• octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    “This so-called racist nation is the same one that gave Black Americans their own exclusive water fountains.”

    Whew. Some of these sound a little too much like things that have actually been said, like:

    “We gave them jobs, didn’t we?”

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      This is my fave:

      Paul Gruber, Warehouse Manager “America is not a racist country, but a federation of racist states.”

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      I literally heard these exact words once: “we gave them equality and it wasn’t enough”. Yup.

      My response was ‘they were equals before, we didn’t give them anything.’ and all i got in response was a strong signal that the conversation was over

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      10 months ago

      Not to mention “ Slavery was good for Black people”. Nothing boils my blood more than this sentence.

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    Most of our mass shooters target very diverse crowds of innocent people

    Got a double play with that one.

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    “How many times do I have to cite very selective lines from the Constitution before people understand this?”

    Lol

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    As an indigenous Canadian … I’ve actually heard a variation of this one before

    “I’ve never faced any discrimination for being 3% Cherokee.”

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    You know, come to think of it, I never have met a slave before. Case closed, our white hands are clean (obviously).