Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.

White supremacists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.

meanwhile here in realityland, a white woman yelled the n word at a Black boy and got at least one million dollars in crowdfunding for it…

Right? Like if a Black guy's robbing me, it's not because he's an [n-word], it's because he's an asshole. In other words, it's not because everyone who looks like him in one way (skin colour, ethnicity — plenty of Black people with no heritage tracing back to the African continent) is sub-human, it's because this. individual. person. is a shithead.

I actually have this experience. I was once jumped by two Black guys in high school (brothers, I think). I somehow pissed off a gang and this guy (actually a Hispanic guy) wanted me roughed up. Not killed, it wasn't that serious, but he wanted a message sent. Anyway, I never attributed the attack to their skin colour or their race. If it could be attributed to a broader group, it was the gang, which featured members who were Black and Hispanic and maybe even white or Asian.

I feel like this shouldn't have to be explained to rational people and I expect a lot of people here are like "no shit dude, you're preaching to the choir," I just also find it weird that people are like "fuck you and everyone else who looks like you." Makes no sense to me.

Oh... even better... I once got into a fight with a bully who happened to be Black in high school. Again, I didn't hate his whole race because he was a shitty person for whatever reason. We both punched each other, we both got suspended. Years later I see him at a job. He tries to talk to me, but I duck him. Those days, I was getting a ride to work, and walking home at night. So I'm walking home one night and he rolls up on me. He's got a nice car. Offers me a ride. I get in, he turns the music down. We talk about work. We don't talk about our past. He doesn't apologise. He's not interested in reconciliation. He knows who I am, but we silently, mutually agree, as men, that high school was high school and we're adults now. He asks if he can drop me off at home. I have him drop me off a couple streets over. He understands, doesn't take it personally. We shake hands, I thank him for the ride. We never became friends, but if he said hey to me at work, I didn't duck him. This was over 25 years ago. I have no idea where he is in life. I don't even recall his name. But I hope he's a grandfather and has a lot of happiness. I don't want to meet his kids or grandkids, or even see him again. But I figure maybe he had a rough childhood. I hope he's doing better these days, because he was doing better last time I saw him.

I look at people as individuals, the product of their combined education (not just school but like "every man is your teacher") and experience, not as part of their race, and I think that's how rational people look at it. I guess, anyway.

It's so easy, almost second nature to do it as far as race goes. Religion is harder. So is sex/gender. But if you can slow down and apply the same logic... I think a lot of things will fall into place. But that's a story for another time.

Lmao, you could also just… not instinctively call people slurs during a confrontation? Like, so many other expletives you could use?

People like this are so fucking weird. Like oh, you can't say a word? Wah, baby is so oppressed.

Black folks used to get lynched for looking at white women the wrong way (Edit: Now that I think about it, black folks got lynched if white women looked at them the wrong way). Even today, they get incarcerated for the dumbest shit.

People that think they're oppressed because they experience social pressure have no concept of what real oppression is like. They have to make bullshit like this up and call it oppression because even 1 day of being truly oppressed would induce suicide on their fragile ego.

If you want to say the word, stop living like a coward, say it, and accept the consequences for your actions.

It's like people who saw that Druski video and said "Oh, so blackface if okay now, too?" Yeah, I guess so. You should make a video on blackface right now and upload it if it's the same thing. Oh you did and lost your job? Maybe it's not then, and you should find out why instead of crying about it.

/Rant (But seriously, maybe John Brown was right)

And I bet that's not the weirdest scenario he imagined