• IWantToFuckSpez
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    ”But he’s always so nice to me and my friends and family, who are exclusively white, he’s never racist around them.”

    • "no" bananaOP
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      Damn, that’s totally what she’d say. Excluding the whiteness part. She hasn’t reflected on that.

      • Franklin's Beard
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        That’s my mom. She doesn’t really think about stuff like that at all. I still get bullied by my dad whenever I date black people or any POC and I’m well into my 20’s.

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          At least you know which shirt to give to your dad next Christmas

        • My dad had an underlying hate towards others when I was little but it mostly sizzled out by the time Obama was president (2008). 2024 it’s a kerosene fire. Oddly when I was younger he went on a rant about Jews, yet now he seems fine with Jewish people and just hates everyone else.

          Racism is back with a vengeance and media/news is promoting it.

  • @Mago@lemmy.world
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    611 year ago

    If these people are in your social circle it says more about you than “average” straight people.

    • @xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com
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      381 year ago

      Neither did I. I may still not understand it. But I googled salon article and found a site with that name that publishes progressive news and opinions. So I guess they are saying a lot of couples are opposite in opinion on these things. They might be joking about the one spouse being oblivious to their partners racism or having double standards or something.

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        They might be joking about the one spouse being oblivious to their partners racism or having double standards or something.

        Pretty much. I personally find it funny because I know one of these couples. It’s obviously not 1/3, but they do exist.

    • @XEAL@lemm.ee
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      I think the point is that she’s a nice person in general and he’s a very racist POS.

      • Jeena
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        Hm, ok, I would have never guessed it from her speech bubble.

      • fmstrat
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        91 year ago

        It’s that they both are, he just wears it on his sle… Shirt.

        • @explodicle@local106.com
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          101 year ago

          She’s just more subtle. She supports BLM in spirit but agrees that the roads need to be clear for health and safety reasons.

    • @niktemadur@lemmy.world
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      It’s funny because it’s soooo true!
      In fact in MY suburbs, you see it in FIVE out of every FOUR hetero couples! Now waddaya think of that, huh?

  • @fosstulate@iusearchlinux.fyi
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    That’s not the look of a bigot, it’s the look of a man who’s fed up with low-rent posturing clickbait. The look of someone who got a Salon article entitled What your household’s toothpaste preferences say about White Fragility™ that he knows will be paygated or cookienoticed after two seconds’ scrolling.

  • @Godric@lemmy.world
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    For some reason I’m reminded of a local house that flies both the Confederate and Pride flags.

    They aren’t mutually exclusive flags, so I have to wonder if it is one opinion, or many.

    • "no" bananaOP
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      Could also be someone flying the flags because they think it’s a funny thing to do, entirely unrelated to the political statement.

      Which I guess is a political statement in itself.

          • tygerprints
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            I’m gay and I’ve lived in SLC for almost 65 years, and let me tell you - gay people are among the MOST bigoted. They think they are very accepting, but the truth is, most of them reject anyone who doesn’t fit their idea about what a gay male should be. If you look like a twink or you aren’t a certain way, you get shunned here completely. It’s really nasty to see.

            But, the truth is, all human beings are bigoted. We have to be, we’re wired up that way. We are wired to want to only hang out with certain people and reject others, and see other people as inferior in almost every situation. It’s sort of a survival mechanism from primitive days, and it’s part of who we are as a species.

          • Wugmeister
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            101 year ago

            I used to work with a hispanic gay trump supporter who was also an evangelical Christian.

      • @KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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        Most people were not very accepting of “different” people back then, but maybe it was just not talked about. There were a ton of “confirmed bachelors” and plenty of women had “roommates”.

        People in the North and South were not different. The North had a ton of racists who didn’t want to fight and die for “colored people”. There was a huge riot in NYC of people who didn’t want to be drafted. They killed black people they found for no reason.

        • @Donebrach@lemmy.world
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          I think the Union’s stake in the civil war was more about federal supremacy over the United States (which obviously goes without question in a federal system). Ending slavery was just a function of that goal. I say this as someone who grew up in the southwest and is wholly committed to the authority of the federal government over individual states because that is obviously the system outlined in the constitution.

          Of course “The North” was just as racist and still is just as shitty and racist as every other part of this country.

          P.S. “The South” can suck it as a name, I propose a better title for former confederate states: The Losers (since it seems a certain demographic therein needs reminding).

          • @psud@lemmy.world
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            Sure, the North wanted consolidation. Of course the only reason the south seceded was because the federation said no more slaves

            Many of the people in the North were as racist as the South, but the government was less so

        • @Thoth19@lemmy.world
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          A huge part of that riot was the Irish who were fresh off the boat from the potato famine and we’re not pleased that they had escaped one hell and we’re going to be drafted to a war they didn’t care about.