• MerryChristmas [any]
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      2 years ago

      To be fair, the one Australian exchange student I knew in the states was the biggest American patriot I've ever met. She was really into US "culture" in the same way that weeaboos are into Japan, but it was much more disconcerting because she was friends with a bunch of leftists who told her all sorts of horror stories about our police state and our economic system. And then what really ended the loose friendship: she told me I was making a big deal out of nothing when I stopped talking to this guy after he asked a light-skinned African woman if there were "a lot of n-words in your part of the world?"

      "He thought she was white and he was just trying to make an edgy joke." Then she told me if I really wanted to fight racism then I should start using the n-word too because it would take away the word's power, as if all I really wanted was an n-word pass from some Australian tourist with no understanding of racism's historical context in the states.

      And so yeah, I wouldn't mind if she got turned away the next time she tries to visit the states.

      • Ideology [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        :wtf-am-i-reading: people go to bat so hard to say the majority of white people aren't reactionary and then I read shit like this. After a certain number of cases it's a trend.