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az226[dead post] ◴[] No.41912217[source]
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llamaimperative ◴[] No.41913989[source]
It’s wild the type of contortions a person can fold themselves into instead of saying, “yeah this was meant to fuck people out of their rights.”

There should be no test at all, rushing was not the problem, and the likelihood of prejudice was the entire point.

Because it was made by racists. Who were trying to achieve racist goals.

Much clearer this way.

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1. JohnMakin ◴[] No.41915376[source]
> It’s wild the type of contortions a person can fold themselves into instead of saying, “yeah this was meant to fuck people out of their rights.”

I'm mixed race from a family that is predominantly made up of PoC - these conversations used to infuriate me, now they just fascinate me. To me, trying to understand what motivates such lines of thinking is really important. Is it denial, naivete, rationalization, or is it something more insidious? I can never tell. Particularly the viewpoint, which is surprisingly popular amongst supposedly educated people, that racism doesn't really exist anymore/isn't a big deal anymore, which at least from my perspective, seems to fuel these types of comments. To the GP comment, I'm not trying to tear you down, I'm actually quite interested in what people commenting stuff like this have to say, because I truly cannot understand.