• TerminalEncounter [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    52·
    3 days ago

    This is so stupid and even stupider that this moron is now, somehow, becoming more accepting even if he still fundamentally retains that racism. People can change after major health events and I guess I’m glad the person in the story is taking a step towards being better even if it’s for the dumbest reason imaginable.

    I have had parents ask (me) if we can assure the blood we’re giving their kid is from white people. Which… no, we dont take down that data. The kid either gets this blood or they keep getting sicker. Wanna risk your kids life on your racism??? It’s the same fucking blood. Since there’s a donor shortage where I live, we end up importing blood from the US from paid donors. Who inevitably are black and brown because it’s usually poor people who do that for survival and black and brown people are disproportionately poor. So that kid with racist parents probably IS gonna get life saving blood extracted at the proverbial knife’s edge of capitalist immiseration from the very people the parents are racist against

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      38·
      3 days ago

      I think what’s crazy is reading the really saddening paragraph by the black kid’s mother and you can feel the love in it, only to get one heck of a gut punch with the disgusting racism that comes after.

      When you forget the mother’s painful paragraph, the white pair’s racism is ludicrously comical; but this was an awesome kid who lost his life and the recipient is a repulsive racist.

    • ShareThatBread [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      18·
      3 days ago

      I have had parents ask (me) if we can assure the blood we’re giving their kid is from white people. Which… no, we dont take down that data. The kid either gets this blood or they keep getting sicker. Wanna risk your kids life on your racism??? It’s the same fucking blood.** Since there’s a donor shortage where I live**, we end up importing blood from the US from paid donors.

      cringe Where would this be?

  • Lussy [any, hy/hym]@hexbear.netEnglish
    49·
    3 days ago

    He actually asked me if he could ask the doctor for a white heart when one came up. He’s no Archie Bunker, but he’s close to it. And he would kill me if he knew I told you this, but for the first time, he’s invited his black friends over from work.

    Nope. There’s no chance this isn’t a comedy bit. Lmao wtf

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    37·
    3 days ago

    starting to understand why freud was so convinced of the separation of id and ego. the disconnect between conscious and subconscious understanding here is breathtakingly vast

  • CarmineCatboy2 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    36·
    3 days ago

    do you think the researchers were like, yeah we gotta publish this the world must know. or did they have even more insane examples in the pipeline.

      • darkmode [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        24·
        3 days ago

        There are quite a few tear-jerkers. The one that got me was right at the beginning in case 2:

        We stayed with the [recipient family] that night. In the middle of the night, Carter came in and asked to sleep with my husband and me. He cuddled up between us exactly like Jerry did, and we began to cry. Carter told us not to cry because Jerry said everything was okay. My husband and I, our parents, and those who really knew Jerry have no doubt. Our son’s heart contains much of our son and beats in Carter’s chest. On some level, our son is still alive

  • Guamer [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    23·
    3 days ago

    At least he’s more tolerant than he used to be and developed an appreciation for classical music? I guess?

    Also, this feels like a lost Cumtown bit, with Nick as the heart recipient.

  • TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    27·
    3 days ago

    A friend of mine was once in a music store that sold pianos where she witnessed a little boy, maybe 10, playing beautiful Chopin. Next to him sat his grandmother, beaming with pride.

    An old, bemused white man approached them from behind and asked “can you play any gangster rap on that thing!? 😂” (They were black). She died of cringe.