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Your thinly veiled bigotry is still just bigotry, despite hiding it behind a strawman

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[โ€“] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 173 points 4 days ago (22 children)

Jokes on you, I can't list 10 male athletes either!

[โ€“] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The ones I can name?

LeBron James

Shaq

Michael Jordan

OJ Simpson

Magic Johnson

Babe Ruth

Lance Armstong

Tony Hawk

Jeff Gordon

Dale Earnhardt

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Mike Tyson

And all of them mostly because of memes.... isn't it telling that the only white guy on the list in a competitive team sport is from a time before black people were allowed to compete, because it was believed that being black gave you an "unfair advantage"

History really does repeat itself

Now I know there are plenty of white NFL and NBA athletes, but... how often do they show up in movies alongside Bugs Bunny or wind up in fighting games from 80's and 90's?

I actually had Danica Patrick on the list, but then I remembered she's a woman...

and I only know her because of her highly inappropiate and questionable appearance in Sonic And Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed

The only character that had less of a reason to be there was Yogscast, a Minecraft Youtuber who didn't even know what Sonic was prior to being in the game.... You pick your celebrity endorsement deals well Sega

I also almost included Trayvon Marten, but then I remembered he wasn't an athlete....

Ya know it's fucked that famous black men in the modern day fall into three categories

  1. Musicians forced to sing about criminality by a label who will drop them the second they stop living up to the stereotype then turn around and have that music used as a condemnation of their own race by bigots like Shaprio

  2. Athletes praised purely for their physical achievements and never their academic ones

  3. Regular people who spark social justice movements they never asked for by getting shot to death by some bigot.

And the one exception is a President who created the divided America we see today not by anything he did wrong, but by simply being a successful skilled black man in a station that bigots were convinced only whitey could have.

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