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Misplaced Faith in Racist Ignorance (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by Varven@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have gotten dirty looks for talking to my dog in gaelic(she understood commands in both english and gaelic). The US really isn't friendly to any other languages at all. I'm also in a blue state.
It's gotta be WAY worse for POC. Like... scary worse...especially for folks stuck in red states. There are some cultural aspects of the US that really need updating. Like the rampant xenophobia.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My dad actually got greenbook tips because he was traveling in the 80s through rural texas and his supervisors realized he "looked visibly Irish"

[–] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's crazy! You mean like the greenbook that was written for traveling Black Americans during the Jim Crow era so they could avoid places like sundown towns and businesses that refused services to POC? Sorry if that's not what you meant, it's the only greenbook I'm familiar with... unless greenbook is a general term for avoiding places filled with racism?

Either way I had no idea that prejudice towards the Irish was still prevalent up into the 80's. Thats...really something else.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

I do actually mean that.

Rural Texans, there's a reason they picked those guys to be the crop that gave us leatherface.