▲ 1157 ▼ Trump v. Greenland (lemmy.ml) submitted 6 months ago by kingshrubb@lemmy.ml to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world 135 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (1 child) And another "racism is okay if it's against the people I don't like" type Make fun all you want, you know what you are permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago (1 child) Taking someone else's yogurt out of the fridge and murder are both wrong, but I'm far more concerned about the addressing the latter than the former. It doesn't say that it's right or okay, just silly to compare the two as if they're the same. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 point 6 months ago* Yes, you're right, one thing is worse than the other, but they're still the same thing Racism is racism. You can't say you want racism to stop by making racist remarks. If you really want discrimination to stop, be it for race, color, gender, sex, preferences, whatever, then just stop being racist first. Stop it all. You can't just be racist to other and say "well I'm justified, because your kind has treated me worse", because like that it'll never stop permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago (1 child) Taking someone else's yogurt out of the fridge and murder are both wrong, but I'm far more concerned about the addressing the latter than the former. It doesn't say that it's right or okay, just silly to compare the two as if they're the same. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 point 6 months ago* Yes, you're right, one thing is worse than the other, but they're still the same thing Racism is racism. You can't say you want racism to stop by making racist remarks. If you really want discrimination to stop, be it for race, color, gender, sex, preferences, whatever, then just stop being racist first. Stop it all. You can't just be racist to other and say "well I'm justified, because your kind has treated me worse", because like that it'll never stop permalink fedilink source parent
[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 point 6 months ago* Yes, you're right, one thing is worse than the other, but they're still the same thing Racism is racism. You can't say you want racism to stop by making racist remarks. If you really want discrimination to stop, be it for race, color, gender, sex, preferences, whatever, then just stop being racist first. Stop it all. You can't just be racist to other and say "well I'm justified, because your kind has treated me worse", because like that it'll never stop permalink fedilink source parent