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[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

πŸ‘ Good, good. Let's round up all the racists and send them to Rwanda. πŸ‘

[–] WilhelmStroker@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Either Rwanda or stick them all on Bibby Stockholm.

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why not both? Anchor the barge in the middle of lake Kivu.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months ago

Stick a few cameras in there, and could be a new reality show. They get booted off by being less racist than the others, and allowed to go home, they have to have an unracist off.

It would be like a wholesome version of The Island

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yup, they think it is perfectly safe over there, so they shouldn't mind.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's actually a lovely place.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Good, send them all there.

[–] baggins@beehaw.org 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So, she's sorry because she 'acted on misguided information.' If the information had been correct does that mean she wouldn't have been sorry?

[–] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 28 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I don't think she is sorry at all.

"She’s a good person and she’s not racist" Says her husband.

It's pretty racist to call for burning alive a bunch of innocent people because they aren't white. Like Nazi-level genocidal racism.

[–] baggins@beehaw.org 13 points 3 months ago

Exactly. Sorry because she got called out on it.

She'll quite happily take money off of the parents of the kids she looks after. Quite happy to be served by non white people, quite happy to have her food prepared, to be treated in hospital, make her clothes, make music she listens to, pretty much everything, the hypocritical cow.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It’s pretty racist to call for burning alive a bunch of innocent people because they aren’t white. Like Nazi-level genocidal racism.

It's always possible she's a homicidal maniac who wants to see lots of people die no matter what the colour of their skin is.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago

We live in hope.

[–] AlbertSpangler@lemmings.world 5 points 3 months ago

She absolutely is a racist, clearly and demonstrably so by her own actions and opinions, and I think the media should be willing to say that

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago

I can see why the husband of a loathsome racist might think that.

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

β€œMass deportation now, set fire to all the f****** hotels full of the b******* for all I care... If that makes me racist, so be it.”

Calling for mass ethnic cleansing, arson, murder, and admitting to being racist. Nothing more than a little oopsie moment right?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months ago

She certainly got the intellect of a racist. What dumbass idiot do you have to be to do that, obviously you're going to get questioned by the police it's not going to achieve anything why say it?

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago

Perfectly understandable, i mean back in the twitter days i used to use it to yell at Yarra Trams when they cancelled me tram. Same thing, no?

^s / s for fuck's sake^

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 3 months ago

This has been an invaluable lesson for me in realising how wrong and inaccurate things appearing on social media can be

Now I'm not a high profile wife of a politician so perhaps I don't understand, but I would have thought it would have been obvious that it would not be a good idea to get your world news from the likes of Tommy Robson. The convicted criminal lying liar who lies. You know the guy that was arrested on terrorism charges.

I guess I'm just simple though.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Racist tory, what a surprise!