this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2025
403 points (97.4% liked)

Leopards Ate My Face

3725 readers
143 users here now

Rules:

Also feel free to check out !leopardsatemyface@lemm.ee (also active).

Icon credit C. Brück on Wikimedia Commons.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 36 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

A friend of mine was raised Republican; he'd say, fiscal Republican. He was certain that people without healthcare could just get treated for free for whatever they needed and that POC brought it all on themselves. Generally, he thought that people were nice and good and would take care of each other as long as the people in need weren't miscreants.

Then he met a nice black girl, got married, and had some kids.

Now he's seeing how they're treated differently when they're not together, and how he's treated differently when he's with her.

How family is now all at odds as the grandparents are still in the old camp and aren't sympathetic to his findings and struggles.

The propaganda is hard to work around. They want to believe that there's good and evil in the world and good prevails. It's what their churches tell them. It's not until each one of them individually experiences hardship that they realize that something is off, and they still remain confused as to what's real and what's now.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago

Classic conservative. Doesn't care until it affects them.

[–] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 41 points 1 day ago

Liberals Warned Me About MAGA’s Racism. I Didn’t Believe Them—Until ~~Now~~ it affected me, personally

A tale as old as time

[–] spirinolas@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Leopards are already stuffed, but the grub is so tasty they'll have just one more bite!

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 2 points 7 hours ago

“It’s just a narcissist, sir. It’s narcissist-thin.”

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 1 points 14 hours ago

This source is terrible.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I wish there was a poem about what happens when they start rounding up undesirables while you stand by and do nothing, and then they come for you in the end.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago

First they came for the socialists, and I said get those fuckers—because socialist hate America. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I said good riddance —because I am a class traitor. Then they came for the Jews, and I said about time —because I am a piece of shit. Then they came for me—and I was as confused as an lamb to the slaughter.

[–] FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Funny enough, there actually is. A poem by Martin Niemöller. Full thing is:

"Y'all are dumb

Thought you were part of the in crowd, without a doubt

You fucked around

Now you'll find out"

[–] WanakaTree@lemm.ee 6 points 22 hours ago

Ngl had me in the first half

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Etterra 39 points 1 day ago

Well then you're an idiot and deserve whatever MAGA does to you. You literally asked them to do it.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Feeding time for the leopards.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 204 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I’ve often thought about that moment—the unnecessary injection of racial anxiety into my otherwise normal school day—when I think about the irony of progressive identity politics. My parents, both born in India but educated in America, would laugh about their well-intentioned but misguided friends who, in their eagerness to ward off the idea of “otherness,” ended up contributing to it.

So the people who knew the country well enough to see what was coming told you what was coming. You ignored them, your parents laughed at them.

But then a few days ago, I opened X to see my feed populated with anti-Indian vitriol—calling the country where my parents were born “filthy” and its people “filthy and undesirable.” Some condemned these comments but many others agreed, and still others criticized the critics for crying racism. But I could see it for what it was: raw bigotry.

Huh.

But now, we must all reckon with an ugly part of the MAGA agenda they did not realize existed.

Everyone who's head wasn't buried in the sand or laughing about "the irony of progressive politics" realized they existed.

And so, if Trump’s win is a revolutionary moment for MAGA, the people who voted for the revolution need to define which MAGA they believe in. Does “making America great again” revive the ideals of this country—or the grievances of a group of “native-born” Americans? If MAGA chooses the latter, those on the left who were dismissed as hysterical for crying racism will be vindicated in the worst way.

Whew, still not getting it I see. MAGA has made that choice already, and it hasn't moved one bit during the time MAGA has existed.

I didn’t want to fracture that pride with the news of an ugly turn in our country’s politics. How do you tell someone the country they’ve loved for 50 years is harboring a growing faction that wishes he’d never come?

I think you can only tell them to pay attention next time and not laugh at those trying to give you a clue.

My grandfather voted for Trump three times. Now, part of that movement is calling immigrants like him ‘filthy.’

Your grandfather empowered them and is part of the problem.

Damn, it's only January and my schadenfreude gland is already getting fatigued.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 104 points 1 day ago

Mfw I realize they don’t consider me “one of the good ones”

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

India has its own problems with class/caste and the language that surrounds it. Officially it's no longer in play, but there are knock-on effects.

“filthy and undesirable.”

This already means something in the old caste system, specifically about the lowest "backwards caste" people ("untouchables"). Not to say that everyone involved has old-world bigotry in their hearts, but for those that do, this is likely an especially cutting insult.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] EisFrei@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago

"But surely I'm going to be an honorary aryan?!"

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 163 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Apparently the writer has barely paid any attention to what's been going on over the last 10 years...

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 155 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They were, this is classic "It's not racism until they're racist against me" development. It wasn't racist when it was against only Mexicans/blacks tho.

[–] GorGor@startrek.website 11 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

This was my take as well. They only realized the MAGA folks were racist when they called Indians filthy.

When they were calling mexicans rapists and murders 😴

When they said africa was full of shithole countries 😴

I could go on, but it is kinda exhausting. Coming up next is the working class people when they start getting called white trash. Its coming once they consolidate enough power and dont need them anymore.

[–] atempuser23@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

So… Republican

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago

The right being poorly educated isn't a quip; it's a designation. One they can neither accept nor escape.

load more comments (1 replies)

But they voted republican with a soft R

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 119 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Her turning point:

But then a few days ago, I opened X to see my feed populated with anti-Indian vitriol—calling the country where my parents were born “filthy” and its people “filthy and undesirable.” Some condemned these comments but many others agreed, and still others criticized the critics for crying racism. But I could see it for what it was: raw bigotry.

Same old story:

My life is filled with immigrants from India and Nigeria and Lebanon and the Dominican Republic—many of whom are definitionally the “working class”—who voted for Trump. They are family members and neighbors, cafe owners who greet me by name, doctors, cleaning ladies, the mailman, my Cape Verdean babysitter-turned-friend of many years. All of them opposed illegal immigration while defending Trump from critics: “He’s not anti-legal immigration, he’s anti-illegal immigration,” they’d said. “I’m pro-legal immigration—make it easier to do it the lawful way,” they’d say.

I will never understand how people can't see it's thinly veiled racism when it comes from the GOP.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 77 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I will never understand how people can’t see it’s thinly veiled racism when it comes from the GOP.

They're morons. Wanna bet a lot of them were swayed by anti-abortion or anti-trans rhetoric? If not that then, 'demonrats are going to turn this country communist' propaganda?

[–] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Paying attention is gay, woke, and demonic.

load more comments (6 replies)
[–] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 73 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

Whaaaaaat? You mean the bigotry and vitriol of the GOP isn't limited to Mexicans, Hatians, Chinese, Guatemalans, Columbians, Cubans, Women, Gays, Transgender, Liberals, Muslims, Jews, Palestinians, Athiests, Americans wanting affordable healthcare, Americans wanting a living wage, Americans wanting affordable housing, Americans wanting renewable clean energy, Americans wanting a clean environment, immigrants, healthcare workers fighting a global pandemic, journalists, hecklers, and generally anybody who does not vote Republican?

Please add any groups that I forgot.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 31 minutes ago

Please add any groups that I forgot.

I think it's faster to list the people who aren't targeted; because it's ever more segregation all the way down. It's one 'other' group after the other, until it's just "rich, white, fat, lazy, male, narcissists who are me."

That poem's last lines should be "and then they came for my wife, but I was born correctly and so I understood. And then we came for me, and I didn't see it coming." Look at how donald turned on his co-conspirators when it came down to it all -- the entirety of othering pares down to narcissism.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Communists, socialists, the educated, the poor, the homeless, vegetarians, people with hair coloring (except blond)

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't forget military veterans, especially the ones that got captured and tortured, or sick or disabled as a result of their service. There's also treating Puerto Ricans like they're not part of the US.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago

Hrm what did you miss...

At this point, basically all academics and scientists of pretty much any field who are not connected to a conservative think tank or corporate astroturf advocacy group...

Teachers...

Black Americans...

The Homeless...

Anyone that wants to watch porn...

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 112 points 1 day ago (4 children)

How brave. Going out and broadcasting to the world just how dense you are.

[–] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 90 points 1 day ago

It's more than that, though. It's broadcasting that the writer is also a racist xenophobe because they didn't care until it affected their specific racial demographic.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Wisdom has been chasing you, but you have managed to outrun it"

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago

"But then a few days ago...."

What, you crawled out from under a rock?

[–] GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago

How do you tell someone the country they’ve loved for 50 years is harboring a growing faction that wishes he’d never come?

I think these three words in this sentence says a lot about the author. My guess is they felt that America didn't really have a racist population or felt it was small? When in reality it's always been quite large but mostly quite. Where now this population doesn't need to whisper anymore and they are seeing it for the first time.

[–] PDFuego@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago

Vivek fucks up recently so the racism against Indians surges, and now this person finally can't ignore it any more. "Oh wow they don't just hate Mexicans, Muslims, Haitians, illegal immigrants, and so on, they hate people like ME too?" And she's so deeply affected that she... doesn't say anything about it to her Trump voting family members for risk of upsetting them. You're a day late and a dollar short, lady. Or a decade late, a decade full of telling people who were warning you the whole time that they're wrong.

Do we just have to wait for the infighting to swallow up all of the token "good ones" one by one then try to pick up the pieces afterwards?

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

The only desi people MAGA likes are tech bros who bring in the dollars, or insane people who are able to keep themselves off the radar by causing damage to the libs they dislike even more, Kash Patel, Ajit Pai, Vivek Ramaswarmy, and that one maga movie guy Im forgetting the name of, who was either sanctioned or imprisoned, and I believe pardoned by trump the first time.

for everyone else, you're just like everyone else, you're a vote, and then after you've outlived your usefulness by giving them the vote, its back to leopards at my face.

[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Action, I would like you to introduce you to Consequences...

[–] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

They had money to be able to live as the middle class, and thought that brought them acceptance. They didn't realize they were lulled into voting R only to be discarded after the vote.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 55 points 1 day ago (3 children)
load more comments (3 replies)
[–] Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Variations of this narrative are commonplace. Back the spew until it happens to you.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

Back the spew until it happens to you.

I want this on a bumper sticker with a cop badge on one side and a trump logo on the other.

load more comments
view more: next ›