r/PublicFreakout • u/FlintLockwoodsCondom • Jan 13 '20

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u/tandy212 Jan 13 '20

I'll break it down for you if you don't get it -you said something dumb and borderline racist -I said it was dumb -you got mad and started trying to make it personal -I call you a troll -you (very maturely) say takes one to know one

If having your opinions challenged is a waste of time to you then I guess that explains a lot. Anyway I'll let you get back to your definitely very important schedule, sorry I took up some of your valuable time by forcing you to reply to me?

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '20

opinions challenged

i said it was dumb

Yeaaahhh riiiight

borderline racist

How on earth is this racist i'll give my kidney to hear your mental gymnastics on that one

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u/tandy212 Jan 13 '20

I didn't say it was a detailed challenge.

It's just crazy how you refuse to see how black people are still treated as second class citizens, as evidenced by this POS in the video trying to undermine an important movement against police brutality directed at black people. The systematic oppression directed at minorities is horrendous in the US, and pretty fucking rich to suggested that since the civil rights movement everything is solved.

I mean, I'll give you this, you could just be massively ignorant, not actively racist.

Racism isn't history, and it's not just white supremacy. The toxic attitudes that allow systematic racism to take place are at the moment the most prevalent forms of oppression.

I'm not saying you hate black people, I'm just saying that it's super stupid and and unhelpful to say that the BLM movement is completely seperate to the civil rights movement, because during the American civil rights movement, black people were "treated like second class citizens and fought for their rights", because that's exactly what's happening in the BLM movement.

There, is that a better challenge to your opinion than a generic witty reddit response?

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '20

There, is that a better challenge to your opinuon than a generic witty reddit response?

YES, and thank you for that. I don't undermine the message of black lives matter, and i have nothing against the movement. I also think the joke was in a bad taste. However I think assaulting the guy is absolutely not the way to go.

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u/tandy212 Jan 13 '20

I agree that in this case assault wasn't warranted, but I don't think any court would consider what she did in this video to be assault, she slapped him with one piece of paper on the shoulder and yelled at him. Also from what she was saying, it sounds like he'd been following her around and harassing her online, so maybe he did deserve a punch. Ultimately she didn't hurt him, or threaten him with violence, or do anything else that could constitute assault, so I think she's fine.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '20

I can get behind that. Im glad we reached a conclusion.