• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Yes that’s unsurprising and yes he’s probably a bad person, but also I feel the need to say that’s a really shitty thing to do to him. Even shitty people deserve to not be targeted by racist remarks.

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      21 days ago

      Kind of but let’s say:

      Someone offered you to fight a bear for $5k.

      He assures you the bear is safe.

      People around you tell you it’s not, and don’t be an idiot.

      Is it your fault if you chose to take the con man’s offer and fight the bear or the con man’s fault?

      I started thinking about this after the titanic submarine disaster. Like, how is that not like a Darwin Award?

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        20 days ago

        The difference is that racists are not bears. They’re people behaving poorly. I think this is better compared to a thief getting robbed by his partner in crime. Is he a fool? Yes. Is he a bad person? Yes. Can I blame his partner in crime for this? Also yes. In both cases it’s an idiot and a bad person walking into a position that another person behaved poorly towards them.