2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Black Millennials: "Hillary...invested in violence against Black bodies." [View all]Prism
(5,815 posts)And to be honest, it's not given non-Jews to accept an apology and declare everyone should move on now. That's just Racism 101.
I'm not invested. And I haven't said a single word about any of it until here. But I'll say this.
If someone had displayed that bigotry towards her community, she and her friends would spend the next 6-12 months bringing it up at every opportunity. It would not be acceptable. It would be Exhibit A in racism on this board.
Instead, suddenly everyone got very chill about racist sentiment, and sometimes, "Things are said in the heat of the moment!" and "Won't somebody please think of the context?!"
LOL. C'mon, man. That would never ever ever ever ever fly if those words had been directed at the AA community here. Ever.
Which teaches a lesson really. Racism online isn't so big a deal, as long as we like the person being racist. But if we don't like the person being racist, well, worst thing ever!
It dilutes a serious issue and betrays that rather than earnestness, people are simply playing games with racial politics.
But hey, we're talking about a clique of people who thought homophobia was just grand for years and never ever admitted error or apologized for it. So I don't expect them to take anti-semitism seriously either.
Bigotry is awesome for them, but woe onto anyone else.
The racial well has been poisoned here, and I think it's by design. And it is a deeply bigoted little clique that managed it. So that bigotry accidentally saw the light of day. Oops!
Would you call people decrying a white male racist a lynch mob? No, you wouldn't. You're part of the problem for using that kind of charged language to defend and apologize for bigotry. The color of a person's skin does not immunize them from the hatred and bigotry they put forth in the world.
So stop being quite so ok with it, yeah?