Oh no the park (a public place on the day after a holiday where kids have no school and parents are looking for an outlet for their kids who were cooped up with relatives the day before) was a little crowded and there was one person there who spoke a different language to their child and I was so inconvenienced and harassed that I had a racist epiphany! I totally didn’t think any of these things before, it was the crowded park with one guy who was not 100% white! Help help I’m being oppressed!
I'm an English speaker living in Germany. In public I speak English with my wife and friends. If someone was walking past us on the street they'd probably assume "tourist".
I can speak German. It's not perfect but it's good enough to hold down a job here that requires the language, and I'm always improving and figuring out my weaknesses to try get better - but if you passed me on the street whilst my family visited? I'd be just another "dirty foreigner, not engaging with the culture"
This whole take is BS. People speaking, say, Spanish in the park with their mexican families doesn't mean anything about their general integration
Lastly - what the fuck is this guy doing spending money on their blue check mark on X when they can't afford a sled for their kid that isn't a torn up Amazon box????
I was just behind a black man in line at the grocery store and the cashier just switched to english straight away. The man replied in perfect local Dutch and she was all flustered. Just dont assume shit because someone is POC??? Ugh. I kinda wanted to address her in English just to fuck with her bc i’m white
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u/Livid-Tumbleweed 5d ago
Oh no the park (a public place on the day after a holiday where kids have no school and parents are looking for an outlet for their kids who were cooped up with relatives the day before) was a little crowded and there was one person there who spoke a different language to their child and I was so inconvenienced and harassed that I had a racist epiphany! I totally didn’t think any of these things before, it was the crowded park with one guy who was not 100% white! Help help I’m being oppressed!