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[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

90% of them wouldn’t give a single shit if the ATF was only shooting black people over the laws they created specifically to oppress black people.

Federal Gun laws weren't "specifically created to oppress black people." Some State level ones were but the Federal ones apply to everybody and Conservatives have always hated them and the Agency that enforces them. The undeniable fact is that Ol' Whitey hated the ATF before BIPOC folks even knew that the 2nd Amendment applied to them.

This idea that literally everything from laws to the reactionaries who are against them is racially motivated is one of the dumbest fucking things to appear online in the past decade.

Get it straight, there is no struggle but the class struggle.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

...the Federal ones apply to everybody...

That's how the racist ones work, my man. The laws apply to "everybody", but somehow most of the enforcement is on black people. Black people aren't in prison disproportionately because the law says "black people carrying drugs is illegal".

Get it straight, there is no struggle but the class struggle.

Ahh. "No issues, but white issues."

[–] Promethiel 9 points 8 months ago

Get it straight, there is no struggle but the class struggle.

BIPOC here. Do I do that before or after I liquidate the useful idiots who got the brown shirt on for people-like-me-killing without questioning their billionaire masters?

Don't get it twisted yourself. You're not wrong in the nuance. But nuance is exactly what they took out back and shot first. Doesn't make the lies lethal.

I get your anger, as the stupid gets in the way of real conversations regarding race--that is, that it does not matter, class does.

By design dude. Yell out and disengage because of the "stupid" and you too become an unwitting catspaw in the class war.

Fuck the ATF. ACAB Fuck over reach that takes autonomy for anything other than protecting the autonomy of others.

Fuck the dragons but more than anything else, fuck the willingly complacent and the empathy pretender.

[–] SupraMario 2 points 8 months ago

As a lefty pro-2a, you nailed it. We gun owners don't hate the ATF because "white people get shot" we hate them because they're fucking thugs who create their own rules.