Racism on Hexbear 'The Germanic brain is prone to sexual assault'

It doesn't matter their political system or economic alignment, authoritarians always look for unproven or racist ideas to divide others away from themselves. It doesn't matter what race or for which political idea, racism is always bad and corrupts all ideas.

It’s easier than accepting that all people are capable of good and evil. It’s so easy to decide villains are born that way because then the targets are easy and you’re definitely a good person.
well said. Shame they don't see that

I’m just going to continue to be happy I don’t know what Hexbear is…

Probably best to add it to your instance blocklist now and nip that shit in the bud before you do.
- They're on .world, which defederated ages ago.
- They actually have some reasonable people though so I don't see a need to block the entire instance. (They know Linux, self hosting and privacy pretty well.)
You've likely interacted with some of their terminally-online dungeon denizens before. They have authoritarian takes that would embarrass fascists, but they call everyone else Nazis. Truly a special and unique crowd over there.
- I don't know what could be worse than fascists

What did Rammstein do again?

Gave groupies better seating so they could have easy access to them after shows. Potentially drugging some of them although that was never proven.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rammstein#Concert_misconduct_allegations
- I saw them in Philly a few years ago. At the end of the show they had their cam feed point to women to flash the camera. Whoever was directing the feed kept cutting back to one woman who was obviously not comfortable with it, definitely left a bad taste in my mouth
- It finally became news that rock bands take advantage of groupies? What's next? A rapper actually murdering someone? A polka tuba player eating an entire cake?
- Well that's disappointing.
- But Ramstein won in court and the people aren't allowed to spread that stuff anymore.

Originally posted by @Fontasia@feddit.nl but the post didn't focus on this

If I pay someone to do a sex crime to me, do I get in trouble or spare them the trouble?

Unfortunately illegal is illegal so, yes, they probably would be prosecuted. It’s the “crime” bit that matters. I think there was a German (lol) cannibal who consensually ate some bits of people. Prosecuted.
- He had a really great TV though.
- Well if you pay them you give them your consent, sooooooooo.
- Awwww. No liberty.
You both get in trouble, that's prostitution!
- LMAO!
  I'm an idiot.

They're being ironic and edgy. Probably.

The question is only whether you consider ironic racism (in this case mocking 19th and 20th century "race science" with reversals of focus) to be racism regardless.

I don't think so, but there's also always elements of Poe's Law to consider. Not to mention that, for example, British and American racists literally said these things unironically about Germans, reaching fever pitches in WW1.

If you say any group of people are prone to rape because of their brains, then that is racist.
- Do you, for example, think Robert Downey Jr's blackface in Tropic Thunder was racism or a criticism of racism?
You should look at US WWII propaganda cartoons. It is very "interesting"
During that time the US rounded up all Asians and put them in internment camps for "there own safety." Let's just say they didn't feel very safe living in a prison. I actually knew someone who grew up in one of the internment camps. She didn't want to talk about the experience so I'm assuming it was unpleasant.
Long story short is that no country is free from the danger of race theory.
- During that time the US rounded up all Asians and put them in internment camps for “there own safety.”
  Japanese-Americans only. Chinese-Americans were actually highly praised by US propaganda of the time.
  Racism is arbitrary and insane.
We all know words can't really express sarcasm or other underlying feelings or meanings very clearly. Without a /s your only able to assume if the they did or didn't actually mean that.
- So what's the joke? Are they're pretending to be racist without the topic (rammstein) ever mentioning race to begin with?
  I don't buy that. 'Please excuse me. I'm just going to be sarcastically racist without anyone previously mentioning race!' -- It's straight out of the alt-right playbook; when called out, claim it's a sarcastic, ironic joke!
- when you are with your peer group and use sarcasm, you probably also don’t label it as such.
- Right, but there's enough social context going on to generally assume that stans for the philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles probably don't actually consider Germans a form of untermensch.

What race is German?

You can be racist against the citizens of a country. The "race" (what a shit word for humans) isn't of matter to be racist.
- Technically since racism is prejudice + power, we'd have to know they belong to whatever ethnic group holds power to know it's racist, it might be prejudice instead. The race actually does matter according to the sociological definition, that's why in the US they say only white people can be racist, in China it'd be Han Chinese, etc.
  Edit: Seriously, I'm not making it up, if you disagree fine, but you disagree with sociologists not me (who is not a sociologist, but merely took two classes on it in my youth.)
  Here see for yourself:
  https://sociologydictionary.org/racism/
  (noun) Any attitude, belief, or behavior used to explain and justify prejudice and discrimination against racial or ethnic minorities, on the basis of perceived inferiority.
  By definition, any attitude, belief, or behavior used to explain and justify prejudice on a racial or ethnic majority is not included.
  I literally got suspended for saying the stuff you guys are, good thing we aren't in American High School or College right now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germans
note that we say racism when we actually mean discrimination against an ethnicity because fuck you
You're like those Nazis saying: "What race is black?" "What race is Islam?"
- Yeah Islam isn't a race either. It is a religion. And what point are you trying to make exactly? It sounds like you're mad that I asked what race German is. What race are you then, American?
Germanic
- I'm not though, I'm just depressed.
You cracked me up. I'm assuming this was intended as a joke.