Comment on Donald Trump just shared an AI video to Truth Social depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys
ExistingConsumingSpace@midwest.social 16 hours ago
This is not shocking or surprising. Trump represents white America, and this is pure, unadulterated, white America. The internet has allowed white Americans to be their complete shit selves in relative anonymity to the point that they now realize the majority of their brethren are bathing in the same fecal pools, so that many are emboldened to go mask off. Ask any person of color what their experience is online, and they’ll tell you this is typical white behavior, including white women (we see you Stacey).
slacktoid@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
To add to your point. So something I found interesting was about 20 years ago when I was a wee young lad, I was curious about racism, cause it seemed so alien to me how can you hate someone just cause of some physical attributes. I found myself in some dark corner of the internet where people were talking some vile shit about black and brown people, and it broke my brain, I think this was even before reddit or 4chan. Then couple of years back a friend of mine was talking about the shit people say on Twitter now, and I was not phased one bit, cause I had already heard it 20 years ago. That space has always been there where people go mask off, it’s just grown to a lot more spaces off late. Some people need to touch grass, maybe even smoke it.
ExistingConsumingSpace@midwest.social 13 hours ago
Agreed, it definitely has always been there. I’m from a diverse family that covers all races, as well as many ethnicities and countries of origin. Even within my family, I’ve experienced racism, colorism, etc, and it was always baffling to me growing up. I think the internet has allowed the ghouls to finally feel comfortable taking their mask off in public. If we could stop that hate, especially from majority groups (regionally dependant), then we could truly push for societies that lift us all up.
slacktoid@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
Agreed! That is wild but yeah that makes sense all races have that dog in em lol. Especially ones that have experienced colonialism I feel. The Internet for real has done that. I dunno why people felt like they have to say slurs, but like I also feel like some people don’t really care to look beyond the surface and are very as long as it doesn’t affect me I dont care. Which truly pisses me off. General apathy just generally pisses me off. Like you can say use stats to say x group of people do more crime and end there or look into the underlying factors that lead to that and its just so lazy and uncurious.