• Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    We’re discussing

    We’re still directly talking about

    the society we’re discussing

    It’s just exhausting how you keep saying this. No, we’re not. We’re trying to discuss historical facts and the glossing over of them, but you keep trying to pivot the discussion to a “racism bad, yes or no?” conversation.

    Nuance is not racism. Last time I’ll say it.

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      1 year ago

      Declaring “the civil war wasn’t about slavery,” verbatim, in any context, is not nuance - it is a lie. It is an indefensible oversimplification at best, and racist garbage which you have acknowledged as racist garbage at worst.

      The thread is about some asshole telling this and other lies. It is that worst-case racist garbage.

      The conversation you barged into involves some dingus who was trying to eke technicalities about those lies, as if anyone involved is unfamiliar with the premise being viciously misrepresented through those lies.

      Your contribution has been to escalate and deny and make this personal, while declaring that you’re only carrying a torch for nuuuaaance, whilst struggling with dead simple context and being insufferably smug about how badly you missed it.

      Fuck off and good riddance.