• thericofactor
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    3 months ago

    <sigh> black people as a race are historically insulted by depicting them as primates and of course that would weigh much more than this case of a single Caucasian man. Hence racism as opposed to insult.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah, all of a sudden, russians are “caucasian”. It’s very convenient to hide racism behind “that’s not a race, though”. /s

      People used to be racist against italians, baltic people and the irish. Don’t tell me that a russian person is ok, because they’re “white”.

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          3 months ago

          As I’ve said before: monkey caricatures have historical precedent. It’s about as bad as depicting him like a kraken/squid.