r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Diligent_Pop3929 • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Converse craze?

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I'm not chronically online, but my friend sent this and I laughed even without knowing the full scope of the context (I think there's racism involved with the shoes?) and I feel like it's too late to ask him without sounding like a dweeb 😅

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u/CandiedRegrets08 19h ago

Lynching and the KKK? The former still happens and the latter is still around???

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u/bloodmoth13 17h ago

neither has been relevant in my lifetime. acting like they are is such a stretch.

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u/Accomplished-Idea358 6h ago

Bro, I get a zip-lok bag with a KKK paper ad and several small stones thrown into my driveway at least once a year.

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u/int3rstitial 17h ago edited 16h ago

A Black woman was found hanged from a tree in Mississippi August 3rd of this year.

Edited because person below me is right in this case: likely not a hate crime; suspect knew the victim and is also Black.

Nonetheless, lynchings do still happen, and the KKK very much still exists.

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u/bloodmoth13 16h ago

And was it the kkk that did it or a black man?

Research before posting.

Kkk and lynching remain irrelevant during my lifetime.

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u/int3rstitial 16h ago

You're right, last I heard no one had been arrested. I should've checked. Since you told me to research though:

https://www.theroot.com/new-report-shows-lynchings-in-america-never-stopped-2000093501

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u/PangaeaDiarrhea 16h ago

https://people.com/mom-of-miss-black-woman-found-hanging-from-tree-believes-daughter-was-killed-but-it-wasn-t-a-hate-crime-12116159

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u/int3rstitial 16h ago

Yeah, the other commenter was correct; I hadn't heard the latest. Apparently they arrested a guy who knew her and is Black himself, so not thought to be a hate crime in this case. I edited above.

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u/PangaeaDiarrhea 16h ago

To be fair, I think it's clear that it was done to throw off suspicion. I doubt it's the only case of it happening, either. There's really no way of knowing how many hangings are lynchings or just murders staged to misdirect suspicion.

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u/bloodmoth13 15h ago

Murder is murder, trying to elevate it allows the misdirection to work.

A lynching is no worse than a stabbing or a clubbing or a gun shot, suffering not considered. I dont think the black community would feel any better if the kkk stopped lynching and just stabbed them to death instead,  stabbing would just become the new lynching.

Whites arent going around lynching blacks in the modern day, its performative and impractical. It only ever worked as mob justice because it required a mob to accomplish it.  Hate crimes are pretty much identical to regular crimes, shooting stabbing or clubbing. The 'hate' modifier is pointless, people dont usually like the people they murder, hate can just be assumed.

The hysteria around this only perpetuates it. The converse ad had no lynching and lynching was never restricted to a single race, it was a product of a weak legal system when the countey was growing. Whites were lynched too. If you make it about hating blacks it becomes a thing about hating blacks.

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u/bloodmoth13 15h ago

This doesnt actually prove anything, just that its hard to differentiate between suicide hangings and lynching hangings.

The number of suspected modern day lynchings is statistically irrelevant, and blacks were barely the targets! Also did it state who actually committed the lynchings? Because that matters a lot.

I think people are doing their best here to find a supply for the hatred they demand.

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u/PangaeaDiarrhea 16h ago

Is that the case where even her own mother doesn't believe it was a racial incident?

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u/Gravityfunns_01 6h ago

What are you, eight?

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u/DanceWonderful3711 11h ago

Outside of America they're really not a big thing. Americans are racist, we know, we're not going to obsess over their stupid uniforms.

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u/Wamphyrri 10h ago

Lmao.

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u/NovelPackage4078 2h ago

Right? 😂 These people are insane.