Sam Kerr’s alleged racist slur toward cop revealed in British tabloid: she called a cop “a stupid white bastard”

We actually prefer the term "melanin challenged" these days

It’s like traveling into an alternate dimension where people are still scandalized by ankles

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Every so often one of these posts will go up and I'll get forcibly reminded that Hexbear has an extremely settlerish bias(the outliers fuck it up for everyone here frankly); but it is what it is. It's frankly a miracle even two spaces amenable to us exist in the fediverse.

Okay but like, everyone here is laughing at the fact that "stupid white bastard" was apparently considered a slur. Like she didn't even say cracker or anything but I guess just saying someone is white is bad optics now or whatever.

If you think it's a problem, why don't you ask the mods to start banning it, and remove all the emojis while we're at it?

If you don't understand why "stupid white bastard" is ok but "stupid black bastard" is not, then you don't actually understand racism. You just think it's when you're mean about someone's skin color, not when you're systematically ruining an entire group of people because of their skin color.

Nah it's funny

You still on this kick huh?

The fact that acti-rasciism legistion is being used to protect a white person proves you are wrong about this. I am sorry. Mayocide memes are the only way

Bruh next thing you'll be whining about heterophobia, cisphobia, anti-American sentiment, Christianophobia, and ableism against the able-bodied. That's exactly how you sound. There's an unambiguous oppressor v oppressed dynamic that makes jabs at the former group trivial in comparison and if you can't see that idk what to say. Please lecture us next on how the "tissues for cissues" emoji is just as offensive and bigoted as a "trans tears" mug

To get technical. White isn't a race. Black became a race since our past was stolen and we have no direct ties to where we came from(though that leads to race being a construct anyway but that's another convo). White was created to racialize/otherise and barely means anything today beyond a descriptor. Before white people were just Irish or British or wherever white people come from.

i don't really care about "the left" or whatever. Using white as an insult can be funny

If it bothers you so much, then do more to fight the existing power structure, because this sort of thing won't go away until white supremacy does.

I mean Sam Kerr is a white Australian. Her calling a white English cop a white bastard is not a big deal, unless you want to make the argument that she's somehow being racist to herself by doing this.

I agree. But I also believe that 99.99% of white people do not care about ”slurs” towards them because they have nothing to fear, and it’s just a personal offense like calling someone a rock head or dumbass. White people should care if they get called honkey or redneck since those are classist terms for poor white people, and they’re being systemically discriminated against.

I kinda agree but also like think it's nerd shit because it doesn't actually hurt any white people.

Don't be a stupid white bastard and you won't get called a stupid white bastard; simple as

Wrong. Racism has systemic and structural components to it. You can't be racist to white people in white majority supremacist countries. Like, by definition.