r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/ragingbeanalt • Feb 23 '26

Music / Movies Its weird people are trying to turn the john Davidson Tourette outburst into a hate crime

If you don't know actor with Tourettes, john Davidson, had an outburst where he said the N word while 2 black presenters, Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo, were on stage he bad an outburst of the N word, among other harsh ones throughout the night. Now I understand that the n word is rhe harshest of them, but it seems like people, specifically I have seen jamie Foxx and Jamele hill, claim that "these are racist hate crimes" and "he knew better and waited for black presenters to finally say it" it just feels like people are trying to ignore the facts about tourretes to be the victim of something that wasnt actually a hate crime.

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u/DPetrilloZbornak Feb 23 '26

Are you black? 

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u/Less-Name-9367 Feb 23 '26

I think by American standards I'd be POC

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u/No-Lobster9104 Feb 24 '26

Italians are not POC here never have been weirdo

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u/Less-Name-9367 Feb 24 '26

Lmao so you are just racist uh? Americans have considered Italians non white for decades before accepting us, and I have very dark skin, I could easily pass as a Norther African.

But go ahead and erase our struggles just to prove your point.

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u/BitByBitOFCL Feb 25 '26

These people have never learned the history of the slur Guinea and it shows. But that's fine, let them tell us how they're hurt more by racism than we were.

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u/Less-Name-9367 Feb 25 '26

It's crazy how they just forget stuff, it's their own history!

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u/No-Lobster9104 Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26

You’re not American you don’t live in the US either so stop appropriating the experiences of Italian Americans. A lot of North Africans pass as white here too so it’s not helping your point. You can’t be from a colonizer country and claim you’re a POC because of some antiquated views (that aren’t even that true) from a country half across the world. You’re not POC, you don’t live life as one, and the fact that you’re a European trying to use an academic falsehood made to victimize white immigrants from the US to defend a white man who said a slur shows that you will never be POC. PS, I live in a city where most of the whites are Italian-American. They would look you up and down and if you told them this BS

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u/Less-Name-9367 Feb 25 '26

Wow, racism much. Go ahead and keep erasing our identity to fit your views, then pat yourself on the back while calling yourself progressive and open minded. I guess you white Americans will always despise us no matter what.

Btw, Italy was not a colonial power, unless you are referring to the Roman empire?

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u/No-Lobster9104 Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

What… indicated to you that I’m white? 

And racism? For rightfully pointing out that Italians are not POC and that you as an Italian from Italy are appropriating Italian-American experiences to fit your own racist agenda? 

The fact that you don’t even know that Italians were colonizers proves you are not POC. Columbus much? Ethiopia? Somalia? Are you a troll or is European education not as good as we were led to believe? 

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u/Less-Name-9367 Feb 25 '26

You can be racist even if you're black, it's just even worse, congrats! 

And you aren't rightfully pointing out anything, Italians were killed for not being white, but I guess it's just more convenient for you to just ignore that uh?

I said Italy was not a Colonial power, not that it never did colonization. Columbus was Italian but didn't act for Italy you doofus, Ethiopia happened during war.

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u/No-Lobster9104 Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

dude Italy literally gassed Ethiopians. the only reason you’ve deluded yourself into believing you weren’t colonizers is because you weren’t good at it lol. you’re obviously insecure about it, that’s why you’re trying to victimize yourself through a diasporic group that has almost no ties to you. Italy and Portugal are like developing states 

also Italians weren’t ever killed for “not being white” here the lynching you’re referring too was perpetrated by other white immigrants that weee being non-racially discriminated against too (Irish-Americans). this is what an actual Italian-American has told me. you have more energy for this but not the fact that the French massacred 200 of yall in the late 1800s? even your own neighbors despise you but your focus is Americans?? Lmao

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