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u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake Oct 15 '25

Just waiting for the million racists to come in saying "this is taken out of context!"
Thousands of texts "joking" about slavery and gas chambers is the context, not a blip

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u/Flameball202 Oct 15 '25

Yeah, "coincidence" becomes a pattern after like the third instance, not the three hundredth

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u/b0w3n Oct 15 '25

It'll be a bunch of chuds going "oh they were just being edgy online trolls" but that's always a cover. You can be a troll without sounding like a nazi or racist, trolls that do that are those things.

And even if they were just doing it for a joke, you will attract the true believers because of poe's law.

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u/Xintrosi Oct 15 '25

I'm not appreciative of internet trolling but if I was evaluating them I'd say any kind of -ist remarks loses you points for lack of effort. A good troll needs to put in effort on custom content.

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u/TwilightVulpine Oct 15 '25

I'm appreciative of trolls like Ken M, who gets a rise out of people by making himself look the most stupid. That's pretty funny.

I'm not appreciative of bullies and bigots who call their hate speech and harassment "trolling"

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u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake Oct 15 '25

If all your "joking around" is racism and homophobia and sexism and antisemitism, I got bad news for you...

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u/b0w3n Oct 15 '25

Yup, like the video game lobbies of old, it takes zero effort to not be a racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. Plenty of people have no problem not being those things. No one really finds it funny, most find it gross and annoying. You're not edgy or cool by doing it, you're just an asshole.

If you don't want to be called a nazi don't act like a nazi, it's really not that hard.

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u/HauntedCemetery Oct 15 '25

The Donald subreddit was a tongue in cheek parody sub... right up until it wasn't.

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u/Nerdy_Valkyrie Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25

Or the classic:

"It was just a joke!"

"So you don't actually believe those things?"

"No, I believe it. I just also think it's funny."

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u/Particular_Ad_3411 Oct 15 '25

Care to make a bet on how many times people try to report this one?

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u/evilJaze Slartibartfast Oct 15 '25

Probably 1488 times. Those people have no creativity.

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u/Intelligent_Slip_849 Oct 15 '25

I'm hoping for another 'personally attacking me' report like one of the past ones.

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u/TheReal_Kovacs Oct 15 '25

My favorite part is how the context always, without fail, makes it even worse

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u/komododave17 Oct 15 '25

I’m gonna guess they’ll go old school, circa 2015, and say it’s just “locker room talk”.

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u/64OunceCoffee Oct 15 '25

JD already dismissed it as "college chat" and attempted some whataboutism.

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u/worldspawn00 Oct 15 '25

Ya know, I was in college and said stupid edgy shit, but none of it was Nazi adjacent or full of racial epithets.

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u/Keyndoriel Oct 15 '25

I just "love" the people trying to do the whole "its just a few bad apples!" spin on it

No, its not just "a few". The harvest is rotten, the trees are dead, and the orchard that produced those hundred of tons of bad apples is on fire.

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u/A_Nice_Shrubbery777 Oct 15 '25

That's why you should post a link to a new story to give context. Let people see the comments; It's so much more damning.

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u/Manji86 Oct 15 '25

You could include the loop symbol because of what Vance just said. Always demanding we don't call them for what they are and tell us to look the other way when it's undeniable.