Things are tense here, for sure, but you gotta take a deep breath and step back from it and know when the joke isn’t a direct attack on you (unless it is), and try not to cheapen words like bigotry by defensively applying it to an arguably accurate depiction of many Americans. Don’t prove their joke by missing the nuance yourself.
Yeah, I hate this idea that suddenly it’s okay to judge people as a group of millions if the “conditions are right”. That opens a door we should want to keep closed
It’s still pretty shitty to judge an entire population and paint them with one generalized brush, no matter how you frame it. You assume my annoyance is personal but it’s not.
As a world citizen I say: people in every country are every given attribute and we don’t need to pretend anyone is inferior to others, as op and people like them always seem eager to do.
Plenty of Americans can handle nuance. But cool bigotry though
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Explain that.
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Probably because it’s super fucked up and you’d be banned. Cool
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someone needs a nap
whoever upvoted that kilometered comment probably has the same mindset jsyk, so thats an opportunity for some mods
Thanks buddy. I love you too.
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Things are tense here, for sure, but you gotta take a deep breath and step back from it and know when the joke isn’t a direct attack on you (unless it is), and try not to cheapen words like bigotry by defensively applying it to an arguably accurate depiction of many Americans. Don’t prove their joke by missing the nuance yourself.
Turns out that prejudice is harmful even if it isn’t negative, or even about you in particular.
At least, that’s what we’ve been saying about racial prejudice for a long time. Dunno when we forgot about that.
Yeah, I hate this idea that suddenly it’s okay to judge people as a group of millions if the “conditions are right”. That opens a door we should want to keep closed
It’s still pretty shitty to judge an entire population and paint them with one generalized brush, no matter how you frame it. You assume my annoyance is personal but it’s not.
Well, I’m an American and I thought it was funny.
Maybe if the tone were right I’d agree but I read it as angry snark, not as a joke
Not many on lemmy can though.
Proving the point. As an American, let me just say: chill.
As a world citizen I say: people in every country are every given attribute and we don’t need to pretend anyone is inferior to others, as op and people like them always seem eager to do.