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[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I’m glad fiction helped you see the modern problems with class traitors.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh, I absolutely know it's not new. Long ago, I thought that Uncle Ruckus in the Boondocks was an absurd fictionalized character. But people like that absolutely exist.

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[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I don’t often get to talk about this because I’m a straight white guy from the south with a thick accent. I ain’t upset about it because I would assume the worst of me too.

I think it’s at least semi common knowledge that conservative/racist/sexist/homophobic white men often assume all other straight white men think the same as them and will say some wild shit on that assumption. Well it wasn’t common but I definitely remember a few black folks that may as well have been Stephen from Django Unchained