• BigFig@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Hulk Hogan is a racist piece of shit (and a union buster) and does not deserve to be immortalized in meme form

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      10 months ago

      Citation provided:

      https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/26/hulk-hogan-wrestling-racism-gawker

      Caught on tape dropping the hard n over daughter dating a black man. Fuck that asshole.

      https://www.si.com/wrestling/2018/05/03/hulk-hogan-boys-girls-club-speech-racist-sex-tape-speech-video

      Three years later, he had this to say…

      “With this foundation, I can be accountable. I can learn from my mistakes and I can move forward,” Hogan said. “And what’s so cool now is working with the Boys Club, I have a chance to help these kids not make the mistake I made, being at the wrong place at the wrong time or saying the wrong words.”

      No words on equality, changing his attitudes, nope just regrets being caught. Jfc. Prick.

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      10 months ago

      i dont think a meme is going to be the make/break with one of the most famous perosnas in all of modern media history dude. youre better off prostesting his torn yellow shirt being in a glass case at your local hard rock cafe

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      10 months ago

      immortalized in meme form I worry you may have spent a little too much time on the internet for today.

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      10 months ago

      Good lord lemmy users really just don’t wanna enjoy anything 😂

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        10 months ago

        I had a guy tell me you have to be drunk to enjoy a concert. There are a lot of people here who need to stop taking SSRIs, touch grass, and get laid or something

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      10 months ago

      Hes not racist, just made a racist remark like we all have at one point in our lives. He did bust a union though.

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        10 months ago

        Making racists remarks is what makes you a racist. Assuming everyone else has is similarly troubling.

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          10 months ago

          Totally agree.

          And even if you don’t say racist things, growing up in the US, the pervasive, insidious racist ideas (e.g., myths, stereotypes, falsehoods) may have infected our thinking.

          I think Dr. I. X. Kendi framed it right. It’s on each of us to understand what those racist ideas are, examine ourselves, and choose to fight against them not just in our own minds but everywhere.

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          Dude, who are you fooling, you expect me to Believe you never dropped an N bomb? What are u getting out of pretending you never said or engaged in racist behavior when we know profiling in the very least is a very ingrained primitive behavior. Keep living in your fantasy land.

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        10 months ago

        I want you to know that the “default” is NOT saying racist shit.

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          Dude, who are you fooling, you expect me to Believe you never dropped an N bomb? What are u getting out of pretending you never said or engaged in racist behavior when we know profiling in the very least is a very ingrained primitive behavior. Keep living in your fantasy land.

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        10 months ago

        I’ve never once dropped the hard n and I can’t think of anyone who has even my late racist dad. That term comes from a place of bigotry against black people.

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          Dude, who are you fooling, you expect me to Believe you never dropped an N bomb? What are u getting out of pretending you never said or engaged in racist behavior when we know profiling in the very least is a very ingrained primitive behavior. Keep living in your fantasy land.

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            Dude, who are you fooling, you expect me to Believe you never dropped an N bomb?

            Yes. Millions of people can say the same.

            Sounds like maybe you are surrounded and raised by racists? That sucks man.

            On the other hand, our whole culture has been steeped in racism, ever since Europeans first set foot on the continent. So probably not a lot of people can truly say they’ve never had a racist thought or held some racial bias or did some racist thing, whether unknowingly or not. Because there are lots of manifestations of racist ideas and if one is white, one is probably blind to at least some of it.

            It’s a lot easier to never say a specific, disgusting slur.

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          Dude, who are you fooling, you expect me to Believe you never dropped an N bomb? What are u getting out of pretending you never said or engaged in racist behavior when we know profiling in the very least is a very ingrained primitive behavior. Keep living in your fantasy land.

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            I’ve never dropped an N bomb. Normal people don’t, and that is absolutely not what internalized or ingrained racism refers to. It refers to the more insidious subconscious racist tendencies, those which I do fall prey to and have to actively unlearn the same as anyone else. The kind of overt racism you’re describing is not the same, and has never been justifiable or explainable, it’s just disgusting and racist. If you truly think everyone else goes around using racial slurs, you absolutely need a reality check and probably some serious amends making, you fucking weirdo

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    10 months ago

    How tf do they reconstruct someone who we don’t even know whether or not they existed?

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    10 months ago

    Trevor on his way to get the jews out of egypt between two bank heists.

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    10 months ago

    We have zero evidence what he looked like. The region was extremely ethnicly diverse. He could have looked like anything really, from pasty blond/red haired white guy to dark skinned. Most likely just similar to your average people in the region today.