I’m eagerly awaiting articles, news items, TV reports, workplace meetings, posts and comments about the dehumanization and demonization of white doctors who were accused of kiling black babies for racist reasons. But they won’t happen, as we all know.
The difference between this race libel and the cat meme (which, as I said before, I don’t support) is that nobody is forced to watch and praise the cat meme at work. The “white doctor killers” hoax, on the other hand, was used to badger white people in state-run workplaces. Imagine having to sit through years of cat memes at work and being forced to praise them loudly. Is it OK to inflict that on people against their will? To hold their livelihood hostage to be able to do this?
I personally don’t think it’s OK, whether it’s the cat meme or the white doctor hoax. Unfortunately, we have half the country thinking it’s not only OK but necessary to force their colleagues, neighbors and compatriots to affirm hoaxes.
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