• SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Would I say “Trump only sees you as a cotton-picking n----r” to a black Trump supporter? Yeah, if the context was right (like it is in the example). Hard r and all. Because it’s true - that is what Trump thinks, even if he’s smart enough not to say it (often).

      That’s not the same as me calling them the n-word, I’m stating what someone else thinks.

      Of course I wouldn’t call a black person the n-word. Not because I’m afraid of the word itself, but because I genuinely don’t believe in the image of black people that word was meant to create.

      But Trump absolutely does. And it’s ok to call a spade a spade. Important, even.

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      If they were being extremely racist I might.

      Not because I’m racist but just because I know it’ll piss them off.

      With that said I’ve never actually done it just thought about it

      • blackbelt352@lemmy.world
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        Well… the were when they were in the concentration camps in 1930s Germany after the institute that performed the first successful gender reassignment surgery was burned to the ground.

        Sure it wasn’t the many generations of the horrors of slavery but this is literally just Dido-ing at this point comparing the scale of atrocities. An atrocity is still an atrocity. Slavery was bad and we still see major hardships to this day because of the effects of slavery and Jim Crow. Nazi Germany was bad and look around, we’re speed running the collapse of a democracy into a fascist dictatorship following the exact same steps as Germany did in the 30s.