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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow many racists have to be publicly and visibly fired from their jobs,
or dropped by their schools, or what have you, before the others will learn that there are consequences for spewing your shit like that?
gollygee
(22,336 posts)but that means the white people around them have to interrupt racism when we see it, every single time.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)Let's remember, they aren't too bright.
Phoenix61
(17,000 posts)That shit spews from them without a thought. Throw in a sense of entitlement and they are convinced it wont happen to them.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,669 posts)is that it helps us identify them. What I don't understand is why knowing this doesn't prevent these idiots from displaying their racist asshole selves in public when somebody is pointing a phone at them. If you know your terrible behavior is going to be displayed within the hour on Twitter or Instagram or Facebook or wherever, possibly costing you your job and at least subjecting you to scorn and ridicule, why wouldn't you stop and run away at the first sight of a person with a phone?
randr
(12,409 posts)Don't encourage them to crawl into some hole. Let them expose themselves
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)watching this shit happen and not at the very least go stand with the black person? It's not just the racists who are perpetuating this shit. We all need to take a stand in letting racists know this is not acceptable behavior in our country.
brooklynite
(94,499 posts)Anger and resentment at being "unfairly" fired.
tulipsandroses
(5,122 posts)Too many feel they can do whatever, say whatever. Didn't start with Trump. But many certainly feel emboldened by him. I don't think we will ever rid ourselves of racism in this country. Having some of these people go back to the rock they were hiding under would be nice though, them understanding their behavior is not tolerated in society. I'll take that.
SamKnause
(13,091 posts)sanatanadharma
(3,696 posts)Sensible society censors sick souls to save sisters and sons.
Now the post-PC time has come for severe shunning of the sociopaths.
Enough of those who are factually, logically, ethically, morally and altogether deplorably malignant and mean.
qwlauren35
(6,147 posts)Ten or twenty is not going to do it.