“The fact that women complain about sexism but still wear skimpy clothes reinforces the misogynist view that raping women is perfectly acceptable.”

“The fact that Hispanics complain about stereotypes and yet still insist on eating burritos just reinforces the white supremacist view that we shouldn’t let any brown people into the country.”

“The fact that many black people actually do eat fried chicken merely reinforces the racist view that slavery was a good idea.”

“Jews complain about antisemitism, but are often very wealthy. This reinforces the Nazi view that the Holocaust was necessary.”

See, I would hope that every one of those statements offended you. They offend me. They’re outrageous and nonsensical. The leaps of logic are meaningless and idiotic. And the fact that the writer/speaker would make such an insane leap shows the prejudiced way in which their mind works. It is espousing the very view that it claims to be “commenting” on. If you can say “So X group does Y, which means that completely unrelated prejudiced view F is true,” it seems to me that you’re desperately looking around for reasons to be racist.

Could someone please explain why that last paragraph from Snopes is racist (on the part of Snopes)? I read it as Snopes explaining what the white supremicists think – which is indeed racist – not that Snopes thinks that way.

Could someone please translate so that I understand what the problem is?

Thanks very much!

Hmm, has anyone else noticed that racists don’t do “clever” well? My guess is that it has to do with the complete and utter inability to process critical and self-reflective thought.

I’m just going to ban S. I’m not going to be able to sit around and babysit all day, and I really don’t see this going anywhere good.

. . . And Cara’s prediction wins! The grand prize is the opportunity to bang her head against her desk. Well played.

Reading something darker and nefarous into it is really a relection of the person perceiving it, not the person who put it up. And personally I think that’s just too much damn energy to waste.

There’s a very real downside to spouting hoax definitions just because they push a few buttons: It makes those doing the yelling look uneducated and ineducable. Those who run with their emotions instead of using their heads end up doing the racists’ work for them by making themselves appear to be foolish shadow-jumpers incapable of cracking open any random dictionary before yelling that the sky is falling. This popeyed caricature image is not something one wishes to foster if racism is to be defeated; it merely serves to reinforce the white supremacists’ claim that blacks are inherently inferior. [emphasis mine]

What. The. Fuck. I never realized that snopes made a habit of editorializing, let alone in such a racist way. I don’t think that I’ll be going there for a while . . .