Not often but every now and again I do. My dad's dad is pretty fuckin racist.

  • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Never the mexican thing, because I'm a filthy euro.

    Over here, 20 years ago it was "the lazy non-working eastern europeans who don't work are coming here and working hard taking all our jobs while they're on welfare and not working".

    Today it's the same thing, just substitute "muslims" for "eastern europeans".

    And we also need to starve and freeze to death for those eastern europeans (they're suddenly white and hard working and good now) because Putler bad.

    This obviously makes all sort of sense because we euros are clearly not racist in any way.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Over here, 20 years ago it was “the lazy non-working eastern europeans who don’t work are coming here and working hard taking all our jobs while they’re on welfare and not working”.

      Polish and Romanians got so much racism not that long ago here in the UK.

      Now it's anyone on the boats from France. But usually it's some variant of "look at all those men" with the implication that they're all dangerous rapists instead of refugees.

      • FearsomeJoeandmac [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Do the Celtic Fringe in Scotland and Wales empathize with these people at all? It wasn't so long ago they were being oppressed by the English as well for being Celtic. So much so the lowland scots adopted the Saxon identity and forsook their Celtic heritage for awhile.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Oh, you've met the disowned parts of my family, then.

  • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]
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    2 years ago

    This was lots of people I worked with in the carnival. The quiet part was that most of them were taking some form of welfare while working under the table for [Carnival Name Redacted]. Their primary concern is to get everybody they deem "unworthy" off of the dole so that there will magically be more money for all the "worthy" types.

  • Comp4 [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Schrödinger´s Immigrant. Simultaneously stealing your job and too lazy to work.

  • duderium [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Can’t exploit someone without dehumanizing them first. Where I live, the problem is a handful of homeless people standing around with signs asking for money at intersections. White millennial PMCs and PBs are very concerned! It’s like, my brother in Christ, there would be no homeless people if there were no landlords!

    • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago
      CW: domestic abuse maybe?, racism, etc

      I met this guy at this party before New Years, right? My Gf's brother's friend or something. Idk. Anyway he's clearly a weird guy because right off the bat he's calling their cats various Pokemons. "She's a total Jolteon" type stuff, like, uh okay?

      So he starts talking to me which is cool because he seems nice enough and I'm not great with parties and meeting people and stuff. He seems to be cool with socialism and shit, says he's a communist, agrees with some death to America shit, right? Seems pretty cool!

      But then he starts going on about how it's okay to be a little racist, how like he has a white daughter so anti white racism sets him off so it's okay when he told some Jamaican lady who was being racist to "go back to the islands," also let out an N word, also kept phrasing things as "as a Mexican, I...."

      I asked him about calling the cops on neighbors involved in domestic disputes because I have had situations where idk what the fuck to do because fuck the cops but also fuck beating your wife and I wanted his Unique Take on it and he started talking about how he'd call the cops because he has personal experience in beating his wife which he super regrets but mostly because his daughter witnessed it and now she associated her being spanked for misbehavior (which "as a mexican, it's how we parent our kids") with him beating his wife

      and it's just like WHAT THE FUCK GUY I JUST MET YOU WHY ARE YOU TELLING ME ALL OF THIS

      I guess I mean to say: a new type of guy just dropped