uziq wrote:
Dilbert_X wrote:
Most people's experience of racism is ‘people being nasty’ or finding racism in banter or - nothing at all.
Someone put out a plate of crackers at the monthly drinks, ZOMG for white people thats like tying a garage pull-cord into a handy loop is for black people.
speak for yourself, dilbert.
so, to clarify, you claim that you have an equal experience of racism because someone made fun of your surname and someone else joked that you were lost when wandering through a neighbourhood with a local ethnic community. wow! you really know racism!
has anyone ever crossed the street to the other side of the road when you're walking around? maybe, maybe.
has anyone ever called the police on you because you're in their neighbourhood, and they're immediately suspicious and feel threatened? or because they know that the mere suggestion of calling the police is in-itself a veiled threat to a black person? 'i'll call the local white police on you if you interrupt me any more!'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 … irdwatcherhow about ... has anyone ever stopped and questioned you, and threatened to call the police on you, when you're in your
own neighbourhood, outside your
own house, because they are skeptical that you could even possibly live in such a respectable area? has anyone ever demanded that you leave your own building, and followed you around insisting that you leave 'their' area?
Or Tower Hamlets late at night?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/us/h … louis.htmlhttps://metro.co.uk/2020/06/13/karen-ma … -12848700/assuming people have called the police on you for simply being in the 'wrong' area, have you then ever got into an altercation with a police officer? have you ever feared for your life when talking to a police officer? have you ever feared wrongful imprisonment? being forcibly restrained? killed? somehow i sincerely doubt you've ever had to confront this sort of fear or anxiety.
have you ever been pursued and chased down by people carrying guns, intent on performing a 'citizen's arrest', simply because you're out for a jog in their neighbourhood?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52764898tell me more about how you know about racism, and it's 'mostly just banter'.
you know, dilbert, and i mean this quite sincerely, once in a while you should really actually shut the fuck up and try listening to someone else's experiences. you file everything away in your own little 'culture war' contraptions, you have an answer and retort to everything, and you look like a very, very silly man. shut up and learn something.