
I made a post a couple days back about how my dark humor is saying I’m going to blow my dog up with a bazooka when he makes me mad (which, I’m OBVIOUSLY FUCKING NOT???) and that dark humor doesn’t always have to revolve around racism or discrimination. The white people here HATED that fucking post and there were LITERALLY people in the comments saying “I’d rather take the racist jokes over jokes about someone harming my fur baby😒” and low and behold, everyone who was mad about it was WHITE!
I thought I was crazy so I re-posted the same thing on black chat and the black people AGREED and said that joking about blowing up your dog isn’t as bad because 1. The dog can’t understand me or be hurt by what I’m saying. And 2. If you said something racist to a POC, they WILL understand and they WILL remember it and it DOES hurt!
Another time I made a post about how I would never date a white person, not because I hate them, but because I want to date someone who understands racism and what it’s like being a minority. And LOW AND BEHOLD, that post gets downvoted too because, AND I QUOTE, “It’s weird to make race such an important factor in a relationship. Race shouldn’t matter that much.”
She said “I would rather have someone call me a slur then have someone threaten my poor baby.” And I said “What slur would they use?” And she started getting all defensive and saying “it doesn’t matter, but they’d probably call me a dy*e because I’m a queer woman!” And it kinda just clicked that she doesn’t know what racism is.
But also, I knew they were all white because I was trying to clearly state the reasons why joking to your own dog about how ur gonna blow him up is nowhere near as bad as making jokes about how black people used to get ly*ched. And they glossed over everything I was saying and kept doubling down on how jokes about animal cruelty are bad, no matter what other people are joking about.