Evidence it sent racists into a tailspin of racism:

Assertion that he was not actually American citizen, born in Kenya.

Assertion that Michele Obama is actually trans and their daughters are adopted. Joan Rivers just made it worse. Treating black women as “masculine” has been a long and well-worn racist trope.

Tan suit. Don’t have to say much more about this one. Tons of people have worn tan suits without being hassled about it. I wonder why they hassled Obama specifically about it?

In early July 2010, the North Iowa Tea Party (NITP) posted a billboard showing a photo of Adolf Hitler with the heading “National Socialism”, one of Barack Obama with the heading “Democrat Socialism”, and one of Vladimir Lenin with the heading “Marxist Socialism”, all three marked with the word “change” and the statement “Radical leaders prey on the fearful and naive”.

Google is doing a pretty damn good job of throwing these ones down the memory hole, but there were a massive number of photoshops of Obama as a monkey. I also remember conservatives acting like it wasn’t a big deal because there had been a photoshop of George W. Bush as a monkey floating around since around 2004.

This was when he was running for President and while he was President. Those are just examples off the top of my head.

I don’t even like Obama. He let war criminals off the hook and then legalized and codified the worst excesses of the War on Terror under Bush.

But it’s clear as hell that his mere existence made conservatives lose their fucking minds and they’ve never come back from it.

Also, at least two of these examples have full fucking wikipedia pages for the controversy alone. It sent conservatives into such a tailspin that we have to have encyclopedia entries about these events.

EDIT: Only somewhat related, but after 4 years of Obama, the racists were fucking furious at a film like Django Unchained. So many who were like “I like Quentin Tarantino, but I’m not watching some shit that is racist against white people!” Yeah, they only like Tarantino films filled with white people dropping the N-bomb repeatedly.

The capability to defederate is half the point of the fediverse. So a spez or a musk or a zuckerberg can't make things shitty for everyone.

You can run your own instance and federate with everything, or you can join an instance that does the same. No one is stopping you; that's what freeedom looks like.

The rest of your comment reads like this: I can't follow the conversation, which is about an instance I'm not a member of defederating from another instance I'm not a member of, as a result of some hateful comments about a group I'm not a member of. So I'm just going to disagree on principle even though the defederation won't impact my instance or me personally in any way.

The racist connotations about the lab I knew about, but I didn’t think it made it less true.

That being said, I just checked wikipedia:

Most scientists agree that, as with many other pandemics in human history,[1][2][3] the virus is likely derived from a bat-borne virus transmitted to humans via another animal in nature or during wildlife trade such as that in food markets.[11] Many other explanations, including several conspiracy theories, have been proposed.[12][13][14] Some scientists and politicians have speculated that SARS-CoV-2 was accidentally released from a laboratory. This theory is not supported by evidence.[15]

SARS-CoV-2 has close genetic similarity to multiple previously identified bat coronaviruses, suggesting it crossed over into humans from bats

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_COVID-19

and I think I remember seeing a study that showed the similarity of the sequence to other known sequences and it wasn’t that dramatic a change.

This is a rem only household