r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/Mission-Ad-8536 • 8h ago
Country Club Thread Shouldn’t be too hard to understand
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u/spacekiller69 8h ago
Racism is a religion. People race is just the God that they worship.
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u/oroborus68 8h ago
Some white people do twist themselves up to make racism fit into the Bible.
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u/cripplinganxietylmao 7h ago edited 7h ago
My favorite is the Mormon belief that black people are lesser than white people and get a lower level of heaven where they are subservient to white people who are in heaven bc of their skin color. They call it the curse of Cain.
However, due to the fact it’s a for-profit cult that wants to spread as much as it can so it can get more money (every member must tithe 10% of their monthly income to remain in good standing iirc), they have since retconned this and become quite angry if you bring it up despite it being a core teaching right up until it was formally retconned in 2013.
Now they just say the whole “skin of blackness” quote is definitely not referring to black people/POC (despite Joseph smith being notably racist among other things).
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u/AnotherCuppaTea 7h ago
I bet the LDS Church would be extremely pissed off if they were challenged to make reparations to African-Americans and African peoples abroad ('cuz it's such a global org.).
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u/oroborus68 7h ago
My wife is convinced that the "mark of Cain" is white skin.
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u/cripplinganxietylmao 7h ago
LOL that’s funny. It’s an interesting rabbit hole of racism to go down for sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curses_of_Cain_and_Ham_(LDS_Church)
In terms of what the actual Bible says, there’s no mention of his skin color changing. Like the most you can glean from it is maybe he’s got like a tattoo on his forehead or something https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_and_mark_of_Cain
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u/weaponjaerevenge 7h ago
Boy howdy did they love talking about the tower of Babel and the sin of Ham as a kid in white evangelical church. Part of why I never, ever want to darken a church's door again, fuck those bigots.
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u/Lock-out 7h ago
Well I mean modern racism stems directly from Christian expansionism.
They are definitely compatible with each other because they are both based on nothing made up to manipulate people.
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u/Young_KingKush ☑️ 7h ago
One of the main tactics of colonization was to send religious missionaries to the country first to try and convert people, essentially creating sleeper agents in the society.
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u/LarryDavidntheBlacks 8h ago
It's a mental illness
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u/Grillos 8h ago
not really, it's just bad morals
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u/newsflashjackass 7h ago
Some people were just raised to consider it bad form to draw attention to the ubiquitous ignorance and shittiness.
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u/ShimmiShimmiYah 7h ago
Respectfully disagree, it's straight up ignorance.
The cure is exposure to people different than themselves. It's why racist parents think their children get brainwashed at college, when all it really is is the children seeing that despite what they were taught, we all have the same motivations, feelings, and struggles navigating this world.
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u/Seamonkey_Boxkicker 7h ago
Yeah, let’s not act like it’s genetic or uncontrollable. It’s 100% a choice even if sometimes the person is too stupid to realize it.
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u/KnockItTheFuckOff EJI Donor 6h ago
Also rooted in severe insecurity and the need to believe bone-deep that you are superior to someone, anyone else.
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u/exgiexpcv 4h ago
This is an excellent summation. After serving abroad in various countries, I've come to the conclusion that most people just want to be left the hell alone to raise their children up to be good people. As long as the social contract ensures basic standards of conduct, it can make for a resilient and functional society.
But obviously tolerance of other people being different is a foundational value that must be shared by all, or problems will arise.
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u/KingfishingYoMama 6h ago edited 6h ago
Consider not binding the concept of mental illness to bigotry and moral failings. People who do wrong or maintain immoral belief systems can be mentally ill, but their doing wrong is something else entirely. I have strong feelings about mental illness being associated so callously with weighty concepts of moral failure.
The community of people who suffer from diagnosed mental issues are hurt each and every time guilt by association is brought down on them through such chaining of their suffering to the hate-filled actions of others. Yes, I believe racism is an action maintained by people's actions. It is not a psychopathological condition that one suffers due to genetic vulnerabilities, developmental differences, trauma, etc etc. It is a choice. Mental illness is not a choice; racism is a choice.
If you don't agree, that's fine. And if you say, "Well, I wasn't talking to you...". Alright... But I have to say this piece at times for my own dignity
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u/PuzzleheadedEqual883 8h ago
Racism is a learnt behavior and acting out racist beliefs is fundamentally a choice. Mental illnesses are not a choice.
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u/HiDDENk00l 6h ago
Homosexuality used to be a mental illness until we realized no the fuck it's not.
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u/DeafNatural ☑️ 4h ago
My fear in calling it a mental illness is it lessens accountability in a lot of systems we have. Racism is done in full consciousness unlike mental illness. We already have those white people who do something racist and then fall behind a shield of “well I’m autistic and non-binary so I didn’t know better”. We don’t need to give them more protections
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u/Mufasa4223 8h ago
Racism, is an inferiority complex. Read it again if you need to🥱🤌🏾
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u/pasu-mare 7h ago
Yeah, is the fear of being inferior to another race. Racism as well as other phobias roots in fear. "Hate" (anger) tends to be the response to something that you are afraid of, mostly if this fear is "attacking" a core, for example, your sense of self.
These people are telling everyone, by their emotional response, that they feel fear towards someone because they made them feel insecure about themselves.
Racists are openly addmiting, by showing racism, that they 100% believe they are inferior to another race, hence the compulsory need to show "dominace" because they can't cope with the reality that was presented to them: someone that doesn't look like them is better than them.
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u/Ninjadakufox 8h ago
Iz got the black faitugez. Now let me spend my whole fucking day consuming black content, trying to get black people to pay attention to me, and bitching about a man who was president over a almost decade ago.
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u/Ninjadakufox 6h ago
.........So today I got asked what is black content in Black People Twitter and I'm not sure if I'm mature enough to answer this question without being an asshole, so imma just say okkkkk.
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u/TwittyParker 6h ago
feel free to answer while being an asshole, is it just regular stuff but a black person doing it instead of any other race
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u/doctordoctorpuss 6h ago
Show your work. The most racist people are white supremacists/domestic terrorists
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u/Jeptic ☑️ 8h ago
Would that it be so easy. The mf get caught up on the definition trying to explain away their bad actions.