• Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    That’s different, he’s one of the good ones. He’s just down on his luck and going through hard times, he’s not a lazy freeloader just taking money on the government dole.

    Those are two completely different situations, don’t you know. One happens to him after all.

    (I’ve literally heard the first part verbatim multiple times in conversations like that. Its mind blowing how close they get to understanding.)

    • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      It’s funny, both haha and sad. The first time I heard the “one of the good ones” line was from my racist uncle about the black guy he worked with. As the years went on it became apparent every black person my uncle got to know, at all, was “one of the good ones”. One time I told my uncle that every black person he ever really met turned out to be “a good one”, so, like, maybe that’s because he is wrong?

      That wasn’t the reason of course.