@chaoscat
Look, mate, racism isn’t cool. Not even casual racism.

But do you know what else?

When you go for random internet users who made a banter-y racially charged joke, and you do so by acting angry – That is actually really shitty praxis.

Because there was no actual malice in the person’s racist post, they don’t even process it as racist, and so when they see people acting in anger, their reaction isn’t “Huh, maybe I did a shitty thing.”, it’s “Huh, these people are assholes”, and their reaction to insistence (which will read to them as unfounded harrassment) is to double the fuck down.

You are actually priming and buttering people to be love-bombed by actual nazis and radicalized.

And speaking of! There are actual nazis out there. You know. Planning (and sometimes practicing!) acts of domestic white-supremacist terrorism. Organising marches where they shout actual nazi slogans, and then deny being nazis at all.

There are racists in power in major world superpowers.

Going after random anonymous twitter users instead of people with actual power who can in fact practice racism actively hurts the cause, it makes common people less sympathetic to you (and by you I mean us, and by ‘us’ I mean ‘me’ because I’m a latino and every time racism is made more popular by well-intentioned activists acting stupid I am personally hurt).

If it sounds stupid – It is. People are not, in fact, rational. They don’t care about how things are, they care about how thei perceive the thing. And if your public perception is fucked, you are fucked. If people perceive you as an asshole who is ruining their fun, it literally does not matter if you are right. You’ll just be seen as ‘asshole’, and people will agree with actual terrible things just to spite you.