My thoughts: this was not an accident. This was testing the waters.

I wonder what the person who absolutely insisted to me yesterday that this wasn’t about black people in general would have to say about this…

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    16 days ago

    Gonna invoke the hivemind rage and say that, upon listening w headphones, it does kinda sound like he’s saying “migr -” with a short “i” sound.

    Now queue the downvotes, calling me racist, dumb, etc.

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        16 days ago

        I think you’re hearing what you want to hear and getting a hit of the righteous outrage. Misspeaking is a thing, dude. You say “plausible” sarcastically, as if it weren’t actually 100% plausible lol

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          16 days ago

          Sounds like everyone here is “hearing what they want to hear” except you. What does that suggest to you?

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              16 days ago

              You can also claim anything you want if you simply dismiss everything you don’t agree with as biased and worthless, which you appear to be doing here.

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      Yeah, I’m not 100% convinced either. It doesn’t sound like he used the n-word, nor that he caught himself halfway through saying it. People screw up speaking all the time, and on rare occasions it can sound like something offensive.

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      No. I assumed it was actually something like thag. Then listened to it a bunch of times. I don’t find that plausible at all.