But can we talk about how public transport has gone to shit with black people acting like circus animals to the point that Japanese people are putting up posters like this?
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I wouldn't say the tweet doesn't say that, but I don't think it's wrong to say that either. I think this might be the first time I've seen Dom apply r16 to black people.
the tweet literally doesn't say that. No where in the tweet does the word "inherently" exist.
Also its not the first time. i've seen him ban a post that posted a video of a black person twerking and a gorilla twerking, claiming that the post was asserting that black people were gorillas or something even though to me it seemed more like it was asserting that twerking is gorrilla behaviour.
I mean the tweet said, "black people which make public transit disgusting and unsafe." It doesn't have to literally have the word "inherently" in there for us to recognize the implication. But rather than trying to argue that the tweet is not asserting that, it would be better to argue that the post shouldn't be removed because of the content of the tweet.
i dont agree that it should be removed either way , but i genuinely did not read it as "inherently ", i read it as it was meant to be read which was that it refers to their behaviour
Sure, but is their behavior not a largely inherent trait? Or at least (without debating nature vs. nurture and genetics), the tweet is saying it is. It just says “black people and immigrants do X.” Not “when they behave badly,” not “at a disproportionate rate,” not “obnoxious black people and immigrants do.” Literally just “black people and immigrants.”
Now, I don’t have a problem with people saying that. I think it being removed for rule 16 id retarded because I largely think that rule 16 itself is retarded. But, I don’t think Dom is incorrect in saying that it does violate that rule even though I think he’s wrong for having that be a rule.