• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Fun fact: California’s anti-gun culture was born out of racism and fear of the Black Panthers.

    Ronald fucking Reagan started the anti-gun movement to disarm black people

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      And then continued it federally with bans on assault weapons and magazines over a certain capacity after someone tried to assassinate him.

      I say we should bring back the Reagan approach on gun control.

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        You mean shooting presidents? That’s kinda like a tradition in the one country. In other places it’s more normal for US sponsored coups.

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      Sure, it can’t be that some people are more reasonable and don’t like in a western.

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        No. Sadly, it can’t. It’s the racism. It’s always the racism.

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          It’s an uncanny irony to me when I hear something like “not everything has to be about race” when, at least from the perspective of a non-white, everything in society really does have an unavoidable racial asterisk that we really wish wasn’t there. Racism is a fixed worldwide phenomenon that we have no choice but to acknowledge at this point. It impacts everything.

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            Well, you have no choice but to acknowledge it. I’m perfectly capable of pretending it doesn’t exist because it doesn’t negatively affect me.

            (That’s sarcasm, if it wasn’t clear. I hate that there are people genuinely living by that maxim.)