It doesn’t matter their political system or economic alignment, authoritarians always look for unproven or racist ideas to divide others away from themselves. It doesn’t matter what race or for which political idea, racism is always bad and corrupts all ideas.
It’s easier than accepting that all people are capable of good and evil. It’s so easy to decide villains are born that way because then the targets are easy and you’re definitely a good person.
well said. Shame they don’t see that
I’m just going to continue to be happy I don’t know what Hexbear is…
You’ve likely interacted with some of their terminally-online dungeon denizens before. They have authoritarian takes that would embarrass fascists, but they call everyone else Nazis. Truly a special and unique crowd over there.
I don’t know what could be worse than fascists
Fascists cosplaying as auth-commies cosplaying as anarcho-commies.
lol you get it
Fascists in denial
Probably best to add it to your instance blocklist now and nip that shit in the bud before you do.
They actually have some reasonable people though so I don’t see a need to block the entire instance. (They know Linux, self hosting and privacy pretty well.)
They’re on .world, which defederated ages ago.
I thought hexbear defederated from world
I know they defederated from SJW, oh man, it was hilarious. They were all hyping themselves up that they have an entire ocean to dunk with and then they lost their safespace and they quickly folded. It didn’t even last a day before they admitted defeat and ran back to their safespace.
Huh. I never realised sh.itjust.works kinda shares an acronym with Social Justice Warriors. I think I’d prefer SIW given how it’s punctuated, but SJW does indeed work too.
If I pay someone to do a sex crime to me, do I get in trouble or spare them the trouble?
You both get in trouble, that’s prostitution!
LMAO!
I’m an idiot.
Unfortunately illegal is illegal so, yes, they probably would be prosecuted. It’s the “crime” bit that matters. I think there was a German (lol) cannibal who consensually ate some bits of people. Prosecuted.
He had a really great TV though.
What did Rammstein do again?
Gave groupies better seating so they could have easy access to them after shows. Potentially drugging some of them although that was never proven.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rammstein#Concert_misconduct_allegations
It finally became news that rock bands take advantage of groupies? What’s next? A rapper actually murdering someone? A polka tuba player eating an entire cake?
It was one girl getting drugged that made the news. Even though nothing happened to her back stage.
I saw them in Philly a few years ago. At the end of the show they had their cam feed point to women to flash the camera. Whoever was directing the feed kept cutting back to one woman who was obviously not comfortable with it, definitely left a bad taste in my mouth
Well that’s disappointing.
They’re being ironic and edgy. Probably.
The question is only whether you consider ironic racism (in this case mocking 19th and 20th century “race science” with reversals of focus) to be racism regardless.
I don’t think so, but there’s also always elements of Poe’s Law to consider. Not to mention that, for example, British and American racists literally said these things unironically about Germans, reaching fever pitches in WW1.
You should look at US WWII propaganda cartoons. It is very “interesting”
During that time the US rounded up all Asians and put them in internment camps for “there own safety.” Let’s just say they didn’t feel very safe living in a prison. I actually knew someone who grew up in one of the internment camps. She didn’t want to talk about the experience so I’m assuming it was unpleasant.
Long story short is that no country is free from the danger of race theory.
During that time the US rounded up all Asians and put them in internment camps for “there own safety.”
Japanese-Americans only. Chinese-Americans were actually highly praised by US propaganda of the time.
Racism is arbitrary and insane.
If you say any group of people are prone to rape because of their brains, then that is racist.
Do you, for example, think Robert Downey Jr’s blackface in Tropic Thunder was racism or a criticism of racism?
Did he say ‘the African American brain is prone to sexual assault’?
That is one of the traditional meanings of blackface, yes.
It’s also clear that the intended meaning of the act is innately critical of that mentality.
If you disagree that it is acceptable that’s valid but ignoring that the act was at least an attempt at well intentioned criticism is just dishonest.
Of fucking course you’re here with a heaping helping of terrible opinions.
Thanks for sharing, but my doctor said I should avoid false-pretenses used to destroy honest discussion.
Feel free to block me, it’s not like you’ve ever said anything of value so neither of us will miss anything.
Though seriously, in Tropic Thunder, Kirk Lazarus is a satirical character whose method of acting goes to such lengths that it becomes offensive, hence why he’s in blackface.
Like it’s supposed to be offensive, that’s the entire point. It’s satirising the film industry’s portrayal of war and the actors in the industry. They even point this out in the film itself, lol, it’s a key part of it.
Using satire to back up your deflection unironically is certainly… something. Haven’t seen that before. But the original post has no satire, punchline, or even anything witty. It’s just plain racism.
Oh, I must’ve missed that line of dialogue.
We all know words can’t really express sarcasm or other underlying feelings or meanings very clearly. Without a /s your only able to assume if the they did or didn’t actually mean that.
So what’s the joke? Are they’re pretending to be racist without the topic (rammstein) ever mentioning race to begin with?
I don’t buy that. ‘Please excuse me. I’m just going to be sarcastically racist without anyone previously mentioning race!’ – It’s straight out of the alt-right playbook; when called out, claim it’s a sarcastic, ironic joke!
No clue, could be either. It’s text on a screen and the only emotion present, is the one you decide to apply to it.
Ask them if it was a joke or not to be sure, and if you have to ask, it’s because it might not be.
Sounds like you’re going to lengths to defend this behaviour or to differentiate it.
No apologia is allowed
Actually no, the hexbear comment is clearly bad in my opinion, regardless of if it was sarcasm.
Ironically, I’m of German descent, but whichever heritage someone is in my opinion would be the same.
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Good, I’m glad you can agree it’s bad. You have to be very vigilant against the alt-right playbook—no defending sarcasm or if it’s a joke.
when you are with your peer group and use sarcasm, you probably also don’t label it as such.
That’s a fair point, id just consider that as an inside joke I guess.
Right, but there’s enough social context going on to generally assume that stans for the philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles probably don’t actually consider Germans a form of untermensch.
Most of them aren’t actual Marxists, that’s a facade for them to spread disinformation and divisive content.
What race is German?
You cracked me up. I’m assuming this was intended as a joke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germans
note that we say racism when we actually mean discrimination against an ethnicity because fuck you
You’re like those Nazis saying: “What race is black?” “What race is Islam?”
Yeah Islam isn’t a race either. It is a religion. And what point are you trying to make exactly? It sounds like you’re mad that I asked what race German is. What race are you then, American?
Thanks for proving my point and outing yourself.
Germanic
I’m not though, I’m just depressed.
