Earlier this week, i made a comment tagging u/smith1980 calling him a self hating black person. sadly for me. i was not in my right mind. i cared alittle to much on what people thought of me. and figured i would be this big man telling people off. after remembering... i don't care what people think of me. i was able to conclude. that what i did, to smith1980 was a dick move. and he had every right to be upset with me.

My problem with smith1980. was that he told me. that he realizes that their are racist on this site. and he doesn't wanna continue wasting his time talking to them. ok, i got that. but when their were cases, of like white people going through racism. ala twitter (X) and other places, he would be there to talk about that...

So in my mind it seemed like he was being a sneaky little rat. he would avoid talking or engaging with the racists, antisemites, and what have you's. but would conveniently talk about the bad racism. ya know, the one that happens to white people. knowing if he only talks about that. people would like him more.

So to me. it felt right calling him a self hating black person. but in reality... i should've dm'd him that complaint. or, made a post detailing this, so he could respond to it, in a more... reasonable fashion. because i didn't care, that smith1980 was black or not. i just cared, that he was seemingly one of the few non racists on the site. and brownie points that he actually called out the racists here.

But when he said he didn't wanna do that anymore. cool. but in reality. it was more like a pivot. that confused me. and since i'm here thought i might come clean here. i've been getting shit on... like alot.

Like people following me around and downvoting my posts. now, how i did i got this rep? disagreeing with nazi's and racists, and homophobes... so basically 60-75% of the user base here. so when i saw that smith1980... didn't have dislikes on his posts, or comments. that told me all i needed to know. because the group of people i roll with. who are not racist. get downvotes on our all shit.

So seeing smith1980 with nothing but upvotes. and wouldn't you know it. he no longer talks about the racists on the site anymore. i kinda just wrote him off. and felt comfortable calling hims a self hating black person. but keep in mind i wanna add a couple of notes here. just to reiterate that i don't care about race or all that shit.

1 smith1980, was the only non white person, at the time, that i knew. had i knew more non white users here. i would've tagged them too. i don't believe in race solidarity.

2 even if smith1980 was white... still would've tagged him. but instead of calling him a self hating black person. i would've just called him a racist. since both terms cover the same topic.

So yeah! that's my apology. and i wish. i would've done this better. instead of going after a decent user on the site.