I want to apologize if I offended any PoC, I didn’t read the greentext correctly and “basketball American” slipped through. I’ve tried to keep my posts as clean as possible and will continue to do so. It’s entirely my mistake and I’m sorry.

    • @[email protected]
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      Its fourchan, its the most politically correct term they could come up with. I m honestly shocked there is nothing worse in there.

      • snooggums
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        Calling that politically correct is a bigger laugh than how blatantly racist it was in the first place.

        Should have called themselves swimmer American for consistency.

    • mommykink
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      Imagine being upset that your 4chan greentext forum has racism in the post. You can’t eat your cake and have it, too. That just comes with the territory

      • [email protected]OP
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        My guy, even I’m not going to defend it. I thought it meant something different as so much of the greentext seemed absurd for the sake of absurdity. I’ve posted several greentexts without racism or sexism, so it’s far from impossible. Just because something is ubiquitous doesn’t make it okay. Now I’m stuck deciding between deleting the post or keeping it up with an apology to acknowledge my mistake.

        • mommykink
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          Holy shit you sound like a gigantic pussy dude it’s a greentext nobody should be coming here without expecting to encounter some regular 4chan shit

          • [email protected]OP
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            I like to see this place as the distilled decency of 4chan and everyone else seems to agree to the same. Lemmy’s not big on unfiltered racism.

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      Bro, that’s the nicest name his years of 4chan addict brain could’ve come up with. 4chan is known for using the hard R N-word very very liberally.

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      Golfer? Polo player? What’s the whitest sport imagineable in the most offensive way?

      (Oh yes colonialism)

    • CALIGVLA
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      I can’t be the only one that notices the sheer hypocrisy of being offended by racism and deciding to be a racist in turn, right?

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          If you’re trying to offend or denigrate someone based on their skin color, then yes, that’s being racist regardless of historical or stereotype connotations. That’s literally part of the definition of racism.

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          At least I’m not a raging, hypocritical racist, but you do you, buddy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • @[email protected]
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      Here I was assuming from that line that this was not in the united states so it was notable that the man was american and also that be was wearing a basketball outfit. Then i thought it was weird they were talking about carrying given that it wasn’t the US and then I just forgot the basketball thing

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      try Yakubian Devil or Person of Mayo too, or a good old fashioned “cracker” always hits

    • @[email protected]
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      I genuinely read that sentence as, a famous basketball player.

      But calling someone “baseball American” is fucking rude.

  • Kerrigor
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    It’s called “disposing of evidence”. The only reason for him to get rid of the gun is because he doesn’t want to be found with that gun.

    • Redex
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      Maybe he took the gun back when he got out. In that case it might have just been him wanting the cab driver to have a gun to protect them, and not wanting to be prosecuted for being drunk and shooting if something were to happen.

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      It’s because IT’S HOT! Dude’s gotta get rid of it.

    • [email protected]OP
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      The slope is slippery. I don’t want to make work for the mods when people feel right in taking the next step. I like the politically correct greentexts posted here.

  • @[email protected]
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    The moral of the story is not to let oneself be blinded by one’s prejudices. Most people are good, and you have nothing to fear from them. Most people look out for each other to some extent. That is the moral of the story, OP.

  • jedi-hamster
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    I expected people on Lemmy be less sensitive than redditors, what a shame

    • [email protected]OP
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      Lemmy is incredibly PC, even more so than much of Reddit. For instance, it prevents you from posting the n word in any form- it’s filtered and removed automatically.

    • @[email protected]
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      Lemmy is like if you took regular r/politics and r/antiwork posters and gave them exclusivity to an entire platform