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Umm, what??? That's pointless...
kyomi:
--- Quote from: LeeC on 16 Sep 2013, 07:35 ---'Murica moment
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Is... is that a crocodile nuke?
LTK:
--- Quote from: LeeC on 16 Sep 2013, 07:35 ---
--- Quote from: Sorflakne on 15 Sep 2013, 23:45 ---So apparently the racists and people of otherwise lesser intelligence are butthurt over the fact that an American who happens to be of Indian descent won Miss America.
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I'd like to think most of it is hyperbole or trolling, considering its the internet.
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I wish I shared your optimism.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Sorflakne on 15 Sep 2013, 23:45 ---So apparently the racists and people of otherwise lesser intelligence are butthurt over the fact that an American who happens to be of Indian descent won Miss America.
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Presumably the same ones who got all bent out of shape when an American-born US citizen sang "God Bless America" at the 2013 MLB All-Star game.I've met plenty of people who think you have to be white to be a Real Australian, so I doubt those tweets are anything other than what they seem.
Valdís:
Yeah, it's really gross. It's so blatantly obvious that when people talk about "immigrants" here that they mean "middle-eastern looking" people; immigration not required. Similarly when other Swedes internalize those attitudes as "us immigrants". Dude, you were born here.
Always it gets back to scary brown people. I've literally heard "it makes you scared of being around them" recently in person. No, actually, it doesn't. It makes your xenophobic ass scared of being around 'them'. I have the basic thinking skills to not consider some random brown person as representative of everyone else.
If anything it makes me a whole lot more concerned being around YOU. The fearmongering far-right doesn't exactly have an amazing record of being non-transphobic.
LeeC:
--- Quote from: kyomi on 16 Sep 2013, 07:52 ---
--- Quote from: LeeC on 16 Sep 2013, 07:35 ---'Murica moment
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Is... is that a crocodile nuke?
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Yes, yes it is. And Ronald McDonald is using a shot gun int he background.
@ Akima and LTK
I don't consider myself sheltered (far from it) but I usually don't encounter stuff like that in real life. Maybe its because my ancestors are West European and I don't encounter racism all that often. However, on the internet plenty of people will say stuff like that just to get a rise out of people and not actually meaning it. I can't say the same for Oz though.
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