I want to apologize if I offended any PoC, I didnā€™t read the greentext correctly and ā€œbasketball Americanā€ slipped through. Iā€™ve tried to keep my posts as clean as possible and will continue to do so. Itā€™s entirely my mistake and Iā€™m sorry.

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      Its fourchan, its the most politically correct term they could come up with. I m honestly shocked there is nothing worse in there.

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        Calling that politically correct is a bigger laugh than how blatantly racist it was in the first place.

        Should have called themselves swimmer American for consistency.

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                Sorry, the whips? I donā€™t know enough about NASCAR to get that joke, maybe.

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                White people love nascar for the same reason they love millionaires. They think I could be that and then drunkenly drive their lifted truck home and kill a family with a NASCAR sticker on the back of their truck on the way back from the bar while they listen to a country song from a different millionaire telling them they just gotta roll up their sleeves and work every day like the singer does

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      Imagine being upset that your 4chan greentext forum has racism in the post. You canā€™t eat your cake and have it, too. That just comes with the territory

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        My guy, even Iā€™m not going to defend it. I thought it meant something different as so much of the greentext seemed absurd for the sake of absurdity. Iā€™ve posted several greentexts without racism or sexism, so itā€™s far from impossible. Just because something is ubiquitous doesnā€™t make it okay. Now Iā€™m stuck deciding between deleting the post or keeping it up with an apology to acknowledge my mistake.

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          Holy shit you sound like a gigantic pussy dude itā€™s a greentext nobody should be coming here without expecting to encounter some regular 4chan shit

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            I like to see this place as the distilled decency of 4chan and everyone else seems to agree to the same. Lemmyā€™s not big on unfiltered racism.

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      Bro, thatā€™s the nicest name his years of 4chan addict brain couldā€™ve come up with. 4chan is known for using the hard R N-word very very liberally.

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      Golfer? Polo player? Whatā€™s the whitest sport imagineable in the most offensive way?

      (Oh yes colonialism)

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      I canā€™t be the only one that notices the sheer hypocrisy of being offended by racism and deciding to be a racist in turn, right?

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      Here I was assuming from that line that this was not in the united states so it was notable that the man was american and also that be was wearing a basketball outfit. Then i thought it was weird they were talking about carrying given that it wasnā€™t the US and then I just forgot the basketball thing

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      I genuinely read that sentence as, a famous basketball player.

      But calling someone ā€œbaseball Americanā€ is fucking rude.