Comment on Anon ends racism

stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• olutukko@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  my ended by me growing up. in my country small towns and villages had pretty much no foreigners when I was child so racism was pretty normal. mostly just really offensive jokes and racial slurs with no though give to them. so it was pretty easy for all that shit catch in to you. when I grew up a bit and started hangik out in the closest city I quickly stopped all of that shit. I was never racist by heart or hateful towards minorities but all that joking and slurring was so normalized that I didn’t really give it a thought until I actually started thinking independently.

  I feel sad towards some of the people I used to know who are now young adults and still live there doing the same bullshit and being actually racists

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    That is what it was like in the UK in the 1950s and 1960s. Unless you lived in one of the major cities,which was like four cities at the time, you didn’t really see anyone who wasn’t Caucasian.

    It wasn’t racism, it was ignorance.

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    • sparkle@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Racism doesn’t have to be malicious. It can be caused by ignorance

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• Retrograde@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Have one of those quesadillas though and you’ll be even more not racist

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  • Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    But not more than one, unless you want to do the Gandhi underflow.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I did have one once. Unfortunately I didn’t measure my pre and post racism levels so I’m not sure if it helped or not. Also it was made by a large overweight man so perhaps it didn’t have the full effect.

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• ghen@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I was never racist but i sure was bigoted. It took introspection, which is hard

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  • tkk13909@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    You know what else is hard?

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    • LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      My mom!

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      • Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Image

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    • ghen@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Living a life of anger and fear?

      Or is this a penis joke 🤣

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      • tkk13909@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Making a joke about anon’s reaction to the video

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    • AfroMustache@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      My dick when I see a latina mom

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• bastonia@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Mine started by living and going to school with them. How odd.

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  • Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Dude school is rough. By the time I got out I was racist af. Took a long time to work through that shit.

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I had friends growing up from various races, my wife is from another race, and I work with other races. I still catch myself sometimes not treating people equally. It’s really easy to prefer someone that looks like me over someone who doesn’t.

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  • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    “I can’t be racist, some of my friends are black!”

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Yeah, that’s apparently the prevailing opinion, hence why I wrote the last two sentences.

      Don’t assume you’re “not racist” just because you treat some people well. It’s really easy to treat people differently just based on appearances, so watch yourselves.

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      • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Sorry maybe I misinterpreted your comment. Treating someone differently just because they don’t look like you just sounds pretty strange to me…

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