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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago (16 children)

causally slipped “by the way fairies are real”

wait, what? What sort of context? Multiple people? FFS TELL

[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago (15 children)

so I think I must just have one of those faces cause it’s been something that multiple former friends have revealed to me, and it’s usually a weird show of trust? and it’s always something like “you know, I just think fairies must be real, like they’ve got to be out there? you know?”

and in all cases I’ve gone “…oh that’s cool” and mentally earmarked that person as “do not trust with heavy machinery”

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago (7 children)

yeah i have one of those faces too (tall, blue eyes, Danish cheekbones), disconcerting number of nazis who wanted me to be in with them

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I get the club invite most times I speak afrikaans in pretoria

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

in australia the club invite is just a way of saying "hi" to your fellow white person

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago

I've never had the full on "let's be nazis together" invite but I've had several people launch unprompted into "now that it's just us white folks we can talk for real" mode. internally they must have been like "I see white skin, we are clear for takeoff, 54321"

funnily enough it hasn't happened since I became visibly trans

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

ja that can happen/s here too

presumably your bones comprehend all the non-weather reasons that .au is such a popular za expat destination

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

those particular south africans apparently made perth in particular a fucking delight of genteel racism in the late 90s

tho they didn't particularly change the nature of it

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@dgerard

Trying to turn it into Bogandesia.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

already there. it is difficult to explain just how racist Australia is, and impossible to explain it to Australians, who are convinced against all possible evidence that it is not

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