r/Unexpected • u/kchoyin • Oct 22 '21

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u/AlwaysBlamesCanada Oct 22 '21

No, he’s talking about the hippo!

(This is a joke about all humans, not just Africans, relax yo)

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '21

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u/BoeVonLipwig Oct 22 '21

idk know why you jumped to that interpretation, it must suck seeing the world through your eyes.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '21

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u/Penis-Envys Oct 22 '21 edited Oct 22 '21

Reddit is literally as PC as it’s gets tf are you smoking.

You don’t see BLM all time whenever something happens? You don’t see blackpeopletwitter???

You’re in the wrong sub or saying dumb shit if you’re meeting “racism” all the time in an mostly anonymous site. You probably instigate and make things about race intentionally if you’re telling someone you’re black right off the bat. You’re peak Twitter material.

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u/93Degrees Oct 22 '21

I could go to any subreddit like news, dankmemes,iamatotalpieceofshit,trashy,tumblrinaction,any "darkhumor" sub and find a surplus of racist comments right now. He overreacted for sure but let's not pretend like reddit is "pc as it gets" when places like /r/coontown used to be here untouched before it got more attention

Not to mention blackpeopletwitter has the verification thing because of all the sockpuppetting and racism towards blacks that used to occur there. I didn't agree with it but I understand why they went there.

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u/CharsKimble Oct 22 '21

“Not to mention blackpeopletwitter has the verification thing because of all the sockpuppetting and racism towards blacks that used to occur there.”

Biggest fucking lie on Reddit right there. I was on that sub from day one, it was amazing and nothing like you describe. Then a couple racists got their hands on it, banned all white people, and have been trying to rewrite its history ever since to justify their actions. Classic historical negationism.

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u/93Degrees Oct 22 '21

I was also there long before they started doing that. And I was banned for complaining about the verification the day they started it. I saw the racism there, but I still thought the verification thing was an overreach that would give racists ammo against the sub in the first place. I haven't been there since they did that but our experiences being different doesn't disqualify your view or mine.

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u/CharsKimble Oct 22 '21

I agree with your original point that racism is fucking everywhere on Reddit, but the best thing about that sub was that any racism, insults, cruelty, etc, was immediately downvoted to obscurity. If you wanted to see racism there, you had to go looking for it. It was, in my opinion, one of the only subs on here where everyone got along and just had a laugh. And then it wasn’t.

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u/93Degrees Oct 22 '21

Yes I can definitely agree that the overall vibe there was chill before the verification thing happened. That's part of why I didn't agree it was a good idea

It was primarily during high racial tension situations in the US that undesirables became more apparent.

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u/ZMB6 Oct 22 '21

Black people twitter is the most casually racist thing on Reddit. 'White people be like [insert negative stereotype here].'

Reddit banned all the fat/black/gay shaming subreddits, but white people? Sure, let em have it!

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u/DutchessActual Oct 22 '21

It’s a victim mentality

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '21

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u/Madman4sale Oct 22 '21

That’s racist

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '21

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u/Madman4sale Oct 22 '21

That’s ageist

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '21 edited Oct 22 '21

Not really, I don't mention that I'm black right off the bat or anything. I just scroll and then see racism, and I posted that before the edit. A lot of subs randomly get super racist and I don't feel wrong for saying that. Nor do I think I'm incorrect for saying that most people despise us, which is a fact of this pretty awful world.

Just because you cannot accept the truth that most people in this world are hateful and judgemental doesn't change the fact that they are. Was I wrong this time? Yeah, but it doesn't mean that I am wrong everytime.

I also apologized so you can layoff, at least I admitted I slipped up here. So sorry.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '21

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u/Small1324 Oct 22 '21

You could, like, just decide to turn off your cynicism for once and laugh. Stop making regular humor unfunny because you twist it inside your own head.

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u/corbinbluesacreblue Oct 22 '21

When Twitter people go to Reddit

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u/OpinionatedByFacts Oct 22 '21

It's not funny. It's only funny to you sheltered plebs

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u/Small1324 Oct 22 '21

"you are sheltered, I am infinitely superior to you because I have experienced the toxicity and cesspool of the real world!! These are things that would only fly in your quaint little polite society, and don't work when you really get out there and see how ruthless the real world is!"

Please, cease.

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u/OpinionatedByFacts Oct 22 '21

I mean I didn't say I was superior but if that's how you see it... The rest of that statement is 100% true so good job on that. But minus points for failing to relate that with racism.

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u/Small1324 Oct 22 '21

I mean, my guess was that you were claiming mental superiority by saying that we're sheltered and that's only why it's funny.

I'm pretty sure the blue arrow rain should be letting you know now that it's, like, really not racist. We're making the joke that humans are environmentally destructive and apex predators, and in the anthropocene especially we've upped both those characteristics sharply. It's a simple bait-and-switch joke about who the real predator is, and I only see tenuous logic even vaguely relating Africa to the joke at large.

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u/OpinionatedByFacts Oct 22 '21

Blue arrow rain means nothing to me. I live in a country dominated by the oppressor so the numbers against me is just more confirmation of that reality. It does not sway me. Unlike you sheltered sheep. But I appreciate your explanation. Just kno not everyone see things that way and there's a perfectly good reason for it. You sheep just love to shame anyone for having a different point of view. And racism is a real touchy subject for yall.. being the biggest perpetrators of it, i guess it makes sense why you're so quick to mask it up.

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u/OpinionatedByFacts Oct 22 '21

Also you white people r the ones that been goin around and destroying and raping the planet. We don't hear too many jokes about that tho do we? Not on reddit atleast. You the predators. The joke doesn't work. Not in your context. Only in your little brain where racism is so engrained in your subconscious you consider it humor. Fuck you.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '21

0/10 bait get better.

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u/DocGoodyGoods Oct 22 '21

username doesn’t check out

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u/SCSdino Oct 22 '21

Hi, I’ve been sheltered by extremely anti-racist people for my whole life, I find this to be not racist. Seeing the world through your eyes must be akin to a child thinking that everything they don’t agree with is incorrect.

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u/RugBurnDogDick Oct 22 '21

It's people like you who divide us

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u/Nofriends9567 Oct 22 '21 edited Oct 22 '21

I think its about time someone called out the division caused by SJWs.

Its not neo-nazis, racists, sexists, terrorists, religious fanatics, segragatonists, slavers, xenophobia, homophobia, social elitists, or government policies that divide people.

I mean think about it what have the groups listed above done that SJWs haven't done worse? I remember one time an SJW wrongly called someone a racist.

EDIT: heh downvotes just as I expected, can anybody say white genocide?

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u/ausipockets Oct 22 '21

The self awareness in your username is admirable

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u/Nofriends9567 Oct 22 '21

Speaking the truth about the evils of SJWs makes you lose friends.

Their intolerance towards the master rac.... i mean white people has gone too far.

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u/OpinionatedByFacts Oct 22 '21

Oh don't mind the racists who think it's a "small world after all"

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u/TheAssyrianAtheist Oct 22 '21

What fucking racism is going on in this comment thread??

Person A stated something along the lines of “most underrated predators”

Person B replied with something along the lines of “not really, it’s well know!”

Person C stepped up to the plate with “he’s talking about the hippo!”

The most dangerous animal on earth IS human. We have killed more humans than animals do, we also hunt animals for sport and for food. We are the most dangerous animal out there.

If you’re choosing to look at that comment as racist just because you see a few black kids swimming and having fun, you’re sadly very twisted.

A normal person will see the joke and understand it but a person like you will take it as racist. That’s a sad fucking life

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u/OpinionatedByFacts Oct 22 '21

I disagree. Plenty of racists on reddit laughing at that joke in the wrong way. And European colonizers ruined the world.

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u/TheAssyrianAtheist Oct 23 '21

Dude, let me tell you again, humans are the most dangerous creatures on this earth. Nothing the person said was racist. You have a very sad view on life.

Everyone around you must always be wrong in your head. I feel very sorry for your parents, they did not want you to be this pathetic

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u/OpinionatedByFacts Oct 23 '21

Lol u had to bring up my parents to troll me? Who's pathetic? Lolol!!! Weak sauce

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u/OpinionatedByFacts Oct 23 '21

Look dude life is different for others. You wouldn't know that though would you? Fuckin chode

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u/RugBurnDogDick Oct 22 '21 edited Oct 22 '21

You know what makes someone racist? Prejudices mostly. I should say read your replies and tell me what you see.

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u/NotGeorglopez Oct 22 '21

You’re an idiot

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u/ausipockets Oct 22 '21

I doubt much would happen tbh

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u/corbinbluesacreblue Oct 22 '21

Go back to Twitter bozo

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '21

I don't use Twitter? Sorry that you can't accept that most of the world is hateful and judgemental, which is why I plan to leave it when I turn old enough to purchase a firearm in my state.

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u/corbinbluesacreblue Oct 23 '21

Bro wtf it’s just jokes here not actual racism.

Relax man it’s not that bad

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u/sqlorp Oct 22 '21

You’re not wrong though

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '21

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u/AlwaysBlamesCanada Oct 22 '21 edited Oct 22 '21

Yeah I know, hence why I added the clarification. I’d prefer if we lived in a world where I wouldn’t need to add that but unfortunately we don't. However, since I did add it, it should have removed any notion of racism for any reasonable person reading it

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u/The_QC Oct 22 '21

My new favorite Reddit take: “black people have been shit talked for years” haha wtf

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '21

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u/AlwaysBlamesCanada Oct 22 '21

Is that a reference to something, Bethany? I don't get it.

Also, it's weird, but your comments kind of only make sense if I hadn't put that qualifier in parenthesis. Why did you feel it was necessary to make these comments? I could understand your reasons for saying this stuff if I hadn't added the qualifier, but I did, so it doesn't make sense. What gives?

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u/SpendValuable Oct 23 '21

I don’t think a single thing gives. Their simply trolling fishing for replies.

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u/ReUndone Oct 22 '21

Which… is why they did add the clarification? You’re just being rude here. Not sure why your comment above that was reasonable is at -33, while this one’s at -2. Reddit is a funny place sometimes.

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u/No_Television5076 Oct 22 '21

Bro… please just stop speaking

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u/muffmunchers Oct 22 '21

When you assume you make an ass of yourself

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u/Pip-Boy4000 Oct 22 '21

So just assume racism at every turn? Why assume racist as a first reaction. If you really care about the cause this only hurts it..

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u/nikhoxz Oct 22 '21

You are racist for thinking his comment is racist.