• Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    It would only be racist if it was a white guy leaving watermelon gifts on black porches.

    If it were a black guy leaving watermelons on black porches, Afro-American solstice fruit Santa. It would become racist again if white people tried to participate by leaving stereotypical black cultural gift offerings akin to milk and cookies for Santa.

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      5 hours ago

      it would be racist if white people tried to participate

      “Racially insensitive,” perhaps, but just trying to participate in someone’s culture is usually pro-social. Only as a form of mockery would I call that racist.

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        3 hours ago

        Hence the leaving of “stereotypical black cultural gifts”. You can imagine what white people would leave as a gift for a black person, that they only understand from popular culture.