Group of black teens attacks a guy. Minor injuries. What’s the reddit thread filled with?

“carry a gun” “cops on every corner” “animals”

what gets downvoted? me mentioning generational poverty.

death to the whites.

Edit: came back, didn’t think this would blow up the way it did, but it has been hilarious how many bad takes are from people with an @ in their username. This hilarity is why i love HexBear.

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  • Mokey [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    27·
    9 months ago

    I think honestly many of the people who are throwing the insults the most are just feeling white guilt. They’re compensating for the privilege they feel. In my opinion, it’s not useful to be like that and is ironically pretty “white.” My opinion.

    I think there is a place for it especially for people who aren’t white and are under the boot of the white, colonial, capitalist system but I dont think using it as the main tool of expressing your anti-colonial and anti-racist sentiment is a good idea.

    I think it’s fine to ask questions, just don’t respond to hostility with hostility and try to be the bigger person when someone wants to argue.

    The rudeness is a knee jerk reaction to the type of people we get coming here with bad intentions.

    Pigpoopballs is an old meme that we’ve beaten to death, I’m glad you got something out of it. The old chapo subreddit got a trump guy to post his dick once which is funny.

    • pastalicious [he/him, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
      16·
      9 months ago

      I think mayocide and self hating whiteness are a very small overall part of hexbear posting. it’s inevitable to see more of it in a thread like this when people from across the lemmyverse are gut reacting to some real tepid “death to white people” shit posting and trying to report it like they’re on Reddit where the Admins will just coup any mod who doesn’t capitulate to their “rules based order”.

      And the rudeness honestly has some real world utility here. We aren’t like and don’t aspire to be like Reddit where horrible evil can be defended and advocated for as long as you strike the right respectful tone, and if we can sus out and turn away people who value tone above material reality that’s useful. It isn’t the conscious reason for the way we are but it does play a small role.

    • Wakmrow [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      9 months ago

      I don’t have white guilt I hate the concept of whiteness. I don’t like being perceived as white and all the privilege that comes with it but I don’t feel guilty about it. I didn’t choose to be “white”.

      I think it’s important. I have come to a conclusion that is internally consistent to me and not self loathing. Like the patriarchy, I can hate the power structure even if it benefits me without hating who I am.

    • Luminocta @lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      Thanks,

      Trying not to be hostile… Although obviously people who get a rise out of it do try hard, to make someone react that way…

      Lemmy is a confusing place sometimes.