Kluxers coming out of the woods.
Brandishing is a crime.
Surprised he’s not in ice
Is that guy alright? I’m not intimidated, I’m worried he has mental illness and is in need of medication to stabilize himself, he’s not doing so good
The side effects of being american for too long.
In developed countries this would be considered a “crime”
It is there too. I mean will it get prosecuted? Your guess is as good as mine, but he could be convicted of brandishing for this at least.
Before charges are even brought, he’ll have a go fund me that raises 300k from other racists.
Maybe. But it still is illegal.
Oh you guys are still doing laws down there? Doesn’t seem that way.
A white man stood in the middle of an Atlanta street in broad daylight and brandished a gun at a Black FedEx driver after repeatedly calling him “boy,” a Jan. 22 video shows.
I’ve had someone lose it at me on here when I told them ‘boy’ can be used as a racially based insult in the US. But what do you know, the same type of shithead I grew up with is still doing the same racist garbage 🤷♂️
Fun fact, Mr T chose his name because white people kept calling his dad “boy”.
I can believe it! I’ve also heard that ‘man’ as a way of casually addressing someone emerged out of black people resisting the way black men got called ‘boy,’ and that it later made its way into mainstream culture.
Someone got upset that you pointed out the racist undertones of that word when said with that tone? Must be tough for them going through life being so stupid and obstinate
Boy is fine if I’m talking to my son or if you’re Kratos. Boy is not fine talking to an adult man, especially if he’s black. That fucker needs jail time.
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Pretty much exactly what’s in the video, aggressively and condescendingly calling someone ‘boy’ to degrade them. It goes way back in the US and is tied in to both Jim Crow and chattel slavery based racism, which revolved around the concept of black people not being equals to white people due to inherent characteristics of being black (BS, obviously). This led to racist white people referring to grown black men only as boys, not men. Yelling it in someone’s face while ordering them around is invoking that history and is basically just short of shouting the N-word to a lot of people.
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Like a dog, you say ‘here boy’ to a dog — it’s like calling a woman a bitch. (And meaning it, not this new age ‘we’re taking the word back’ bullshit)
Why would reappropriation be bullshit? And how is it new age?
Because it is, or are you of the impression that calling someone a bitch isn’t an insult? Seems to me it’s still a pejorative, same with all the other ‘reappropriated’ words except for the n-word (contextually, I’ve heard black people use it as an insult too so go ahead and figure that one out for me).
Bud, i’m Queer. Got some big ol’ history about taking weapons from those who would oppress us and turning them into windchimes my friend…
Listen, I understand that there’s this mentality that taking words back is somehow empowering. My counterpoint is that there’s a considerable number of men, at least where I live, who would take being called queer as an insult. They’d definitely take being called bitch as an insult, shit dude — maybe you’ve never met someone who went into prison but you do not call them a bitch. You’re likely to get the shit kicked out of you.
There’s not much to figure out. If I use a certain tone, the word “queer” will still be used as pejorative, even if it’s mostly not these days. It sounds like you don’t really understand what you are complaining about, unless you have more to say to make your point?
The English language is not a tonal language, and it’s interesting that you bring it up — because I have only heard queer used as a pejorative.
Reappropriation does not work.
Thats justification for lethal self defense
Guys, you all need to calm down. This is a being taken way out of context. The klansman was clearly just trying to defend himself from his own impotence.
I bet we pay his way. Sad.
Behold, the master race!
What’s the name of that blue eyed, bearded and full of tattoos guy that identifies assholes in the internet? He would love this one.
TizzyEnt
Thank you!
that identifies assholes on the internet
Like that’s difficult?
- <— that’s an asshole
Markup is not being kind turning that puckered asshole into just a dot. 😔
I know, I tried to fix it and quickly gave up. Kurt Vonnegut would be rolling in his grave.
That doesn’t look like Elon Musk …
