If someone says something along the lines of "it's not racist to like ice cream", their statement is true, but there's a 99% chance they're the kind of person who'd somehow find a racist way to like ice cream.
@anon_opin welcome to Billy-Bob Robbins, where you can choose from 14 different kinds of vanilla.
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Grice's Maxims suggest missing context about the extremely racist thing they just got called out for which they are now framing as being about them liking ice cream.
@petealexharris this is about Milkshake Duck, isn't it?
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@anon_opin @http_error_418 It’s “Turkey in the Straw” isn’t it?
@anon_opin reminds me of Richard Hammond's weird comment about men eating ice cream
@anon_opin I live in Denmark, a country that colonized Greenland, and where until 2021 you could buy an ice cream named "Giant Eskimo". The manufacturer changed its name (to "Blackcurrant Bar"), and you can guess exactly what kind of people threw a fit about the name change while loudly insisting the original totally wasn't racist.
@anon_opin Ice cream is mostly not racist (if we ignore the system of production and history of sugar and dairy). The segregated ice cream parlor of the 1950s, which some contemporary ice cream parlors attempt to replicate architecturally, kinda racist. Dolly Madison? Slave owner, totally racist.

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Its like how racists decided to embrace drinking milk as part of white identity. I don’t get how they manage.

@anon_opin I'm trying—and failing hard—to even *contrive* a situation where saying "it's not racist to like ice cream" isn't a really weird, awkward, and completely sus thing to say.