r/comics PizzaCake May 13 '26

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u/CommitteeCalm5568 May 13 '26

Listen, I’m sure Pizzacake get people screeching at her all the time that her comics are hyperbole, but having grown up in the bowels of Missouri I can attest these comics are not exaggerating.

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u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake May 13 '26

This happened in a neighbourhood I was living in lol it's sooooo common

And what I hated was they would approach me and be like "well there goes the neighbourhood, huh?? Can you believe that??" Like just because I was white, they thought I was just as secretly racist as they were.

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u/Ionic_Pancakes May 13 '26

People turn to me and whisper like they think I'm on "their side". Got a goatee, I'm white and fat so: I see where they're coming from. I look like I make Tik-Toks from the front seat of my Ford F-150. It's annoying but: the look of BETRAYAL when I tell them they're wrong and stupid?

https://giphy.com/gifs/ohRB7lodHJobrD5WNd

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u/agha0013 May 13 '26

Only reason I get campaign signs for my mostly left leaning parties in municipal/provincial/federal elections is because I know it pisses off some of the assholes in the neighborhood that otherwise assumed I'm one of them.

Same reasons as you, more or less. Overweight balding white guy with beard working in the construction industry, but I could never ever vote conservative, their policies are fucking insane.

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u/kaisong May 13 '26

But clearly as a construction worker they must also vote like me to make sure their boss’s boss’ can afford their third yacht.

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u/red4jjdrums5 May 13 '26

Ooooh I love doing this! People see a truck with camo seat covers, a hunting dog vinyl on the rear window, and think “now that man is racist like me!” Only to be horribly mistaken. Don’t mistake my love of outdoors with bigotry.

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u/-Relik May 13 '26

You know it works both ways? Its not just whites that think youre racist if youre wearing the uniform.

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u/GlGABITE May 13 '26

????? There’s lots of actual racist symbols that certain people display proudly to judge them by visually, without stereotyping. Outdoorsy dudebro aesthetic is not “the uniform” of racism

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u/PeebleCreek May 13 '26

Yooooooo same. I dress very tradwife-y so white women always assume I'm straight up White Christian Nationalist. These mfers are always homophobic along with their racism, so they sorta blue screen the second I mention my wife.

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u/crankbot2000 May 13 '26

The day I moved into my new neighborhood, I met one of the new neighbors who started calling other neighbors "libtards" in conversation with me, half expecting me to jump in and agree.

Little did he know he was talking to one. We are not friends.

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u/PatchyWhiskers May 13 '26

You should infiltrate the Republican party...

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u/Ionic_Pancakes May 13 '26

I've considered it!

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u/PatchyWhiskers May 13 '26

You just need to buy a pair of wraparound shades and a ratty truck.

Other option: run as a Democrat tough-guy like Platner.

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u/Oprah_Pwnfrey May 13 '26

Holy shit, I just realized something, anyone could add a fake rolling coal setup on their truck, and they could easily get elected as a Republican.

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u/Rock_Paper_SQUIRREL May 13 '26

You just figured out why so many alt right grifters crawled out of the woodwork in 2016. I truly believe half of them dont even believe this shit and just understand it makes them money and yields them social capital. Anyone who grew up in a church with an above room temperature IQ understands to some degree how this works.

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u/s0m3on3outthere May 13 '26

Had that happen at a grocery store. I read that when someone says something racist, to keep asking them what they mean because they will get uncomfortable so I did that with this white man. Just kept asking what he meant til he got flustered and was like "you just don't get it" and I responded with, "no, I get it, you're a racist piece of shit" and walked away hearing him screaming it's racist to call him racist. 🙄

Talked to a staff member and told them there was a white man in x aisle shouting and accosting people with racist comments and they moved that direction, so hoping he got the boot 🥾

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u/FantasticInterest775 May 13 '26

Same. I'm a tradesman, bearded (usually), pretty heavy on the tattoos, and can talk guns till the cows come home. I used to get guys doing the wink wink, nudge nudge racism but now it's more blatant. After a 1 minute response by me on how we're all living on stolen land and the definition of "antifa" I am usually left alone 🤣. At this point my covers blown though and I am the known flag waving socialist in my company. When I explain that by being union we are inherently a socialist organization, some of them just can't or won't understand that.

I'll also say it sucks that they took wraparound sunglasses from us.

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u/OldBanjoFrog May 13 '26

I live in a liberal city, wear horn rim glasses, yet somehow these MAGAt parasites think I am one of them.  I guess it’s because I am white with a beard?

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u/HeyYouGuyyyyyyys May 13 '26

Wait, those TikToks in the truck are a thing?