• ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    racism is not about the language itself. it’s about as she herself said “who is running this car show, so we will keep an eye on it”. it’s panopticon-enabled racial profiling.

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      18 hours ago

      Maybe I’m missing something obvious here, but why would you interpret “because of who is running it” as a racist dog whistle?

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        16 hours ago

        who would be the first kind of person to be the “suspicious guy running around”, as opposed to a regular guy?

        why would they need that distinction in the first place when it’s just a so-called “car show”?

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          I mean, someone behaving suspiciously? To be honest, it sounds much like you think all black people are suspicious more than the lady in the video.

          And car shows can get very rowdy - especially shows for more modern cars than classic or vintage cars. The botched car show in Gatlinburg TN a year or two comes to mind as a specific example.