For extra context, Myron Gaines is a Black extreme far-right racist. He’s straight-up Uncle Ruckus from The Boondocks. Same with the Hodge Twins. They follow Nazis, think Hitler was right, and straight-up hate their own people as much as these white supremacist neo-Nazis do. Sometimes they’re even in group chats with them.
When Myron was in a racist “whites-only space,” a racist white guy called him the n-word and a bunch of other racial slurs. Me personally, I don’t feel bad for Myron, the Hodge Twins, or people like them. For one, why are you there? They are racist. They hate you for the color of your skin. Do you not think they hate you too?
I’m sorry, but I don’t feel bad for them. And yeah, I think they deserve it for a few reasons. This is not a case of “victim blaming.” They, of their own adult free will, know how these guys think, know their opinions, and still willingly go into their spaces, then get upset when one of the racists calls them a racial slur? I’m sorry, but you deserve it — especially when they make it clear they don’t want you around.
And this goes for anyone, really. If someone repeatedly gives you their ass to kiss, tells you they wouldn’t piss on you if you were caught on fire, wouldn’t care if you died, and you still choose to be around that person and force yourself into their life, then if they verbally abuse you, I’m sorry, but yeah, you deserve it.
This isn’t a case of an abusive relationship where the abuser tries to force you to be around them — that’s different. Honestly, I’ll go as far as to say the same thing about these misogynistic female red-pill figures like Pearl. If she goes into a red-pill space and all the guys are misogynistic toward her, etc., I don’t feel bad because WHY ARE YOU CHOOSING TO BE THERE?
I’m not saying she should get physically assaulted, nor am I saying Myron should get physically assaulted or worse. I am saying that if they get verbally attacked or called slurs, it’s very hard for me to feel sympathy when you, of your own adult mind and free will, choose to be around people you know hate you for simply existing.
And this goes for anyone, really. Why be around someone you know hates you? And why should we feel sympathy? At a certain point, it becomes a “fuck around and find out” moment.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
It sounds like they are bad people but I don’t think that makes it okay to call them racial slurs. If a black person is an asshole, I’ll call them an asshole but I won’t call them a slur. I won’t make the insult be about their race or sexual orientation or anything of that sort.
I sort of agree, though, that if they freely choose to be around racists, they shouldn’t be surprised when they’re exposed to racism