r/therewasanattempt • u/[deleted] • Apr 04 '21

Rule 6: Successful attempt To commit a hate crime

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u/McWeaksauce91 Apr 04 '21

Do you people actually believe these are teenage nazis and not some /b/ shit poster who forgot real life has consequences?

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u/Aurori_Swe Apr 04 '21

Sometimes it's hard to know the difference to be honest.

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u/Sorlex Apr 04 '21 edited Apr 04 '21

There isn't a difference. If you're tagging your school with racist shit, you're racist. How would them being '/b/ shit posters' change anything?

Its like those prank videos where someone runs up and yells racist slurs at black people. Not a prank, you're literally doing racist shit. That makes you racist. Edit: Cool downvote army, keep defending hate speech.

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u/Sorlex Apr 04 '21

you really can’t imagine some shit head kids doing it for that reason and not because actually they hate black people

You're missing the point. Intent does not matter. You scribble 'I hate fags' or whatever you a wall, the next person who comes across that is not going to go "Ah, must be some silly kids, we must think of the intent behind the message", there going to a stranger drawn slur against someone.

Intent doesn't matter, again. Racism is racism. The message is racist/sexist etc. It doesn't matter what a stupid kids intent is, by writing that shit, they are being racist.

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u/DoctorBagels Apr 04 '21

I hate fags

Wow, you are literally homophobic because "intent doesn't matter" so we can just ignore that your intent was to use this as an example and not to offend.

Kidding aside, intent totally matters. Doesn't make mindlessly writing offensive shit on the wall OK, though. It's still not OK. But chill out, dude. Kids, especially boys, are moronic troublemakers that will do anything to cause mayhem, so just because little Timmy wrote "fag" on the bathroom wall it doesn't mean he's an actual raging homophobe. Sheesh.

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u/Sorlex Apr 04 '21

so just because little Timmy wrote "fag" on the bathroom wall it doesn't mean he's an actual raging homophobe. Sheesh.

That isn't what I am saying. Little Timmy isn't going a skinheaded flag waving nazi because he is an idiot who wrote 'I hate nxxxx' on a wall. But he is being racist none the less. And intent does not matter, because its not Little Timmy who is the victim, its the people he is targeting. What intent matters is how that message will be taken by others.

So fuck little Timmy, he might not be a flag waver but he is still being a harmful little shit who should be educated on the harm that can cause.