But it’s okay to wheel this kind of shit out, rather than burning the papers and not publicizing that one had a Klansman grandfather? Nah, that’s not okay by me; I’d be side-eyeing the whole bloodline from that point forward if I was cursed with the misfortune of knowing some bullshit like this about someone in my IRL orbit.
Ten thousand people thought this was something worth magnifying, based on how upvotes are done on Reddit. That bugs me.
and it’s like there was no redemption arc for it to be excused, there was no “oh and my grandpa stopped being racist and became friends with a bunch black activists and marched…etc” nah he just straight up said “my grandpa wanted to join the lynch black people organization” and 10k reddit wholesome boys went poggers over it.
Terrifyingly, it got worse. It’s at 31,072 and 42,040 points now, respectively.
Both posts have a 90% upvote ratio.
It is magnifying that we still have a long way to go and to pretend that kkkrackers were not slaughtering black people for entertainment in recent memory is worse than acknowledging the disturbing truth. Whether they agree with their grandparents is ambiguous because it could go either way.
I agree though, they should have not posted this information in a neutral way. Being neutral towards racism perpetuates racism.
An upvote could mean, yes this is important to recognize racism was alot worse in recent memory and we should rise to be better to create an egalitarian society. It could also mean “racism is based”. That is the issue with being neutral on the issue.
How is he publicizing that fact? There is no identifying information in the post, and the posters account has essentially nothing identifiable. Further, someone has a racist grandfather and that’s somehow their grandchilds fault? If the grandkid is also a piece of shit then that’s fully understandable, but its not like someone can go back in time and control what organization their grandfather chose to align themselves with. You’re acting like this person took a selfie with the application, or is going around in real life and showing everyone his grandfather was a member of the KKK. Yeah, that would be deranged, but that’s not whats happening.
Also magnifying? Really? I went through hundreds of comments and literally every single person was clowning on the KKK, that persons grandfather, or discussing aspects of the application that were funny or terrifying, such as the rank tiers, or the request to work with voter registration.
Even the few dumbasses in the comments that try to sweep it under the rug by saying that the granddad had it because of “historical or educational” reasons were getting called out and blasted as idiots. The guy himself doesn’t even try defend him, stating outright to people that tried to make up excuses that he was a racist piece of shit.
I’m not debating this with you. I’m emphasizing my disgust, both with the fact that this picture exists, and with crackers that feel the need to drag this shit out into the light of day-- and right now, I’m about disgusted with you too. I’m pretty sure I’ve told you to stay out of my inbox a couple fuckin’ times, so hopefully, this time takes: stay the fuck out my inbox if you’re gonna sit there and try to make my discomfort, disgust, and contempt for the necessity to post pictures of documentation, ergo, PUBLICIZE fuckin Klansmen as a point to fuckin debate.
We are not cool, we’re barely even comrades by dint of being in the same space. Stay out. Don’t even respond. Just stay out. Because yeah; what it says to me when someone wheels out a family member’s Klan cert, that tells me that one, the poster more often than not is whiter than the driven snow, that two, their bloodline is probably that way all the way up to colonial times, and that three, they probably have inordinate amounts of cracker shit still lurking in the back of their brain that they haven’t even STARTED to process yet.
So yeah. If I don’t know someone well enough to have a read on them, and I see some shit like this, I’m judging them as a threat immediately. The fact that you conveniently just don’t seem to get that tells me all I need to know to know that I am not interested in having this conversation further with you, or anyone who thinks it’s a good idea to follow your example.
Jesus Christ. Block me then. You made a comment, and then explode when someone responds to it without immediately bowing down and worshiping every word you say like a gospel. I get there’s a lot of history behind why you feel this way, and I’m not trying to minimize it though debate, but you can’t just throw tangents out there and then act like someone threatened your life when they ask why you think that way. Which seems to be extreme assumptions and generalizations. That second paragraph is downright insane.
Also thanks for acting like because I didn’t kiss your ass or immediately call for the OP to be shot that mean I’m apparently a KKK sympathizer. The same group of deranged fucks that want me and my family dead for multiple reasons.
I’m pretty sure his grandparent is the black cop, based on the title. Which makes his grandfather a collaborators in racial violence, but it doesn’t make him a literal kkk member.
I use the same proximity rule with the klan that civilized folk use with nazis. There comes a point of coonery too egregious to cosign or rehabilitate where if you’re okay with that, you may as well count as one of them to me. If you sit at a table with klan, you are one as far as I care to observe it.
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