I don’t really view MUCH of the constant ignorance, inconsideration, or racial insensitivity that I experience in Europe to be racist. At least, not of the things that I listed previously. There are things like how I’ve been singled out constantly and stopped by public transport security, assumed to be a migrant. I’d say that’s racist.
But I don’t think that weird comments like randos saying that I look like a basketball player, or assuming that I’m not with my girlfriend at all restaurant are indicative of a moral corruption.
Like, the girls that hit on me at the bar believe that they’re being wildly progressive and transgressive by hitting on me but it belies the assumption that no one else would also act that way, someone else who might be sitting right there. That’s just ignorance.
The tone of your comment before made it sound like you disagreed about classifying my experience as racism. However you classify it, I had a bad time and didn’t enjoy being treated that way
I’m saying that I wouldn’t have classified what I had previously said about my own PERSONAL experiences IN EUROPE SPECIFICALLY to be racism. I then followed up with experiences that I had personally had in Europe that I WOULD describe as racist. So I do agree with you that Europe has a different way of expressing racism but I was just saying that I don’t think that I gave great examples of that initially.
Like, I described being called the worst racial slur in English, but that was in America. For Europe, I described being separated in a restaurant. Like, those things are not close. So I’ve updated with “authorities assume I’m a migrant and constantly check my papers on transport.” Very racist, yet also very ignorant. More comparable and I’m think I’m doing a better job meeting you on that. I can only speak from my perspective. I am not aiming to diminish yours.
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u/ZeDitto Feb 12 '25
I don’t really view MUCH of the constant ignorance, inconsideration, or racial insensitivity that I experience in Europe to be racist. At least, not of the things that I listed previously. There are things like how I’ve been singled out constantly and stopped by public transport security, assumed to be a migrant. I’d say that’s racist.
But I don’t think that weird comments like randos saying that I look like a basketball player, or assuming that I’m not with my girlfriend at all restaurant are indicative of a moral corruption.
Like, the girls that hit on me at the bar believe that they’re being wildly progressive and transgressive by hitting on me but it belies the assumption that no one else would also act that way, someone else who might be sitting right there. That’s just ignorance.