The woman who appears to have inadvertently sparked a viral far-right hoax that Haitian migrants working in Springfield, Ohio, are kidnapping and eating people's cats and dogs has come forward to say she regrets that her social media post caused so much confusion. Former President Donald Trump even ...
Racists always mean what they say
It’s only when they’re caught or called out on what they said that they want to back track on everything.
It takes a coward to say terrible things anonymously and it’s only a coward that pretends they didn’t mean what they said.
I’d partially disagree here; a lot of people don’t know how to effectively communicate, and speak in cultural innuendo and clichés because that’s the language they think in. They don’t really fully understand what they, or the people they surround themselves with mean.
Think of it like the kid in elementary school that learns a new word or phrase and sees the reaction it gets when others use it, so they (over) use it themselves to get the same reaction without understanding what it actually means.
That’s how a lot of these people live their entire lives.
That doesn’t excuse it, but it does explain it. These people have no intent to harm; they don’t understand the implications of what they’re saying enough for that.
And this is why education is so important.
Those who have been educated in critical thinking and effective communication and STILL say things like that? They’re the evil manipulative ones.
TL;DR: it’s possible to be ignorantly racist because that’s all you know.
“Casually racist”
Which means they won’t beat them, but they’ll vote against them. My grandmother wouldn’t hire Asian house cleaners because they were thieves, but she loved having them do her nails. She always pointed out black people in public. “Look at him” she would say casually. She also said in her will that if anyone was gay they couldn’t get inheritance.
Interested to know if that was respected in court.
It would have been if anyone challenged its enforcement. But since no one challenged the Un-enforcement of it, court wasn’t necessary. ;)