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Bophades 13 points ago +13 / -0

One easy way to tell when these stories are fake is that they always act like people on the outside can see their personal self-concept. You might guess she's partially black by looking at her, but she could just as easily be anything else. Even if there were roving gangs of white supremacists looking for black people to attack, they wouldn't be going for her and screaming the gamer word.

She clearly identifies with being black, regardless of how much she is, so she's convinced that everyone looks at her and sees her that way. She also thinks that floral print frat boy KKK members are an integral part of the black experience and it makes her more authentically black if she had a run-in with them.

Another example is how the racist gay-bashers in Juicy's story recognized him as a D-list actor from a C-list TV show aimed at a black audience. In his head the show is a big hit and everyone knows who he is.

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Pure_Coincidence 7 points ago +7 / -0

Another super common thing is that these "victims" can't properly speak in their imaginary attackers' voice. So you get weird, stilted stuff like "this is MAGA country" because they can't fully put themselves in the shoes of the people they invent to represent their opponents. I've seen fake hate crimes where white racists supposedly spray painted the gamer word on a black family's car (IIRC), but it didn't end in a "hard R" - if they were really evil roving racist vandals, why wouldn't the use the most offensive version of the word?

There was another one I really got a kick out of where somebody supposedly wrote "hey tranny, know your place" and "avoid being bitches" at Vassar College. Neither of those things sound like something a real person would write as hate graffiti - it's stilted and just "off". Of course it turned out that the one doing the graffiti was a tranny hispanic who was in charge of their "Bias Incident Response Team".

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Cacciali_Via 3 points ago +4 / -1

Their brains are fried from jumping through racial hoops trying to fit in with their black peers.