• Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 years ago

      Woah there bud, tone down the racism towards gratches a little bit. They’re people too you know and they just want rights.

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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        3 years ago

        Fuck you, asshole!

        Gratches took jobs from my family! It was hard earned money we hoped to get by not working hard until they came.

  • blipcast@lemmy.world
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    3 years ago

    The alt-text panel hints at this, but the problem with making up a fake group everyone can hate is that racists and bigots will stretch the definition to include whatever they want.

    We’ve seen it with “antisemitism” being redefined to include any criticism of Israel, and before that “pedophilia” being redefined to include drag queens and parents supporting their trans children. For that reason, hatred like this should not be encouraged, even if it’s imaginary.

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      3 years ago

      Racism is usually “my race is the best,” not “that particular race sucks.” Another race wouldn’t change anything.

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        3 years ago

        Do you have any examples of this? Because my experience is the opposite. It’s the perception that your group is normal, the “default”, and tearing down all of these other groups using phrases exactly like the ones in the comic.