❌Bad:
This racist dude was good at kicking people in the head.

✅Good:
This great American hero was good at kicking people in the head!

❌Bad:
Birtherism is a super racist movement that led to the alt-right, Project 2025, and where we are today.

✅Good:
I like Walker Texas Ranger!

@mekkaokereke I think my skintone puts me in the appropriate category though, so allow me to say it:

Good fucking riddance. Quit being hateful pieces of shit folks.

@mekkaokereke as I’ve gotten older I’ve found white people’s inability to cope with the realization that the casual racism/sexism we were exposed to as children was not, in fact, a universal experience obnoxious

Constantly talking about “childhood ruined” and all that and completely missing the point that this wasn’t a secret, we’re just ignorant and late to the party

Like, it was always this way, we just grew up in an environment where we didn’t see that (and often reaped the benefit of it)

@mekkaokereke

glad somebody said something, i was stunned to see this dude trending today on Mastodon, yeah, he died & all but frankly he's been dead to me for decades

@mekkaokereke It's never a good sign when quoting someone is deemed offensive rather than seeing the quote itself as offensive.

Charlie Kirk? He had recently said that dead kids were just the cost of his being able to own his guns. Shrug. So, he would've been fine with being murdered with a gun. Shrug. Just the cost of others being able to hold onto their guns.

That people would suddenly become outraged by his own words being used? Crazy talk.

@mekkaokereke "Chuck Norris stared evil in the eye and it went into hiding."

- more like "...stared evil in the eye and kept on brushing his teeth."

@mekkaokereke "[yada yada] If nothing else let my children and my children's children say we were justified...[yada yada]"

Because when someone tries to do something good, that's what's going through the mind of the person attempting the good, right?

*Top on the list: I want folks decades down the line to consider me justified*

Not "Suffering was avoided" or "People live better lives."

Nope.

How do you say your motives are questionable and you know it without explicitly saying so?

@mekkaokereke also pals with netanyahu

https://x.com/netanyahu/status/2035005998792950052

@mekkaokereke One of my coworkers made one of those "Chuck Norris is so strong" jokes once, and I said he was a pretty bad guy so I didn't care to lionize him.

He said, "Just because he disagrees with you doesn't mean he's a bad guy."

I shot back with, "Depends on what we disagree on." I never heard another Chuck Norris joke from him. So, mission accomplished I guess.

sigh I bet he says one on Monday, though.

@mekkaokereke
Didnt know😕. Thank you for sharing this! 🖖

I find it hard to accept this amount of racism and to accept the acceptance of it all around. But this makes it so important to open your eyes to the issue. We cant solve it as long as we CHOOSE not to see it.

@mekkaokereke

I never really knew much about Chuck Norris. He had a television show, I think. And I think he knew martial arts. If it weren't for the jokes based on him, I would have thought that Chuck Norris was a second baseman with the Minnesota Twins who then joined the hated New York Yankees.

I watched the video. In it, there is a quote that is misattributted to Edmunde Burke. The misattributted quote is "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Lots of people misattribute it, that's not what is notable. What is notable is that Chuck Norris says "good men and women".

How DEI/woke of him! I wonder why he wasn't pilloried by the then-teabaggers (remember them?!) for that.