• lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The classic ‘I don’t care how horrible this person or view is’ until it affects them ‘on noooo, I realized he’s terrible! Now I get to seem like an enlightened white Knight, warning others of obvious flaws I decided not to see!’

    I bet if the joke was about Mexicans they wouldn’t have cared, because it’s not them.

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      18 hours ago

      That’s what gets me about this one. It’s not just that they don’t care until it affects them–it’s how incredibly specific this one is. My dude, did you think that he hates Mexicans, South Americans, Dominicans, Haitians, literally every single person on Earth living south of the Texas border, EXCEPT Puerto Ricans?

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      “How did the leopard get on my face?”

      Flip flopping is worse than just accepting a bad mistake. You were out for PR, not to actually endorse anyone, and got burned.