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[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 107 points 1 year ago

Fun fact: California's anti-gun culture was born out of racism and fear of the Black Panthers.

Ronald fucking Reagan started the anti-gun movement to disarm black people

[-] GroundedGator@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

And then continued it federally with bans on assault weapons and magazines over a certain capacity after someone tried to assassinate him.

I say we should bring back the Reagan approach on gun control.

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

You mean shooting presidents? That's kinda like a tradition in the one country. In other places it's more normal for US sponsored coups.

[-] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, it can't be that some people are more reasonable and don't like in a western.

[-] NABDad@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

No. Sadly, it can't. It's the racism. It's always the racism.

[-] Leg@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's an uncanny irony to me when I hear something like "not everything has to be about race" when, at least from the perspective of a non-white, everything in society really does have an unavoidable racial asterisk that we really wish wasn't there. Racism is a fixed worldwide phenomenon that we have no choice but to acknowledge at this point. It impacts everything.

[-] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, you have no choice but to acknowledge it. I'm perfectly capable of pretending it doesn't exist because it doesn't negatively affect me.

(That's sarcasm, if it wasn't clear. I hate that there are people genuinely living by that maxim.)

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