facts? Advertising works, and America's population tends to cluster by race?

Good.

Alright.

NOW We can talk about racism.

Because racism is not just a conscious belief? It's like a spectrum of thoughts and behaviors, big ones and small ones, to varying degrees of consciousness where the outcome is inevitably a disdain or distrust of another race. And the sad fact is, America (and by extension Europe; you all started this mess) has done a bang-up job of putting out a shitload of propaganda both about the inferiority of black and brown people and the superiority of white people for centuries. The glossing over of native genocide as "manifest destiny," the fact that you all thought it was a good idea to allow confederates to rewrite history, the continuous hostility to black and brown protest, the awkward consumption of black and brown media that results in erasure, the outright conscious efforts to just outright write scientists, politicians, artists out of history, the fact that white people literally took one of the most inspiring Biblical figures from the Middle East and began to depict him as a white dude when... he couldn't have been white? The police in general..... Oh, Zwarte Piet; can't forget that! The Mounties committing genocide against the natives under Trudeau's watch.... Hell, Trudeau's blackface.

I mean, I literally don't think I have the character count to just go on about how much stuff, how much information, how much propaganda, has existed and continues to exist about how black and brown folks just ain't shit compared to white people.

But even if you're conscious of its existence and work to bat those nasty thoughts away... it doesn't mean the programming isn't working, hasn't already worked. If it takes seven viewings of an advertisement for you to remember a product, even subconsciously, you cannot dismiss centuries of cultural advertising. Especially when you are without the means to actively combat it. Because let's be honest, white people are fucking terrible at uprooting and getting rid of racism! And I can say that with confidence because in 400 years of undisputed rule in America the best you could do in 2016 is elect Donald Trump.... Donald Trump. You all chose to do that.

You largely don't live around black and brown people- the last Census says so- so the most exposure you get to us, if any, is through the media and forums like this one. But some tenuous viewings of Black Panther and readings of my posts can't compete with the fact that white people live and work around white people 24/7, who have been inundated across generations that they are the best, and it's an indoctrination that has been passively allowed to happen. Those pictures of white folks screaming at Civil Rights protestors, the lynchings, the concentration camps?

I mean, think about it. Those people were never arrested. Never punished. Never admonished. Most of them weren't even publicly named. They were allowed to go on and continue living their lives without having to confront the fact that they were, indeed, the baddies. It simply became something you couldn't talk about openly. You couldn't "tell it like it is." But that didn't mean they weren't spouting it around the house, on the job, at the dinner table. It didn't mean they weren't distrusting of the few black and brown folks they saw at the store, or on the corner, or on TV. That's why you still have shitty family members at holiday gatherings. Because there aren't any consequences for white supremacist thought, not really. There's always a place to go to stew in it to some degree, or to at least never confront it.

It's also why most people don't confront said shitty family members. It's not a big deal to you. The effects of white supremacy have worked on you too, and thus it's much more easier to let Uncle Bob spew his shit about the wall again than to actually take a meaningful dive into anti-racism. And even aggressive anti-racists like Tim Wise, those who come along once in a blue moon, still slip up once in awhile and let the message take over.

I say all this to say this: The thought that there is any white person on Earth where colonialism has touched that has not been susceptible to white supremacist thinking is laughable. The question is not "Are all white people racist?" The question should be "When are white people going to step up and actually work towards making a more equitable world?"

.... I'm going to go get food and pour one out for my mentions.

EDIT: Don't know how my post cut off. OH WELL.
OP should thread mark this post.

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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #10013 on: April 14, 2020, 01:22:09 AM »
I say all this to say this: The question is not "Are all white people racist?" The question is not "When are white people going to step up and actually work towards making a more equitable world?" The question should be "When are they going to get to the fireworks factory?"

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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #10014 on: April 14, 2020, 01:29:53 AM »
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Holy moly, threadmark this shit.

Thank you for taking the time to type that out.
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Brilliantly put.
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This is, without a doubt, the best post on Era I've ever read.

Holy fuck.
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I am so glad you said all of this so I didn't have to break my fingers typing the same exact thing.

End thread. This is it. Period.
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Great post but this in particular. Thank you!
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THANK YOU! Couldn’t have said it better myself. Saving this post for future reference.
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Shit is so true I need to sit down!!!


This was too much facts my guy!!! like holy shit!! better than I could even begin to type!
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Thanks for such an in-depth and thorough response.
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This is like getting a four course meal when you just wanted a hot dog, good shit
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THIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!
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This post is just kinda perfect.
how many of these people do you think actually read that word salad?

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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #10015 on: April 14, 2020, 01:32:02 AM »
Xenophobia is a self preservation mechanism found in pretty much all complex lifeforms. Additionally, humans think in categories because that's just how brains work. Complaining about those things is about as productive as complaining about gravity.

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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #10016 on: April 14, 2020, 01:36:49 AM »
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benjipwns

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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #10017 on: April 14, 2020, 01:40:27 AM »
That's way too coherent of a thesis statement for what Nepenthe wrote.

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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #10018 on: April 14, 2020, 01:54:44 AM »
Meanwhile in China: Huh? Get rid of them? Why? We like them! You get rid of yours first, laowai

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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #10019 on: April 14, 2020, 02:14:30 AM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/nascar-driver-drops-n-word-on-live-twitch-stream-update-suspended-indefinitely-personal-apology-issued.183780/post-31208895

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Honestly, I think all white people use that word regularly around their other white friends only. Then that moment in the heat of the moment they blurt it out by 'mistake' every time.

I am black and I never use that word with, 'er' or 'a'. So when I get angry I never blurt it out by mistake. Why do all white people do it by mistake?

I know he is Japanese but I am sure the majority of his acquaintances or white.

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