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[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 54 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My high school from a red state was like 99% white and also 99% conservative and had this attitude of racism is bad but also racism doesn't exist anymore then proceeds to make racist jokes and support racist politics (including students who were very academically focused), although it never evolved to anything as stupid as taking a group photo holding up a racial slur. There was a lot of stuff from there though that seemed normal at the time then after I left realized how fucked it was, and I know of other people who think the same thing.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

although it never evolved to anything as stupid as taking a group photo holding up a racial slur

The fundamental difference between the Conservative Citizens Councils and the Klu Klux Klan was the veneer of political correctness the former utilized to make the violence they doled out via the police appear legitimate.

There was a lot of stuff from there though that seemed normal at the time then after I left realized how fucked it was, and I know of other people who think the same thing.

Lots of code words and turns of phrase, intended to alienate certain kinds of people and entitle others. Dog whistles are very popular in conservative communities.

We recently had a high school marching band get selected to perform at the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. After the students raised $15k to pay for the trip, the Superintendent shut it down on the grounds that "New Orleans isn't a safe place for teenagers". Why was our city safe but the majority African American city dangerous? Who can say?

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago

The main problem at my high school was that people, both students and faculty, were constantly parroting shit they heard from Fox News (which is constantly promoting stuff under a racist agenda) and weren't in an environment that made them think about how their actions impact other people (which means the education system obviously failed at its job), so they would believe stuff like actual racism doesn't exist anymore and black people are oppressing white people and speech doesn't hurt anybody, and the extreme lack of diversity didn't help either. However, if you were to have a serious conversation with them most of them would say that racism is bad, so I think that if people actually had an understanding of the world beyond Fox News propaganda a lot of the edgy racist stuff would die off. With queerphobia there was the opposite problem, where people would bring up queer stuff in jokes to look edgy but in a serious context they would say that queerness is morally wrong.

[–] hector@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

I want to go in New Orleans someday to see the hometown of Suicideboys and get to know the people there...

It looks so interesting culturally and socially

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[–] nothingcorporate@lemmy.today 15 points 3 days ago
[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 162 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I am allways fascinated by people who just have to do things that will cause them a lot of problems.

I get that they lack empathy, that much is clear, but where is their sense of self preservation?

Part of me is envious that they have so few problems that they deliberately make more for themselves.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 61 points 4 days ago (2 children)

What, you're trying to tell us that you were never so comfortable with your station in life that you uh... printed off scrabble tiles to make matching necklaces that spell out a racial slur as a teen??? Geeze what a tragically empty life you must have had.

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[–] nobleshift@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago (36 children)

I just do not understand how anyone involved thought this was a good idea.

[–] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

They're teenage boys. They're dumber than hammers.

[–] nobleshift@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but hammers are useful.

[–] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hate to be so cynical, but so are dumber than hammer 18 year olds in wars.

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[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

Oh I absolutely see how it happened. It's rooted in that love of "Technically correct." I can absolutely see one of them saying "All I did was have a picture of a scrabble tile with the letter G on it. Is having a single scrabble tile illegal? You can't simply keep us from associating with each other, the first amendment protects the right to peaceably assemble!" All the while they know very obviously what they did, it's just that they thought they could technically get away with it. They figured that if no one of them openly used the whole word, they couldn't possibly face any consequences.

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[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 111 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Oklahoma the prototypical red state shithole.

Where if the black community becomes peacefully prosperous, it's too much for the numerous white inferiority-complex shitkickers to take, they boil and fester like an infection until one night they swarm like a biblical plague of locusts to burn and raze the black community to the ground.

Hollow and ignorant, lazy and angry white madness is synonymous with republican-voting states.

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[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 45 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Imagine this photo popping up whenever any one of these idiots tries to get a job.

That long haired kid looks like he means it the most

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not to defend racists or imply this is acceptable in any way but everybody does stupid shit when they're a teenager and something like this shouldn't haunt them for the rest of their working lives provided they mature into well-adjusted adults.

The bigger problem is the poorly-adjusted adults in the communities that raise these kids and teach them to be hateful towards people with harmless differences.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The letters they are holding were provided by the school for some kind of event. It seems like these kids thought they could be funny by spelling out a no no word. To any rational thinking human, this isn't funny, but teenagers aren't rational think humans. That's pretty much the definition of puberty.

But it's 2024 and kids post everything online, so now it's gone viral and everyone judges them as racist scum that deserve to never get a job in their lives. Off of a single photo.

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[–] Case@lemmynsfw.com 28 points 4 days ago (2 children)

As a Texan, in a purple area, this doesn't surprise me from Oklahoma.

I had the displeasure of driving through OK to get to my late father in law's hospital bed before he passed.

I ended up blowing through a toll entry because they didn't accept paper money or cards. Just coins. I went to the little building to try to pay my way, and it appeared to be abandoned.

Mother fuckers, I can buy a legal variant of weed with my fucking watch. Coins? Join this century please.

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[–] Draghetta@lemmy.world 38 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Guy 1 and 3 fucked up big time, now their display of love for Christmas spices is ruined. What were they thinking

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
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[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Guys it was a mixup. They meant to say GINGER.

Filthy, disgusting, subhuman gingers.

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[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

The punishment fit the crime. Let the picture follow them forever and let their fellow students take out the frustration of losing homecoming on them.

[–] dubious@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

oklahoma. drop it into a blender and start over.

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