Ha, this is word for word exactly my first experience on my first visit to Europe (Austria) as a 14 year old.
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@RnDanger @rainerzufall_le sometimes I post stuff like this because there’s a couple of guys in my replies who are always on about how they don’t understand why I haven’t left the shithole that is California for Germany. Totally unprompted! Like, I have never expressed an interest in moving there. But they are convinced there is something wrong with me for not wanting to do this.
On random posts too! ‘Here’s a post about a job in California, where I live’ ‘too bad California is a fascist shithole, only low IQ immigrants go to the U.S. instead of Europe’ (they’re avowed leftists apparently) or ‘everyone worth anything is moving to Germany’
It’s a very strange mix of antifa anti-imperialist.. eugenics?
@skinnylatte @RnDanger Antifascism-flavored nationalism? I really don't know.
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@skinnylatte I never imagined it would happen in the ¨tolerant¨ Netherlands, where there are citizens by birth with Asian ancestry. It happens even there.
@WitchHayley @skinnylatte They did finally get rid of their annual blackface festival a few years ago, but the fact that they had an annual blackface festival until a few years ago certainly says something. Also the fact that there was violence against the people advocating to get rid of the blackface.
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@WitchHayley @skinnylatte They did finally get rid of their annual blackface festival a few years ago, but the fact that they had an annual blackface festival until a few years ago certainly says something. Also the fact that there was violence against the people advocating to get rid of the blackface.
@crzwdjk @WitchHayley as my friend, an immigrant in Stockholm likes to say, the only thing worse than racism there is the many white Americans who live there and go ‘wow! There is no racism here!’ and then the racists get very proud of themselves and say ‘look these Americans say we are less racist than them’
Meanwhile she gets mail regularly telling her to GTFO of the country
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@pencilears well this happens precisely to East Asian kids because we are supposed to be docile people who let people beat us up.
Unless we know kungfu.
@skinnylatte it's always been weird to me how much the generally Asian cultural value of politely ignoring when a stranger is being embarrassing, and this thing I've seen where people operate socially on both a ruthless level and a polite level simultaneously. (especially when it's women smoothly dealing with misogynistic men)
This gets read as "submissiveness" or docility or whatever by western people and like, ohhh it is noooot.
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Ha, this is word for word exactly my first experience on my first visit to Europe (Austria) as a 14 year old.
Except it happened almost every day. I was there to visit the UN.
They also introduced me to a former secretary general of the UN, a known Nazi. What a wild time.
@skinnylatte that is so awful!!
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@RnDanger @rainerzufall_le sometimes I post stuff like this because there’s a couple of guys in my replies who are always on about how they don’t understand why I haven’t left the shithole that is California for Germany. Totally unprompted! Like, I have never expressed an interest in moving there. But they are convinced there is something wrong with me for not wanting to do this.
On random posts too! ‘Here’s a post about a job in California, where I live’ ‘too bad California is a fascist shithole, only low IQ immigrants go to the U.S. instead of Europe’ (they’re avowed leftists apparently) or ‘everyone worth anything is moving to Germany’
It’s a very strange mix of antifa anti-imperialist.. eugenics?
@skinnylatte @RnDanger The dad of a school friend of mine was born in Syria. My friend had loads of stories about racial profiling or even racist insults by Federal Police when landing at Frankfurt Airport. (Germany's largest airport btw)
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@skinnylatte @RnDanger The dad of a school friend of mine was born in Syria. My friend had loads of stories about racial profiling or even racist insults by Federal Police when landing at Frankfurt Airport. (Germany's largest airport btw)
@rainerzufall_le @RnDanger one of the reasons I don’t fly Lufthansa even tho it often makes sense for me: landing in Frankfurt, immigration officers make me feel like a criminal, even as a person from a rich country they apparently like.
I prefer to fly through Finland, where people are equally dour to everybody.
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@gbargoud @Happyfishmedia yeah it’s literally on anything neutral about where I live
I post jobs that are in California and he will be like ‘too bad California is a shithole and nobody I know will want to move there’
I only engaged the first couple of times and stopped when he said
‘Immigrants to the U.S. are lower quality in IQ compared to immigrants to Europe’
@skinnylatte @gbargoud @Happyfishmedia ew, that's report-worthy
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@RnDanger @rainerzufall_le sometimes I post stuff like this because there’s a couple of guys in my replies who are always on about how they don’t understand why I haven’t left the shithole that is California for Germany. Totally unprompted! Like, I have never expressed an interest in moving there. But they are convinced there is something wrong with me for not wanting to do this.
On random posts too! ‘Here’s a post about a job in California, where I live’ ‘too bad California is a fascist shithole, only low IQ immigrants go to the U.S. instead of Europe’ (they’re avowed leftists apparently) or ‘everyone worth anything is moving to Germany’
It’s a very strange mix of antifa anti-imperialist.. eugenics?
@skinnylatte @RnDanger @rainerzufall_le
Oh yikes, that is awful!
I see this is an example of how racism is hidden from other white people on Mastodon
I guess they must be blocked by my instance? Or they are private messaging you?
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@skinnylatte it's always been weird to me how much the generally Asian cultural value of politely ignoring when a stranger is being embarrassing, and this thing I've seen where people operate socially on both a ruthless level and a polite level simultaneously. (especially when it's women smoothly dealing with misogynistic men)
This gets read as "submissiveness" or docility or whatever by western people and like, ohhh it is noooot.
That's very similar to European upper class behavior, right? The ignoring while simultaneously responding in a cutting way
But not recognized by white people, when it comes from a different face
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@skinnylatte @RnDanger Antifascism-flavored nationalism? I really don't know.
@rainerzufall_le @skinnylatte @RnDanger
I am not at all surprised. Small-mindedness is hardly exclusive to right-wing spaces.
And German left-wing spaces are often so focused on Anti-Americanism that they refuse to see any things that the USA does do better than Germany.
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@skinnylatte @RnDanger @rainerzufall_le
Oh yikes, that is awful!
I see this is an example of how racism is hidden from other white people on Mastodon
I guess they must be blocked by my instance? Or they are private messaging you?
@NilaJones @skinnylatte @RnDanger @rainerzufall_le
I have seen such things, too.
And irregardless of instance blocks: If you are targeted by such things, you are far more likely to see them than if you are not.
