Edit: Fellow white people, please read the article before just reading the title and reflexively commenting to make it about yourselves, thx

  • @[email protected]
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    352 months ago

    Um, is this a blatantly racist title? As a white person who never even got offended at Haitians claiming freedom in the first place, I think it is.

    • Capt. Wolf
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      It’s a shitty, incendiary, clickbait title.

      If you have to gain equality by dragging someone down instead of elevating yourself, then we all end up down in the mud. Hate is not progress.

    • @jordanlundM
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      I wouldn’t call it blatantly racist, it’s obviously biased coming from someone of Haitian heritage. But I think they over-sell it.

      Your average American likely doesn’t think about Haiti at all, positively or negatively.

      • @BreadstickNinja
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        92 months ago

        Yeah, if you asked Trump supporters to find Haiti on a map, I’m guessing a single-digit percentage is getting it right. Their prejudice towards immigrants is not some calculated, historically-informed position. It’s a basal fear of the other.

    • shastaxc
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      I don’t even know what they got independence from. France, hundreds of years ago? Why would I care? To equate white people with the French definitely seems racist to me.

    • @Maggoty
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      It’s no different than the US blowing stuff up in the developing world. It’s not about you specifically.

    • @distantsounds
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      Are you sure you’re not offended?

      • @[email protected]
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        Considering most Americans don’t know the history of Haiti, nor could even point it out on a map. So I doubt many are offended

        • @michaelmrose
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          That is the great thing about hate it doesn’t really require specific knowledge. Most of the people who lynched black folks in the south didn’t have a lot of specific understanding of the cultures or history of the people they hated they had a sort of diffuse hatred based on nothing real. Assuming that historical issues aren’t a root of anything because the rabble doesn’t specifically understand why they are supposed to hate someone is just a basic misunderstanding of how people work.

          It’s like thinking the smell of shit doesn’t come from the turd because the people smelling it can’t actually see it.

  • @ProfessorScience
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    242 months ago

    Oh shit, we haven’t? Do I… do I have to start saying stuff about eating pets?

    • Miles O'Brien
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      62 months ago

      And here I thought I agreed with the Haitians, and thought that people like John Brown did nothing wrong…

      Turns out I’m Big Mad?

        • @[email protected]
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          Their complaint is valid, making accusations towards a group based solely on their skin color is wrong no matter the color. Also I hardly think the MAGA white people, which I assume is the group this article was attempting to blame, know enough history to know how Haiti got its independence.

  • @eran_morad
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    Not so sure it’s white people in general. France, obviously yes. I don’t think any other country ever demanded “reparations” for the loss of slave labor. That said, the US has had a complicated and at times troubling relationship with Haiti, intervening on France’s side during Jefferson’s presidency (Jefferson was a slave owner and shit was fucked).

  • AlphaOmega
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    32 months ago

    Nothing like a little racism to point out some other racism