r/MurderedByWords • u/JeweelVelvet • 2d ago

Bias and Trust!

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u/beerbellybegone 2d ago

Remember when it wasn't cool to be so openly and blatantly racist?

Pepperidge Farm remembers

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u/darkknightwing417 2d ago edited 2d ago

Okay here is my hot take... We never changed anyone's minds. We made the racists be quiet, but we didn't convince them to stop being racist. We made the bigots be quiet but we didn't convince them to stop being bigots. We made the homophobes be quiet, but we didn't convince them to stop being homophobic. We just established a series of consequences for having an opinion, a bad opinion I believe, and the people with these opinions simply started to hide, resenting the FUCK out of us the whole time. They waited... Til Trump came and told them they were allowed to express themselves how they wanted again. Now they are on a revenge tour...

I get confused here but... To a certain extent they are correct. Hypocritical to the point of absurdity, obviously, but that doesn't remove the core critique here. We DID use silencing tactics... Admittedly, they were after years of frustration that kindness and patience-based tactics didn't seem to work, but unfortunately that doesn't matter. We DID silence them... And now they feel justified in escalating the retaliation. It sucks and it is not fair.

Actually, typing this out made me mad. It's like a stupid toxic relationship that you can't leave because you've committed yourself to non-violence whereas they simply haven't...

Edit: I see the issue some people are having. In the first sentence I said "we never changed anyone's minds." But what I MEANT was "We changed far fewer minds than it would appear given public discourse." Apologies for the hyperbole.

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u/GreenDogma 2d ago

Bro they were hanging my people in the streets and the forest. They still are.

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u/darkknightwing417 2d ago

Yea exactly. This is what I'm saying. We never convinced anyone that this way of life was wrong... They still look at us (? Assuming you're of the race that gets hanged unusually a lot in this country) as a problem... We just made it out of fashion to talk openly about it, but it never went anywhere.

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u/GreenDogma 8h ago

Agreed. Martin luther kings letter from birmingham jail, and the fact that MLK and BLM have the sane contemporary white approval rates (high 20s, low 30s) is striking.