All the people who “accidentally” said things like “they (Chinese) just don’t value life like we do” within earshot of me kind of merge together in my memory as one enormous workplace bully.
The ones who would then pretend to spot me and wide-eyed add, “Oh, not you Dianne. You’re one of the good ones” form the second enormous workplace bully.
There’s a reason I moved here “for a year or two” … almost 25 years ago.
This is why I laugh bitterly at the notion that Canada is somehow a “nice” society that “celebrates” diversity.
I’m sure it looks this way if you’re white. It doesn’t look this way if you’re “Asian” (between people who call us “their fetish” and people who do what I reported above), if you’re Native, if you’re Middle Eastern of any stripe, if you’re Indian, if you’re Somali, if you’re … You get the drift.
It only looks that way if you’re dumb. There are only two types of society in this world: racist, and racist but trying to deal with it.
It’s why I have a lot of schadenfreude for Sweden/Scandinavia as well. Enlightened multicultural social democracy for everyone… Until migrants show up with the wrong race/religion then suddenly a fascist contingent of your population materializes and there’s a “security crisis”
All the people who “accidentally” said things like “they (Chinese) just don’t value life like we do” within earshot of me kind of merge together in my memory as one enormous workplace bully.
The ones who would then pretend to spot me and wide-eyed add, “Oh, not you Dianne. You’re one of the good ones” form the second enormous workplace bully.
There’s a reason I moved here “for a year or two” … almost 25 years ago.
😬😬😬 thats a yikes. Thats several yikes even 😅
This is why I laugh bitterly at the notion that Canada is somehow a “nice” society that “celebrates” diversity.
I’m sure it looks this way if you’re white. It doesn’t look this way if you’re “Asian” (between people who call us “their fetish” and people who do what I reported above), if you’re Native, if you’re Middle Eastern of any stripe, if you’re Indian, if you’re Somali, if you’re … You get the drift.
It only looks that way if you’re dumb. There are only two types of society in this world: racist, and racist but trying to deal with it.
It’s why I have a lot of schadenfreude for Sweden/Scandinavia as well. Enlightened multicultural social democracy for everyone… Until migrants show up with the wrong race/religion then suddenly a fascist contingent of your population materializes and there’s a “security crisis”
People really are vile sometimes. Usually you have to just tell from people’s behaviour to you but they actually fucking verbalised it.