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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Plaintiff Brown not only lost a $50,000 a year gig as an electrician’s assistant, he also “became estranged from his father, who required him to leave the Brown residence,” the suit records.

"Get your racist ass the fuck out of my house." Gotta love it.

Do these people ever just stop for a moment and ask themselves why people react with such disgust when their views are exposed?

It's particularly weird because most (all?) of the racists I've known in my life are constantly looking around for other people that share their views by making dog-whistle comments (or explicitly racist comments for that matter). Like, they're never content to just keep their racism to themselves and are perpetually looking for affirmation from others - if you need that much approval from others, why not adopt views that aren't so abhorrent?

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're confused, because the approval that's showered on them from 4chan or truth social or wherever is not reflected in reality, where there aren't (normally) random collections of racists running around.

A sort of example: I have an old 4wd that sort of has a cult following. I can tell people online that I have a Suzuki Samurai, and there will be people online who know what that is. But in the real world? I have the only one in my city. It's weird and unusual. There are adults who don't remember when they were everywhere, there are adults who have never seen one, and of course, there are adults who don't even care.

It's like that with racist assholes. They spend time online thinking that their hobby (being a shithead) is normal and acceptable, then they go out in public, and try to be a racist asshole around their parents, or employers, or the general public, and they forget that their views are not normal.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We'll Skip to the important questions, this samurai did you solid axle swap it?

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Samurai's come from the factory with a solid axle at each end. You may be thinking of the Sidekick.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The joke is that the most important thing is the samurai.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Father of the year.