OffSeasonPrincess [she/her]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 27 days ago(Islamophobia, racism, hate crime) 4 days after 9/11, Balbir Sodhi Singh was murdered in a hate crime because a white islamophobe believed he was a muslim (though he was a sikh)hexbear.netimagemessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up1128arrow-down10
arrow-up1128arrow-down1image(Islamophobia, racism, hate crime) 4 days after 9/11, Balbir Sodhi Singh was murdered in a hate crime because a white islamophobe believed he was a muslim (though he was a sikh)hexbear.netOffSeasonPrincess [she/her]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 27 days agomessage-square6linkfedilink
minus-squareSirSmoothAES@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·27 days agoConservatives be like “it’s not racism because Islam is not a race” only to target Sikhs because conservatives are morons.
minus-squareLemmygradwontallowme [he/him, it/its]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·27 days agoPotato tomato, those racists won’t care to differentiate, don’t let a good tragedy go to waste; use it as pretext to commit imperial atrocities.
minus-squareUmechan [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·27 days agoI’ll never understand why some people think “I’m not racist, I’m xenophobic” is such a convincing argument.
minus-squareSirSmoothAES@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·27 days agoThey like to whitewash their bigotry on a technicality so they can pretend their bigotry is actually nuanced while it’s still just bigotry.
Conservatives be like “it’s not racism because Islam is not a race” only to target Sikhs because conservatives are morons.
Potato tomato, those racists won’t care to differentiate, don’t let a good tragedy go to waste; use it as pretext to commit imperial atrocities.
I’ll never understand why some people think “I’m not racist, I’m xenophobic” is such a convincing argument.
They like to whitewash their bigotry on a technicality so they can pretend their bigotry is actually nuanced while it’s still just bigotry.