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it's just pure racism at this point (media.piefed.zip)
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[–] 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Do you have any earthly idea how many of those "people" are bots now? Let yourself get worked-up by engagement-bait if you insist, but no-one-else is obligated to check-out places that are well-known for being places one goes to piss-off others or find something to get pissed-off about. Your "hobby" of engaging with and spreading it without substantiation vs reality doesn't make you "more aware", it just makes you part of the problem.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Okay then don't downplay existing racism because you successfully avoid it. That's helping no one end racism.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    You're literally promoting specific fan-art, spreading it far beyond what it ever would have reached otherwise, in your efforts to "end" racism. If anyone's watering down existing racism, its you and people who act as you do.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    How am promoting and spreading it?

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago

    Had you seen it before this post? I hadn't. Same likely applies to a bunch of people who think its(the white girl part) awesome(better than the original - I am NOT of such opinion) and can't wait to share it with their friends. Making it part of rage-bait just amplifies the Streisand Effect.

    If "art"upsets you so much, the thing to do is promote good art instead, or do literally anything else with your day. Maybe discuss the most, or any of, recent shootings of black teenagers by cops over a water bottle or panty-hose or some other stand-in we all know amounts to Cop+"excuse"+minority=media trying to spin it and thousands of "white people suck" memes.

    There are so many of those memes and events that are true and verified from end-to-end and back that anyone promoting the made-up gibberish like this one should be called-out for what they are actually doing - intentionally distracting others and discrediting the people who really care.

    "Such and such minority and anyone who really cares is just sooo upset that verifying things is an un-due burden" has no place on the internet - it paints them as dumb, ignorant, likely corrupt, and serves only to drive-away anyone who can be driven-away.

    To get to the point where Counter-Revolutionaries are the only ones left to purge, over 90% of the people who make revolutions happen according to all the revolutions that reached that point, you first need their help with the revolution.

    If you want to avoid a spot next to me on the wall, maybe don't promote the cults of personality that substitute for ideals once they get the chance. Skin color or the right in-group won't save you then.

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