Imagine thinking that the word “activist” is a bad thing and constantly using that like it’s an insult.
Imagine having vile and disgusting views about people of another race collectively, sharing copy-and-pasted racist views and statistics that are easily disproven with sources and citations from actual scholarly, academic, demographic, and statistical data...yet still somehow thinking that you’re NOT a racist just because you have a mandingo fetish.
Imagine thinking that it’s weird to have a “big fat chip on your shoulder” in a society where you are constantly minimized, blocked, and targeted by violent systemic and institutional racism, and then told it’s your fault because those who don’t experience it think it mustn’t be real simply because it doesn’t impact them.
Imaging believing that an entire other race of people is fatherless, inherently criminal, inherently violent, socially low, lazy layabouts, even having false statistics about them on hand, yet still being desperate for their dick, and not seeing the dissonance there.
Imagine being of a completely difference race, and in some cases from a completely different country, and trying to tell Black people, whose experiences could not be further from your own, that their lived experiences are invalid and that only your assessment (powered by statistics and views that were easily disproven) is fact. Once again demonstrating privilege in believing that you can validate or qualify their experiences although you have never and could never experience life from their lens.
Imagine having your points consistently disproven by actual data and the lived experiences of others, and just pivoting to “you’re boring, “you’re wrong”, “that’s not valid”, “nope, not true”, “omg, let’s just move on” even though it’s YOUR points that have been disproven with actual sourced and cited data.
Imagine typing horrible and vile things about others, then, when called out, pivoting to, “OMG, you’re attacking me, you’re harassing me” in a move that echoes so many encounters from the real world, like the Central Park jogger or the more recent incident with Keyon Harrold and the “Soho Karen”.
Imagine being more upset at the people defending against these kind of disgusting and disproven generalizations, then you are at the people making the generalizations. More upset because you have to scroll through a session of accountability then you are at the people who caused the moment by inserting their input into a conversation that didn’t concern them and then descending into racism. Perhaps because you believe the same thing they do and think the defense is moot.
Imagine having been given warnings by the moderation and admin as proof that your behavior is unacceptable, and barely escaping being banned, and still somehow thinking you’re right.
If, nothing else, the past few pages have been an valuable case study in racism (the ignorance, conditioning, & lack of intelligence that powers it) fetishism and the cognitive dissonances of it, and privilege (the bold and aggressive ways it encourages those with it to use it to silence and invalidate others who trigger them and make them uncomfortable). We also get to see how racists manipulate the mechanism, stopping just short of the things necessary to be blatant hatespeech, thus avoiding full prosecution.
At this point, I think all that needs to be said has been said. HOWEVER, I hope that the non-racist people in the thread are taking notes on how these things play out, so they can recognize it, and do the work of confronting it in their real life. It’s more than just negativity. It’s conditioning, ignorance, privilege, it’s blind or intentionally looks away, it tries to make the victim look like the bad guy, and it’s real.
Again, kudos to the moderators/admin who have allowed these discussion to take place instead of just closing the thread or deleting things, and done what they can do within the rules. It can be disruptive, but it was a necessary disruption.