• primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus
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    2 months ago

    ‘300 years ago sex must have been awful. People wore like a thousand layers and didnt bathe’

    ‘I think that was just a white people thing. I think most people bathed more often and basically nobody else wore that many buttons.’

    ‘Anti-racists’:

    ‘Racist! My hwite ancestors are the master race! How dare you disparage them, their bathing habits, and their fashion!’

    • FishFace@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      But it wasn’t “just a white person thing” even to the very limited extent to which it was accurate in the first place.

      When this was pointed out you leap to the defence of the original joke - not by saying “guys it was just a joke” which would be fair enough but by saying “no white people really are terrible.”

      And your latest shows you can’t, or at least don’t want, to separate anyone saying “I think it’s not ok to shit on people of any race, even when it’s white people” from white supremacism.

      You can enjoy the joke and still let yourself get educated about the reality without getting weirdly defensive about disparaging a group of people.