• Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zip
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    5 days ago

    Ok, i reconstruct the slur in my mind and…what the fuck is that even mean? It sounds like another one of those word salad by intoxicated individual that mean absolutely nothing but also trying to be profoundly racist.

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      He’s saying billionaires spend their money ostentatiously, foolishly, lavishly like they never saw money before. “New rich” would be a comparable term.

      Still, not sure I completely get it.

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        5 days ago

        In a spectacular display of racist logic this chud is saying that black people aren’t supposed to have inherited wealth, therefore all rich black people are nouveau riche (new rich). Which means that what they are saying is that spending with abandon is something only a newly rich black person would do.

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        Still, not sure I completely get it.

        Same. One legitimate criticism of how rich people interact with the economy is that rich people have a tendency to hoard their money instead of pumping it back into the economy. Spending all your dough may look tacky and ostentatious, but it creates more jobs than piling it up in a vault.

        So this guy’s thinking is contorted in fascinating ways. I am starting to wonder, though, does being a bad thinker make you more likely to be racist? Or does racism harm your thinking? Both?

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          Spending all your dough may look tacky and ostentatious, but it creates more jobs than piling it up in a vault.

          Won’t somebody think of the mega-yacht industry?!

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        5 days ago

        So like covering everything with gold and putting your name in giant allcaps on them?

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      I think you have to go several levels of racism deep to even understand it. Like the (censored) phrase “I don’t hate black people; I hate N-----s” has to make enough sense you understand the “distinction” being made. Then you translate that distinction and apply it to some sort of “good billionaire” and you sort of get his claim.

      I think?

      I certainly could have missed his point, if any; I’m not sure it was worth catching.

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      5 days ago

      Replace the word with “inferior.” Now you understand what a racist means when they say it.