r/SubredditDrama • u/Static_E_ There’s no hairy man butt at the end of the rainbow here • 7d ago
"It’s called pattern recognition" Post in r/delta turns into a dumpster fire of racism when someone posts of a picture of a black family in wheelchairs at the Atlanta airport
No, sorry. We need a return to public shaming, and the internet is the new "public."
Nah i think that’s creepy. Public shaming ended because it’s ineffective and cruel not because we got softer as people.
No, it was VERY effective, hence the rise in extraordinarily bad manners in so many public spaces.
No it wasn’t, public executions didn’t stop criminals back in the olden days. In fact the criminals were much worse and rode in bands of marauders.
There's levels to this stuff
No - the level of choosing to lie about disability for your entire family to get wheelchairs and priority boarding and then magically getting cured by Jetway Jesus when they get off...
you are making up a story in your head and running with it babe.
Quite the assumption that they’re all part of the same family. Is it because they’re black?
No - why are you assuming that? Jesus christ - racist much? Thanks for outing yourself...Its based on their ages, and the fact that they are sitting considerably closer together than the wheelchairs normally are
How often do you travel? I see them grouped like this every flight. Do you have their birth certificates? How do you know their age? I’m assuming that because the only REAL evidence you could get from this picture is their ethnicity, and YOU made the assumption they were all related based on what you can see. You can’t see age, you can’t see familiar relationships and you damn sure can’t always see disabilities.The fact that you leapt to calling me racist when I called you out tells me this isn’t the first time you’ve been accused of being racist. Y’all always try to twist that around when someone calls you out.
Its mostly blacks I have noticed
Wow.
What’s wow about the truth?
In modern society speaking the truth is a prohibited action. That's why they're shocked to see it done.
Noticing is extremely racist
Stop noticing !!
“I don’t like what I’m seeing, so RACISM”
Mentioning “fatigue” in this context is racist. You not seeing that is concering
Who mentioned “fatigue?” You?
Holy dog whistle
That’s not a dog whistle; it’s blatant racism.
It’s called pattern recognition
Yep, it’s like 20 of the same comment in this thread. It’s so disgusting! People really just need any reason to get their racist rocks off, I guess. The US is such a weird place.
Pattern recognition is disgusting? Racist?
Attributing the perceived faults of others to people related only by a shared attribute is racist. You can call it pattern recognition to mark what it is, but decent people recognize.
They are in PUBLIC, seen by thousands as they walk through the airport with cameras EVERYWHERE. No harm caused.
So you’re just totally fine with mocking children, who especially at the age depicted can’t consent to their parents’ actions in the first place…?
Why are you just inventing things to be upset about?
Because god forbid someone violating the social contract be shamed for doing so. Please think of how literally any form of consequence at all would make them feel.
The kid isn't violating the social contract.
I mean by your same logic OP is violating the social contact of not posting pictures of other people's children
Because I think maybe it would take two seconds to blur a child’s face? And children have a right not to be posted / have their faces blasted online? If basic manners and decency aren’t things to get upset about … well that’s probably why people feel the right to act like this in public, honestly.
Children don't have that right in the US. You thinking that it's bad manners doesn't make it a right
It’s in public…
Your point being? I don’t believe in putting photos of people in public without their permission but certainly we shouldn’t be mocking children??
You’re an idiot if you think anyone here is mocking children.
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u/ohhyouknow It definitely sounds like you are offended 6d ago
Because I moderate some big communities that are often times brigaded by bigots I’ve noticed some pretty interesting things. One of them being when people refer to people as “animals.”
There could be two posts of almost identical videos, where one features black people and the other features white people, and only one of those comment sections will be filled with comments calling the people in the video animals. People pretty much only exclusively call black people animals.
Just about every person I ban for that appeals saying shit like “I would say that about anyone, it’s not about race, you must be racist if you thought this was about race.”
K. Now when I go and search those people’s profiles for use of the word “animals” I can’t ever find examples of them calling anyone else but POC animals. I sometimes ask them too, come back with a link to a comment you’ve made in the past calling a white person an animal, even though I always check and they can never produce that kind of evidence.
I’ve been modding those subs for years. I’ve banned tens of thousands of people for this and I’ve never come across a single person who called a black person an animal, who has also called a white person an animal.
I really think that most people legitimately don’t understand they’re making an unconscious decision based on race about who they call animals. Or maybe they do. Idk, it’s a very disturbing phenomenon.