• wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
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      15 hours ago

      I am! Because the fact that his family, the figures he looked up to, and he himself, all directly benefitted from the system of apartheid that was a specific integral part of the system in South Africa from which they derived their gains?

      That is relevant in the same way that saying “he was born in Alabama in the 1850s, is the son of a slaveholding knight of the golden circle, and owns a lot of bedsheets with eyeholes cut in them” would be a valid set of concerns, all of which can be used as valid identifiers that, why, yes, these add together to paint a picture of the culture that this hypothetical man is most likely to espouse. So when he “accidentally” lights a cross on fire while holding a rope with a slipknot in his offhand, do we really think that the tied slipknot at the end of his rope is to lead cattle, or is it more likely that he intends to lynch someone?

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        14 hours ago

        That’s all too many words. You don’t need all the exposition. You know how you know the guy you described is a racist? By the the fact that he’s a racist. Doing racist things.

        All that other stuff is extra padding.

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              3 hours ago

              You’re right! You know what I could have said instead?

              Who could have guessed that the rich white South African would turn out to be a white supremacist?

              See the flaw in using too few words?

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                3 hours ago

                I don’t see any flaw. The meaning of that sentence is very clear.

                If the post lead with that then maybe there wouldn’t be any complaints.

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                  2 hours ago

                  It literally DOES start with that! That’s the top level comment, word-for-word, which at least two people were too thick to understand. So yes, I gave a longer explanation, like I apparently must also provide to you.

            • in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              4 hours ago

              Says someone who’s brain is rotten from the internet. “Nah miss me with those books fam, if you can’t say it in one sentence like a viral tweet then I simply can’t use my brain.”