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Yeah everyone’s a racist when you’re not smart enough to understand someone.

• IshKebab 3y ago
  He's not racist because I don't understand him. He's racist because he thinks black people are genetically uncivilised and his evidence for that is that poor black people looted after Katrina and sub-saharan Africans didn't develop writing and two story buildings. Both of those appear to be roughly true, but the racist thing is that he's jumped to "must be because they're black", rather than the much more obvious explanations: it's poor people that loot, not black people; they just happen to coincide in America. And there are a gazillion variables that are more likely to have affected the development of Africa than genetics. Geography, population density, isolation by the Sahara, luck. Clearly very smart. Still racist.
  • throwaway2990 3y ago
    ”it's poor people that loot” This always seems to be the defence despite is not being true. Poor white people evacuated and helped who they could. Poor black people waited to be helped, looted, murdered, and played victims. It’s amazing that facts are now racist. We can’t identify a problem and try fix it. We just stand back and say “no that’s racist”.
    • IshKebab 3y ago
      Even if that were true (it appears it is not [0]), do you not understand that there are dozens of non-genetic differences between black people and white people that could easily explain it? For example it's well known that black people are less likely to trust the authorities for very good reason. It's not racist to state the facts; it's racist to jump from the facts to "must be black genetics" with no evidence. [0] https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/16/hurricane-katrina-new-orleans-looting-violence-misleading-reports https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/16/hurricane-ka...