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		LegitShady on July 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nearly half of the tap water in the US is contamin... >The vast majority of readers can quickly make the connection between 'politically powerful' and 'rich white people' assuming they live in America. Sounds like intentional racism to me. If you want to say the rich and powerful why wouldn't you just say that instead of committing to racist comments?

Paul-Craft on July 11, 2023 [–]

The US has a long, long history of racism. It's not racist to point that out.

LegitShady on July 11, 2023 | [–]

Saying white when you mean "rich and powerful" is intentional racism.

Paul-Craft on July 16, 2023 | | [–]

It also happens to be pretty factual. There are somewhere in the neighborhood of 700 billionaires in the US. Take a guess how many of them are black.

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