• Todd Bonzalez
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        2 months ago

        I don’t want it gone because I personally dislike seeing it, I want it gone because I think it encourages people to approach every story with inappropriate bias.

        Blocking it disarms me in my fight to see it gone.

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          2 months ago

          I appreciate your stance, but I personally appreciate its silence more.

  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    My theory is this.

    A pair of Republican strategist are sitting around the outside and they started getting all racist about black people, as Republicans do, and their minds wander to Haitians.

    Now try as they might they just can’t think of anything really racist they can say about Haitians because, well their world view is limited, and all they can think up are things they can’t say in public about black people.

    Republican operative 1 things to himself, well Haitian kind of rhymes with Asian and reaches deep into the racist cracker barrel, and thinks of the old racist stereotype of Asians eating pets.

    Republican operative 1 talks to Republican operative 2 and floats the idea of doing a racist Patrick Star, a small discussion of of their base and American “independents” would be dumb enough fall for something so obviously appropriated racism, and the answer was yes.

    Thus a Republican strategy/lie was formed.