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“I’m not a racist,” she said through heavy emotion, adding that her daughter is half Black and she herself is mixed race and a member of the LGBTQ community. “Everybody seems to be turning it into that, and that was not my intent.”

None of that means you can't be racist.

Lee recently posted on Facebook about a neighbor’s cat that went missing, adding that the neighbor told Lee she thought the cat was the victim of an attack by her Haitian neighbors.

Nah, someone who wasn't racist would have known not to spread your crazy neighbor's theories that are.

Sorry but are you excusing a person who literally made up the racist shit for no reason just because her apology didn’t sound republican to you and other people blew her lie up further than she “claims” to have not wanted it to be?

That’s like sorry I set this building on fire, I was just trying to burn this one desk but didn’t mean for it to spread and kill a bunch of innocent people.

We shouldn't wait until it gets to that point. Look at the past, plenty of racism examples to work from that became violent. What really makes it worse is that Trump, Vance, and others are doubling down on the mistake, fanning flames that should have just been a one day "that's stupid". They want violence, it helps their cause, excites their base.

Not yet, and I hope not. I'm worried this will (figuratively) explode into something like the recent UK protests/riots.

This is the kind of outrage response that is ruining society. Everyone gossips and it sounds like she was repeating something she heard elsewhere instead of making it up on the spot.

The blame for the violence against immigrants falls squarely on the shoulders of Dotard Dump for taking a single soundbite (probably out of context) and blasting it to the world and directly ~~inti~~ into the brains of his nazi followers. This lady wasn't orchestrating a disinformation campaign, she was victim to one.

If one person told Adolph one time that "Juden sind schlect" would you seriously blame them for the entire holocaust?

I do think there's a lesson here about the dangers of social media, disinformation, and republicans though.

"But I'm gay and biracial"

"Oh, I had no idea. Do whatever you want all of the time."

Out of curiosity, what would accountability look like to you, in this case. Since she's admitted guilt she's likely to be held at least partially responsible for the crimes of others if it's found her racist claim played a part in the crimes motivation. I assume she's likely to lose her job as well, but we'll have to wait and see i suppose.

The cat was also gay and a mixed breed, so unfortunately that cancels out.

Her post is incredibly racist hearsay from 3 people removed (her neighbor's daughter's friend). It describes a vile act that casts fault on 20k people in her local community.

Shes expressing remorse because she did something vile and racist and now has everyone in the world looking at her and her actions.

She doesn't have anything to gain like Trump/Vance, so shes afraid she will have consequences in her life now that her racism and hate is so public. After the multiple days of bomb threats that have cleared local schools and city Hall, the fear has set in.

That's it. She didn't apologize out of a sense of decency or remorse. Her apology is:

"Well I'm biracial and gay, so I can't be racist."

"I also didn't realize this hate would go national, and now that the world is attacking these people and might attack me, I realize what I did was wrong."

"I'm so scared what I did will affect me, please don't let it."

That's not remorse. That's someone running from the ugly thing they did, hoping to escape any consequence.

Yep.

Classic nopology.