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WCDT strips 3931-3935 (4th to 8th February 2019)
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: neurocase on 08 Feb 2019, 02:46 ---What I ask now, I don't ask sarcastically, but genuinely: I'm an expat in my country; up until now, should I have been assuming that anyone asking me where I was from didn't think I should be here? Because that genuinely didn't occur to me. I was always happy to answer because I assumed it was out of curiosity, but now I'm a little unsure what to think :/
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It could be straightforward curiosity if you're not from a marginalized group and being treated with suspicion.
When Akima wrote just now about people saying "You don't look Australian", she didn't mention that one of them was a US border guard at LAX. See the ICE thread in DISCUSS for an idea how bad that could have gotten.
brasca:
Seeing as how Jeph deemed this dude a dick there’s nothing to dispute, but I do wonder if his reason for asking the question was based on looks or how Brun sounds. Does she have an accent and if she does would it be rude to ask where she’s from?
TheEvilDog:
I imagine Brun sounds very flat with a monotone. No inflections or anything like that. I mean nothing we've seen indicates she has much of an accent, no use of regional dialect or slang.
So it seems he asked purely based on how she looks.
Is it cold in here?:
I think there is confusion because two ethically different questions can be asked using the same words.
On the train, a place where nobody lives, it means "Can we make stupid small talk?".
From Pericles to Brun it was "What kind of Other are you?".
Near Lurker:
I have to think if Piro'd been smarter, he could've asked about the Arabs of Lawrence.
Regardless, her name was clearly given to her by a soothsayer who saw her surrounded by flames. (And then the gas company blew up her hometown.)
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