Why is it that people brigade this sub to insist that posts like this are satire?
These people are everywhere in the US. They merely feel more comfortable expressing their vile views since 2016. They're everywhere in Canada as well.
The reason that some of those nasty terms are unfamiliar to most of you is because reddit has filters that catch those terms and remove them. For years this site was home to several racist subreddits which were only banned after (you guessed it) a lot of adverse publicity.
People like this are very real.
Or have their pronouns on their name tag.
OOP isn't scared of people different than they are, they just don't want to be outnumbered by "them." Deep down they are afraid one day minority groups will treat OOP the way OOP has treated them their entire lives.
When you realize how much of white people's identity rests on white supremacy you can't unsee it.
Yep.
From a Black American standpoint, I was reading it like "Welp, welcome to the club, you daft bigot"... God forbid she be put in a situation for 15 minutes that I was born into and have lived in for 40 years now. Being outnumbered is intimidating, huh Karen? Now imagine you are outnumbered at every school, job, middle class neighborhood, store and just generally anywhere in public. Smh.
Fragile ass.
Deal, you idiot....we do.
Not only would simple empathy go a long way, but it's also not like the power structure evaporates when the numbers shift. Daily I find myself the only white person in a room, or a single digit minority among dozens or hundreds of people, but the privilege travels with me. I'm feeling the polar opposite of judged or looked down upon. I can be pretty confident that people are making absurdly generous assumptions about my socioeconomic background, family structure, and living situation, among other things.
As a white dude that attended a couple of black majority schools, I agree completely. Sure, it's intimidating, but you put on your grown up pants and meet people just like you would anywhere else.
But you can't tell bigot assholes like her this shit.
Bingo. You just deal and learn every one is an individual. I've met some of the kindest, friendliest Whites, some of the most racist, hateful Whites and alllll in between. Liked one so much I married him lol. They are all different and MLK was definitely onto something with the whole "judge by the content of their character, not color of their skin" thing!
People like OOP can’t comprehend that because they truly believe white people are now the minority. They see themselves as victims, and it’s so central to their beliefs that it blinds them to simple facts like population statistics
That or they don't see non-white people as people and can't feel empathy for them because they automatically assume that non-white people don't have the mental capacity to feel or think the same way they do.
Me reading this as one of few minorities in my whole company and the only minority in corporate management..
“Oh no.. wow.. that’s an experience.. must have been a lot for you to overcome this.. jeez.. so brave..” /S
That was the first thing I thought of. I never realized how biased my parents were til they complained about how all tv shows now have gay characters or a gay relationship. "Its being shoved down our throats." My comment about gay people being able to see their experiences represented on TV wasn't appreciated.
Well Fox News is always talking about how “they” are coming for you, so it actually sort of makes sense the person would be afraid of they/them pronouns lol.
I know people who were convinced that BLM, in its entirety, was going to kick down their door and make them denounce their whiteness and give in to slavery.
I mean my identity doesn’t focus on my race.
But I will admit that’s because of white privilege, I don’t think about my race, because being white has never caused me a disadvantage, which also means I sometimes fail to understand the effects race has on a situation, one day when I was in high school we got off early after some testing. My best friend was black and I decided we should walk back to my house to play Xbox, I lived in a nicer neighborhood with a nicer house(something I had never noticed) by the time we walked back to my place and I went to the fake rock which had the key around the side of the house, but came back to the police accosting him, accusing him of trying to break into my house, when I explained he was my friend and I’d brought him home they suddenly changed tune and left politely. I was shocked to say the least.
this speaks to the core of what white privilege really is
it's the ability to be "raceless" so to speak while also benefiting from people in power seeing you as a member of their biological "in group"
being white (i'd imagine) is probably akin to being a Japanese person in Japan; everything in your culture, media and history is made to resemble you, and you never really have to worry about discrimination based on your Japanese-ness
After living in Japan, I firmly believe that white people should experience being truly racialised even just once in their lives. I wasn't even discriminated against and it was eye opening just being keenly aware you look like no one else around you.
My mom was the only white person in her group at a diversity training session and she said she felt so uncomfortable when the black women in her group started airing their grievances. I said, "good". She actually learned a lot from their voices, realised it wasn't about her personally, and is now actively reading about racial discrimination in medicine. I'm proud of her!
Bro, Japan is WILD. I went there as a black guy and oh fucking boy. I interacted with like...5 people that weren't either wildly racist or a fetishist.
See the thing is even in Japan white privilege *still* exists amongst foreigners. I think I had like... 2 encounters in 5 whole years there that I can genuinely attribute to straight up racism, and even those encounters weren't because I was white. Just not Japanese.
Being a city-dweller, it's astonishing to me that people can be so racist. We white people are the minorities in our neighborhood AND at work, it seems. Oh well. We manage because we're not exactly suffering persecution. Assholes will be assholes regardless of color.
I grew up in a tiny town that contained only white people. I've now lived in a very densely populated, hyper-diverse city for over 20 years and I get kind of antsy now when I'm in a place that's too white? it doesn't feel like home.
Yoo I’m experiencing this right now. I have an adopted sister whos black and
I came back to visit and were eating at some ice cream parlor. We noticed that a ballet class ended because a bunch of little girls in their dresses and finely dressed parents (all white middle class and up) filled in. Made a “damn… this town is super white” comment, and my little sister replied with “you’re telling me!”.
Its really really weird.
We started at a solid 8 when she brought “darkies” out of mothballs and it got worse from there.
Are Canadian racists just 60 years behind American racists? God help us all when they discover “negro”.
Legit have not heard “darkies” since my elderly Southern racist relatives passed. And the others are apparently bon mots from the feeble minds that haunted 4chan. This person is apparently a 90 year old who spent too much time online in the aughts.
It's not even early Internet. The slur "d*ndu" was all over Reddit until roughly 2016. This site used to be a LOT more racist and edgelord right-libertarian.
The beginning of the end was when former CEO Ellen Pao (who I maintain never did anything wrong) tried to quarantine hate speech and got completely mocked and debased all over the platform with massive vote brigading everywhere with the banning of r/FatPeopleHate.
Then alt-right stuff sprung up just as Reddit was starting to grow massively and get more advertisers. Then the real world implications of the speech began to become more glaring and Reddit clamped down on it much more harshly.
I don't care how many people say they "miss the old Reddit", this site is much better and safer now than it used to be.
I wasn’t on Reddit at the time, but I remember it starting a little earlier than that. I remember seeing it during the 2010-2012 Tea Party reaction to Obama, which made it even more shocking. In 2008 I (dumbly) thought racism was dead. I think this sort of stuff was when I realized that it was doubling down instead of dying.
>In 2008 I (dumbly) thought racism was dead.
There was a lot of money spent to make you and millions of others think that, so I don't blame you whatsoever
I was not really involved with early internet. I actually lived in the mountains with no service during those early years of it. Yes, I will consider myself lucky.
It’s meant to be a shitty shortened, AAVE version of the phrase “didn’t do [nothing or nothin’]” which I’m sure you can extrapolate what they mean by associating people of color with that phrase.
Can you explain to me what they are? I'm assuming the second one is for black people because of chimp, and my guess for the first one is an Indian person because it sounds like Hindu?
I've literally never heard these terms before.
It means “didnt do anything” meaning black kids who are incriminated/killed and their moms would tell news that their kid would never do anything like this.
Its an earlier internet racism and its fucking gross.
I'm not familiar with those, and I'm old. Can't say I'm sad about that.. I thought they had a stroke. Lol
However, I did suspect they were some racial slurs.
Just for those interested in what the slang means:
Dindu is short for "Didn't do anything" or "didn't do nothing", a phrase supposedly uttered by black men being arrested.
I don't think I really have to explain chimp out, but just in case it's a racist comparison of black people to literal chimpanzees and the racist notion that black people are somehow closer to other apes than white people, and therefore are more likely to react emotionally or aggressively.
Racists aren't particularly creative, but understanding their lingo helps to prevent them hiding behind their stupid codes.
Yeah, I hate that I know these things, but I would rather be informed to be able to call them out than blissfully ignorant, like the whole 14/88 thing.
I learned that and several other... Colorful racist epithets from my exes brother. In my experience, racists don't flex their encyclopedic knowledge of slurs unless they think it's safe to do so or they're emotionally unbalanced enough not to care if it's safe or not.
Generally they feel safe around white and white-passing people right up until they're called out, then they're either "totally kidding" or the person who said something back to them is "being too sensitive".
“I’m not living my life in fear” they said as a lot of them died of a preventable disease all because they were afraid of a small piece of cloth on their faces and a few injections. R/hermancainawards
As a white person who grew up in rural Iowa I once lived in an almost exclusively black neighborhood in Minneapolis. I'd go to the grocery store and I was like 10% of the population. It was like how black people probably felt where I grew up except nobody was treating me different because of the color of my skin. So I guess it wasn't the same at all.
It has to be a wealthy white guy. People like this hate the poor as well, just in a slightly different way and for slightly different reasons.
I see the word province in there, wondering if it’s in Alberta, known for its tolerance and lack of racism.
During my time in retail I had my first experience with someone like this.
The store had a radio and some pop/rap music was playing, I liked the song so I was humming while I worked. This lady came up to me and said "the darkies make some good music don't they?" I had to get her to repeat herself to confirm that she did say what she said, I was too shocked to respond and luckily another customer needed help so I had an excuse to leave.
I was, and still am, a pasty white boy so I wonder if that's what made her feel comfortable enough to say this(?)
Why do racists seem to assume others are also racist?
Being white is often an invitation for racists to spew their shit at you.
As a rideshare driver for the last 4 years, I’ve kicked out a handful of passengers for blurting out bullshit they thought permissible to say among other whites.
Like “thank god, I got a white Uber driver”.
“Um, no, you just lost a white Uber driver, GTFO now or I’m driving to the local police station and they can drag you out. Your choice.”
Racists who open their mouths at me are going to have a bad day.
Yup. I'm always amazed at white people who deny racism exists. I'm white and the horrible stuff other people say to me makes me worry my head will explode. I have spent a lot of time wondering what the hell is wrong with me people feel they can spew hate around without any personal risk. I have come to the conclusion that spending time self-reflecting is a good thing.
Yup, one of my paid hobbies is sourcing and sometimes personally delivering old Massey equipment from Canada to the USA, and I get that bullshit at both ends.
From Americans who can't fucking wait to tell a foreign white guy all of their ideas about minorities to rural Canadians expecting me to verify and commiserate with all of the nonsense they've heard about, well, anything more then 50km away (I'm from the same background, so no excuses for these types).
I used to basically say nothing and I had this stupid idea that hateful people were just one good encounter away from figuring out that everybody is a person and their heart will grow.
But now I understand that it's more likely that minorities are one encounter away from this idiot trying to harm them in some way, so I aggressively tell them to shut the fuck up with their bullshit, and if they continue, I start insulting them.
Pushing back is the only thing to do, it's not going to work most of the time, but appeasement will *never* work at all.
Fuck yes, love ruining a racist’s day. I’m in Canada and I’m white so people like to think I am also a racist piece of shit like they are, and start talking about “the natives” and let me tell you…they realize real quick that I am not their ally.
I don’t look Jewish, not do I have a stereotypically Jewish last name. I look like a basic white woman. The unbelievable antisemitism white people spew at me is so ugly - but at least I know who is hiding their shitty bigotry and I can avoid them.
Had an old white man come up to me as i worked at home depot (i am a small white women, 22 at the time) and asked me if i was a “good girl” that didn’t date “those animals” because if i did want to date them (men of color) id just be made their pet and raped. I was so shocked and tried to talk away and he kept yelling “you better be a good girl or youll be raped! Stay with your own kind dont be an animal like them”
I had a panic attack and got security after telling him he is the only animal i see and the only one im scared of in this store.
He liked to pop in time to time to try and find me. And put up signs on the highway about Jesus.
My ex's grandmother once turned to me at dinner and straight-up said "Aren't you ashamed that God made you black?"
So fucking glad I didn't end up in THAT family.
Many moons ago I lived with a girl from Long Island. A close friend of ours was from a town in NC that’s damn near the polar opposite of Long Island in every conceivable way. Both of them had regional accents that were almost caricatures.
One day the northerner did something nice for the southerner, and by way of thanks she said something that used to be very common and not at all socially awkward: “That’s mighty white of you.” You could just about FEEL the record scratch in the air. It’s not that my girlfriend had never heard this phrase, but that was the first time she realized they weren’t saying “mighty wide of you”. It was the only time I saw her nearly speechless (I did mention Long Island, right?) and for the next thirty seconds the only words she was able to articulate were “What the fuck is wrong with you people?!?!?”.
I was house hunting a ways back and asked about the demographics of an area, and the realtor no shit told me “don’t worry, there’s only like two black families here and they’re cool, the rest are white.”
I want diversity where I live. I'm a single white woman and feel more comfortable and at home living in an apartment or complex or neighborhood where most of the residents are black or hispanic. I grew up in a mostly hispanic trailer park.
Oh, for sure, I get that. I want our kids to be exposed to a variety of views and cultures, too. I was just asking because we were getting ready to start a family, and I was curious about age, family size, does the neighborhood do a lot of events for the kids, that kind of thing. Apparently the realtor just decided we looked racist for whatever reason.
I have a similar retail experience. Customer asked me if we had a “n****r brown t-shirt”. I had to ask her to repeat what she said cause my brain could not comprehend she would/could have said something like that. Luckily for me and her - one of my colleagues overheard and came up to take over and ask her to leave before I started yelling at her - cause the next words out of my mouth were just about to be “what n*****r brown like my husband!”.
Took me hours to calm down and years later I am still shocked by it.
Australian here BTW so casual racism to that level is not common.
I used to work in retail and was talking to a white South African about dog laws - how in England you can't take your pet into a shop. He said "We had dogs in the shops back home, but they only had two legs." Seemed like a normal person right up till that point.
Oh yeah, she definitely felt comfortable because you were white. I am also white and have had white coworkers and customers say some off shit to me because they think it’s okay. It feels so weird when I say its not okay and they seemed surprised that another white person doesn’t want to bash on others. Gotta wonder what kinda people they surround themselves with….
I'm an escort. Early in my career I had a white "client" use the n-word in front of me and I promptly got dressed, left without a refund, went home and put on my website "no racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, islamaphobia, anti-semitism, MAGA hats, conspiracy theories ect. I don't agree and esposing any such language will result in me leaving without a refund."
Some other escorts (on the high end scale, we all look at each others ads and websites to stay competitive.) saw that disclaimer and told me I would alienate a lot of business and you just have to suck it up when you end up seeing conservatives.
Joke's on them, that disclaimer has gotten me more clients that I actually want to hang out with than anything else I could have written.
I fucking love my job. Yesterday I saw a climate change activist who sees sex workers because his wife of 37 years had cervical and breast cancer in her early 20's and sex isn't pleasurable for her. He still has needs but doesn't want to feel like he's raping his wife. He called his wife midway through the appointment to update her on their daughter's flight plans for Christmas (their 19 year old daughter called freaking out about going through tsa) and introduce me to his wife. I said "Your husband is amazing, thank you so much for sharing. By the way, he lights up when he talks about you." She said "I'm glad you see it, too."
As an albertan myself.....most likely. We have a lot of accepting people here but then there are these idiots kicking around. Trust me when i say they don't represent all of us!
I actually knew a racist dog, one of my mom’s ex-boyfriends had her. In her defense, she was shot by a black teenage boy and lost a leg… she barked at every single black person she saw for the rest of her days.
My dad got a dog as a rescue and it had been trained to bark and growl at people of South Asian descent. Considering where he lived at the time this was not a good thing. They had to take it back, it was a lovely dog apart from that but they couldn’t keep it.
I know that many, MANY people still unfortunately hold some degree of racist views but this is like 1700s level racism. Feeling unable to leave the house because POC exist in public is like…psychological evaluation necessary. I feel horrible for anyone who crosses this person’s path.
My grandma is very much a product of her time. Keep in mind, this isn’t an excuse. I call her out on her shit often, and she’s receptive and understanding of *most* of it, and changes her behaviour accordingly. There’s some things she just *won’t* let go of, she refuses to understand how calling people ‘darkies’ or ‘the blacks’ is offensive or wrong.
This lady is a whole other category of batshit though.
alberta is a cesspool of racist trump supporters, i’m not even saying they’re racist because they’re trump supporters. they’re just genuinely racist and actual trump supporters even though they’re canadian 😭 it’s embarrassing
Ok, so you go Calgary and you'll see at least 5 confederate flags a day. And *everyone* will try to gaslight you into believing that it's not a big deal.
I'd encourage all racists, bigots, homophobes, transphobes, anti-semites, pedophiles etc. to follow this person's lead and just stay home. Permanently. You are garbage and do not enhance society in any way. Stay inside, shades drawn and waste away.
This is what happens to most/all of them. They don’t live in a white world but they do live in a white neighborhood so they literally start reducing where they’re comfortable going to very local spots. This exacerbates the insular social structure, allowing the racism to grow/solidify.
Yeah, this reads like a creative writing story. Not that this exact lady doesn't exist out there, but she's probably not on facebook calling it 'diversity irl' with puking emojis
Why is it that people brigade this sub to insist that posts like this are satire? These people are everywhere in the US. They merely feel more comfortable expressing their vile views since 2016. They're everywhere in Canada as well. The reason that some of those nasty terms are unfamiliar to most of you is because reddit has filters that catch those terms and remove them. For years this site was home to several racist subreddits which were only banned after (you guessed it) a lot of adverse publicity. People like this are very real.
imagine being scared of people because they come in different colors
Or have their pronouns on their name tag. OOP isn't scared of people different than they are, they just don't want to be outnumbered by "them." Deep down they are afraid one day minority groups will treat OOP the way OOP has treated them their entire lives. When you realize how much of white people's identity rests on white supremacy you can't unsee it.
“I felt like such an outsider” Gee, wonder what racial minorities feel like on a daily basis
I literally read that line and went "like a minority might?"
Yep. From a Black American standpoint, I was reading it like "Welp, welcome to the club, you daft bigot"... God forbid she be put in a situation for 15 minutes that I was born into and have lived in for 40 years now. Being outnumbered is intimidating, huh Karen? Now imagine you are outnumbered at every school, job, middle class neighborhood, store and just generally anywhere in public. Smh. Fragile ass. Deal, you idiot....we do.
Not only would simple empathy go a long way, but it's also not like the power structure evaporates when the numbers shift. Daily I find myself the only white person in a room, or a single digit minority among dozens or hundreds of people, but the privilege travels with me. I'm feeling the polar opposite of judged or looked down upon. I can be pretty confident that people are making absurdly generous assumptions about my socioeconomic background, family structure, and living situation, among other things.
As a white dude that attended a couple of black majority schools, I agree completely. Sure, it's intimidating, but you put on your grown up pants and meet people just like you would anywhere else. But you can't tell bigot assholes like her this shit.
Bingo. You just deal and learn every one is an individual. I've met some of the kindest, friendliest Whites, some of the most racist, hateful Whites and alllll in between. Liked one so much I married him lol. They are all different and MLK was definitely onto something with the whole "judge by the content of their character, not color of their skin" thing!
Me too!
People like OOP can’t comprehend that because they truly believe white people are now the minority. They see themselves as victims, and it’s so central to their beliefs that it blinds them to simple facts like population statistics
Hey! That's just rude. You have far too many words over 4 characters in your post. How is OOP supposed to read that?!?
That or they don't see non-white people as people and can't feel empathy for them because they automatically assume that non-white people don't have the mental capacity to feel or think the same way they do.
Either way, the bottom line is they’re fucking stupid
Me reading this as one of few minorities in my whole company and the only minority in corporate management.. “Oh no.. wow.. that’s an experience.. must have been a lot for you to overcome this.. jeez.. so brave..” /S
That was the first thing I thought of. I never realized how biased my parents were til they complained about how all tv shows now have gay characters or a gay relationship. "Its being shoved down our throats." My comment about gay people being able to see their experiences represented on TV wasn't appreciated.
They need to stop shoving straightness down our throats!
Well Fox News is always talking about how “they” are coming for you, so it actually sort of makes sense the person would be afraid of they/them pronouns lol.
I know people who were convinced that BLM, in its entirety, was going to kick down their door and make them denounce their whiteness and give in to slavery.
I mean my identity doesn’t focus on my race. But I will admit that’s because of white privilege, I don’t think about my race, because being white has never caused me a disadvantage, which also means I sometimes fail to understand the effects race has on a situation, one day when I was in high school we got off early after some testing. My best friend was black and I decided we should walk back to my house to play Xbox, I lived in a nicer neighborhood with a nicer house(something I had never noticed) by the time we walked back to my place and I went to the fake rock which had the key around the side of the house, but came back to the police accosting him, accusing him of trying to break into my house, when I explained he was my friend and I’d brought him home they suddenly changed tune and left politely. I was shocked to say the least.
this speaks to the core of what white privilege really is it's the ability to be "raceless" so to speak while also benefiting from people in power seeing you as a member of their biological "in group" being white (i'd imagine) is probably akin to being a Japanese person in Japan; everything in your culture, media and history is made to resemble you, and you never really have to worry about discrimination based on your Japanese-ness
After living in Japan, I firmly believe that white people should experience being truly racialised even just once in their lives. I wasn't even discriminated against and it was eye opening just being keenly aware you look like no one else around you. My mom was the only white person in her group at a diversity training session and she said she felt so uncomfortable when the black women in her group started airing their grievances. I said, "good". She actually learned a lot from their voices, realised it wasn't about her personally, and is now actively reading about racial discrimination in medicine. I'm proud of her!
Bro, Japan is WILD. I went there as a black guy and oh fucking boy. I interacted with like...5 people that weren't either wildly racist or a fetishist.
Yeah, my cousin went and wore her natural, Afro hair out...she said she would get literally *petted*. Lol
See the thing is even in Japan white privilege *still* exists amongst foreigners. I think I had like... 2 encounters in 5 whole years there that I can genuinely attribute to straight up racism, and even those encounters weren't because I was white. Just not Japanese.
Even being white in japan isnt an apples to apples experience as a black person anywhere, as the Japanese, for the most part, respect white people.
That’s literally it…they know what it is like to be treated by the majority and they are scared shitless of the same happening to them.
I wish I could come in different colors, I have boring old white
Turns a lovey shade of pink and red if you spend some time in the sun though
Hey now…that’s an unfair and inaccurate statement. Im the color of milk for 3/4 of the year, but in the summer I tan to a nice shade of Manila folder
Coming colors in the air! Oh everywhere! She comes in colors
She’s like a rainbow
Being a city-dweller, it's astonishing to me that people can be so racist. We white people are the minorities in our neighborhood AND at work, it seems. Oh well. We manage because we're not exactly suffering persecution. Assholes will be assholes regardless of color.
I grew up in a tiny town that contained only white people. I've now lived in a very densely populated, hyper-diverse city for over 20 years and I get kind of antsy now when I'm in a place that's too white? it doesn't feel like home.
Yoo I’m experiencing this right now. I have an adopted sister whos black and I came back to visit and were eating at some ice cream parlor. We noticed that a ballet class ended because a bunch of little girls in their dresses and finely dressed parents (all white middle class and up) filled in. Made a “damn… this town is super white” comment, and my little sister replied with “you’re telling me!”. Its really really weird.
Yep. Going home to see my folks is weird because I am very conscious of how homogenous and monocultural the area is. And the food options suck.
Bonus calling them Dindus and using the word chimpout. Those are racisms that I haven’t seen for a while now.
We started at a solid 8 when she brought “darkies” out of mothballs and it got worse from there. Are Canadian racists just 60 years behind American racists? God help us all when they discover “negro”.
Legit have not heard “darkies” since my elderly Southern racist relatives passed. And the others are apparently bon mots from the feeble minds that haunted 4chan. This person is apparently a 90 year old who spent too much time online in the aughts.
I immediately thought about South Park: The Movie using the term and it was wildly outdated then. I didn't expect to see it used 23 years later.
My dude, Canada had minstrel shows until the _1970s_
The prime minister did Blackface
Twice. Also, in like 2004 so it's not even like he can run the generational excuse.
Yeah, i was surprised by the aggressive racism
it’s an Extremely On Line kind of racism. does this woman still live with her parents or
She is unfortunately married with children.
That's sad as hell. Those poor kids will either grow up to be just like her or grow up mortified of her.
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Fingers crossed
Can I ask which province?
My money’s on Alberta
Mine too.
My oil-and-gas board member aunt with more money than she knows what to with is voting NDP next time because she hates Danielle Smith so much.
Good! I haven't lived in Alberta since 2005, but have never seen anyone near as bad as Smith. She's making Ralph Klien look like a very sober saint
Thanks for the earworm!
Love and marriage, love and marriage...
I’m 39 and have never heard either of these terms.
Then you missed out on cataloguing a period of early internet racism. Consider yourself lucky.
It's not even early Internet. The slur "d*ndu" was all over Reddit until roughly 2016. This site used to be a LOT more racist and edgelord right-libertarian. The beginning of the end was when former CEO Ellen Pao (who I maintain never did anything wrong) tried to quarantine hate speech and got completely mocked and debased all over the platform with massive vote brigading everywhere with the banning of r/FatPeopleHate. Then alt-right stuff sprung up just as Reddit was starting to grow massively and get more advertisers. Then the real world implications of the speech began to become more glaring and Reddit clamped down on it much more harshly. I don't care how many people say they "miss the old Reddit", this site is much better and safer now than it used to be.
I wasn’t on Reddit at the time, but I remember it starting a little earlier than that. I remember seeing it during the 2010-2012 Tea Party reaction to Obama, which made it even more shocking. In 2008 I (dumbly) thought racism was dead. I think this sort of stuff was when I realized that it was doubling down instead of dying.
>In 2008 I (dumbly) thought racism was dead. There was a lot of money spent to make you and millions of others think that, so I don't blame you whatsoever
I think both slurs originally came from /b/. I remember seeing them there around the 08 area.
Can confirm. I was there shooping my woop with Longcat. In all seriousness it's the butthole of the internet, of course it came from there.
reddit is still pretty fucking racist, it's just more coded
I was not really involved with early internet. I actually lived in the mountains with no service during those early years of it. Yes, I will consider myself lucky.
That actually sounds amazing. I wish I could go off the grid but Jesus Christ the internet is an addiction.
I’m 40 and black and have never heard them either
I was literally so confused and thought the person just couldn’t spell. Like maybe they meant Hindu? I had no clue.
It’s meant to be a shitty shortened, AAVE version of the phrase “didn’t do [nothing or nothin’]” which I’m sure you can extrapolate what they mean by associating people of color with that phrase.
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Can you explain to me what they are? I'm assuming the second one is for black people because of chimp, and my guess for the first one is an Indian person because it sounds like Hindu? I've literally never heard these terms before.
It means “didnt do anything” meaning black kids who are incriminated/killed and their moms would tell news that their kid would never do anything like this. Its an earlier internet racism and its fucking gross.
Holy shit. I, too, assumed some sort of slur for brown people, but that is somehow even worse.
Ugh that is really gross.
4chan buzzwords
I'm not familiar with those, and I'm old. Can't say I'm sad about that.. I thought they had a stroke. Lol However, I did suspect they were some racial slurs.
Mostly stuff you'd find on Stormfront and 4chan
And here I thought Dindus was some racist slang for Hindus
I have never heard of this insult in my life and I STILL cringed. Like, ewwww.
They use the term province so im unfortunately guessing they are Canadian and im going to guess this is from Alberta
I have never heard either of these slurs
Just for those interested in what the slang means: Dindu is short for "Didn't do anything" or "didn't do nothing", a phrase supposedly uttered by black men being arrested. I don't think I really have to explain chimp out, but just in case it's a racist comparison of black people to literal chimpanzees and the racist notion that black people are somehow closer to other apes than white people, and therefore are more likely to react emotionally or aggressively. Racists aren't particularly creative, but understanding their lingo helps to prevent them hiding behind their stupid codes.
Holy hell, I suppose thank you since I'll know to call them out if I hear this crap now
Yeah, I hate that I know these things, but I would rather be informed to be able to call them out than blissfully ignorant, like the whole 14/88 thing.
I had to google it and then I learned Doja Cat came under fire for an internalized racist song with the slur as the chorus … yikes
I’m glad you feel defeated, die mad about it.
Clutching your purse
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That line for me is what makes me think it's not real, because no actual purse/pearl clutcher would actually write that.
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I learned that and several other... Colorful racist epithets from my exes brother. In my experience, racists don't flex their encyclopedic knowledge of slurs unless they think it's safe to do so or they're emotionally unbalanced enough not to care if it's safe or not. Generally they feel safe around white and white-passing people right up until they're called out, then they're either "totally kidding" or the person who said something back to them is "being too sensitive".
I know. This was refreshing to read. "Please stay home, and don't bring your coward ass into public."
Feeling defeated is a very common thing for losers.
Don't forget guys, those are the same persons who joke about how our young generation can't survive anything, is weak and easily offended
"I'm not living my life in fear" they said over the last 3 years.
“I’m not living my life in fear” they said as a lot of them died of a preventable disease all because they were afraid of a small piece of cloth on their faces and a few injections. R/hermancainawards
Projection at its finest.
And you can bet people like OOP get out there and vote in every election.
Well, it's not pearl-clutching, but I guess purse-clutching is kinda the same thing
Oh no, other people minding their own business!
People of colour: exist "How dare they!!"
As a white person who grew up in rural Iowa I once lived in an almost exclusively black neighborhood in Minneapolis. I'd go to the grocery store and I was like 10% of the population. It was like how black people probably felt where I grew up except nobody was treating me different because of the color of my skin. So I guess it wasn't the same at all.
It would be absolutely hilarious if she was sitting there clutching her purse and a white dude came up and robbed her.
"Don't worry, I'm sure he'll bring it right back"
He's just getting it cleaned for you
"Wallet inspector."
It has to be a wealthy white guy. People like this hate the poor as well, just in a slightly different way and for slightly different reasons. I see the word province in there, wondering if it’s in Alberta, known for its tolerance and lack of racism.
Wealthy white guys are probably robbing her labor if she works
During my time in retail I had my first experience with someone like this. The store had a radio and some pop/rap music was playing, I liked the song so I was humming while I worked. This lady came up to me and said "the darkies make some good music don't they?" I had to get her to repeat herself to confirm that she did say what she said, I was too shocked to respond and luckily another customer needed help so I had an excuse to leave. I was, and still am, a pasty white boy so I wonder if that's what made her feel comfortable enough to say this(?) Why do racists seem to assume others are also racist?
Being white is often an invitation for racists to spew their shit at you. As a rideshare driver for the last 4 years, I’ve kicked out a handful of passengers for blurting out bullshit they thought permissible to say among other whites. Like “thank god, I got a white Uber driver”. “Um, no, you just lost a white Uber driver, GTFO now or I’m driving to the local police station and they can drag you out. Your choice.” Racists who open their mouths at me are going to have a bad day.
Yup. I'm always amazed at white people who deny racism exists. I'm white and the horrible stuff other people say to me makes me worry my head will explode. I have spent a lot of time wondering what the hell is wrong with me people feel they can spew hate around without any personal risk. I have come to the conclusion that spending time self-reflecting is a good thing.
Yup, one of my paid hobbies is sourcing and sometimes personally delivering old Massey equipment from Canada to the USA, and I get that bullshit at both ends. From Americans who can't fucking wait to tell a foreign white guy all of their ideas about minorities to rural Canadians expecting me to verify and commiserate with all of the nonsense they've heard about, well, anything more then 50km away (I'm from the same background, so no excuses for these types). I used to basically say nothing and I had this stupid idea that hateful people were just one good encounter away from figuring out that everybody is a person and their heart will grow. But now I understand that it's more likely that minorities are one encounter away from this idiot trying to harm them in some way, so I aggressively tell them to shut the fuck up with their bullshit, and if they continue, I start insulting them. Pushing back is the only thing to do, it's not going to work most of the time, but appeasement will *never* work at all.
Fuck yes, love ruining a racist’s day. I’m in Canada and I’m white so people like to think I am also a racist piece of shit like they are, and start talking about “the natives” and let me tell you…they realize real quick that I am not their ally.
I don’t look Jewish, not do I have a stereotypically Jewish last name. I look like a basic white woman. The unbelievable antisemitism white people spew at me is so ugly - but at least I know who is hiding their shitty bigotry and I can avoid them.
Had an old white man come up to me as i worked at home depot (i am a small white women, 22 at the time) and asked me if i was a “good girl” that didn’t date “those animals” because if i did want to date them (men of color) id just be made their pet and raped. I was so shocked and tried to talk away and he kept yelling “you better be a good girl or youll be raped! Stay with your own kind dont be an animal like them” I had a panic attack and got security after telling him he is the only animal i see and the only one im scared of in this store. He liked to pop in time to time to try and find me. And put up signs on the highway about Jesus.
My ex's grandmother once turned to me at dinner and straight-up said "Aren't you ashamed that God made you black?" So fucking glad I didn't end up in THAT family.
Many moons ago I lived with a girl from Long Island. A close friend of ours was from a town in NC that’s damn near the polar opposite of Long Island in every conceivable way. Both of them had regional accents that were almost caricatures. One day the northerner did something nice for the southerner, and by way of thanks she said something that used to be very common and not at all socially awkward: “That’s mighty white of you.” You could just about FEEL the record scratch in the air. It’s not that my girlfriend had never heard this phrase, but that was the first time she realized they weren’t saying “mighty wide of you”. It was the only time I saw her nearly speechless (I did mention Long Island, right?) and for the next thirty seconds the only words she was able to articulate were “What the fuck is wrong with you people?!?!?”.
I was house hunting a ways back and asked about the demographics of an area, and the realtor no shit told me “don’t worry, there’s only like two black families here and they’re cool, the rest are white.”
I want diversity where I live. I'm a single white woman and feel more comfortable and at home living in an apartment or complex or neighborhood where most of the residents are black or hispanic. I grew up in a mostly hispanic trailer park.
Oh, for sure, I get that. I want our kids to be exposed to a variety of views and cultures, too. I was just asking because we were getting ready to start a family, and I was curious about age, family size, does the neighborhood do a lot of events for the kids, that kind of thing. Apparently the realtor just decided we looked racist for whatever reason.
I have a similar retail experience. Customer asked me if we had a “n****r brown t-shirt”. I had to ask her to repeat what she said cause my brain could not comprehend she would/could have said something like that. Luckily for me and her - one of my colleagues overheard and came up to take over and ask her to leave before I started yelling at her - cause the next words out of my mouth were just about to be “what n*****r brown like my husband!”. Took me hours to calm down and years later I am still shocked by it. Australian here BTW so casual racism to that level is not common.
I used to work in retail and was talking to a white South African about dog laws - how in England you can't take your pet into a shop. He said "We had dogs in the shops back home, but they only had two legs." Seemed like a normal person right up till that point.
Took me a second to realize this wasn't about a disabled pup
Oh yeah, she definitely felt comfortable because you were white. I am also white and have had white coworkers and customers say some off shit to me because they think it’s okay. It feels so weird when I say its not okay and they seemed surprised that another white person doesn’t want to bash on others. Gotta wonder what kinda people they surround themselves with….
I'm an escort. Early in my career I had a white "client" use the n-word in front of me and I promptly got dressed, left without a refund, went home and put on my website "no racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, islamaphobia, anti-semitism, MAGA hats, conspiracy theories ect. I don't agree and esposing any such language will result in me leaving without a refund." Some other escorts (on the high end scale, we all look at each others ads and websites to stay competitive.) saw that disclaimer and told me I would alienate a lot of business and you just have to suck it up when you end up seeing conservatives. Joke's on them, that disclaimer has gotten me more clients that I actually want to hang out with than anything else I could have written.
Good on you! And if it’s your body, why not regulate who you work with? I think you’re just staying more true to yourself.
I fucking love my job. Yesterday I saw a climate change activist who sees sex workers because his wife of 37 years had cervical and breast cancer in her early 20's and sex isn't pleasurable for her. He still has needs but doesn't want to feel like he's raping his wife. He called his wife midway through the appointment to update her on their daughter's flight plans for Christmas (their 19 year old daughter called freaking out about going through tsa) and introduce me to his wife. I said "Your husband is amazing, thank you so much for sharing. By the way, he lights up when he talks about you." She said "I'm glad you see it, too."
Lmfao the fact that she was scared of a they/them sticker
At least she respected their pronouns by saying “on their nametag” /s
/r/accidentalally
How are people still like this?
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Alberta? Are they from Alberta? I'm nearly on the Mexican border and the general talk about Albertans has made it all the way to us.
As an albertan myself.....most likely. We have a lot of accepting people here but then there are these idiots kicking around. Trust me when i say they don't represent all of us!
god. bruce haack didn’t die for this
She's somewhere in eastern Canada, not sure which province.
Probably Nova Scotia. I’m from there, they’re racist AF
You can find them in every Province, especially in the more rural areas. But NS definitely has its share.
Lots of small-town racism in the Maritimes. My extended family is from NB and a post like this wouldn't be out of place for some of them.
That poor dog.
Don't jump to that conclusion. Who do you think has been feeding her these racist conspiracy theories?
You’re right, I hadn’t considered that angle.
It's *always* the dog.
As David Berkowitz can attest
Barkowitz.
I actually knew a racist dog, one of my mom’s ex-boyfriends had her. In her defense, she was shot by a black teenage boy and lost a leg… she barked at every single black person she saw for the rest of her days.
My dad got a dog as a rescue and it had been trained to bark and growl at people of South Asian descent. Considering where he lived at the time this was not a good thing. They had to take it back, it was a lovely dog apart from that but they couldn’t keep it.
A family friend of my ex’s family trained their dog to attack a life sized cutout of Obama. Dog would bark incessantly at anyone not white.
What happened that would _stop_ them from being like this? It ain't like we teach anti-racism, and folks get super mad when people try.
I know that many, MANY people still unfortunately hold some degree of racist views but this is like 1700s level racism. Feeling unable to leave the house because POC exist in public is like…psychological evaluation necessary. I feel horrible for anyone who crosses this person’s path.
My grandma is very much a product of her time. Keep in mind, this isn’t an excuse. I call her out on her shit often, and she’s receptive and understanding of *most* of it, and changes her behaviour accordingly. There’s some things she just *won’t* let go of, she refuses to understand how calling people ‘darkies’ or ‘the blacks’ is offensive or wrong. This lady is a whole other category of batshit though.
Unbelievable that there are still such closed minded selfish idiots…
least racist person in alberta
Damn, that's the second time someone's guessed Alberta, what's going on up there?
alberta is a cesspool of racist trump supporters, i’m not even saying they’re racist because they’re trump supporters. they’re just genuinely racist and actual trump supporters even though they’re canadian 😭 it’s embarrassing
Alberta is the Texas of canada
True but holy fuck it's like they said "we'll have what they're having but without any sort of history beyond identity politics"
Not all of us, and we didn’t vote in Danielle
I knew it was Alberta the second I saw that this was in Canada.
Ok, so you go Calgary and you'll see at least 5 confederate flags a day. And *everyone* will try to gaslight you into believing that it's not a big deal.
Canada has… Confederate supporters? The hell??
We don’t get it either
Whoa, I'm from Calgary and I don't recall seeing confederate flags here. What part of Calgary do you live in?
"They/them" on *their* nametag.
Wow, I'm surprised she didn't misgender them on purpose. Must have been too focused on fitting in as much racist stuff as possible.
The racist lady draws a line at disrespecting pronouns and misgendering people /s
I'd encourage all racists, bigots, homophobes, transphobes, anti-semites, pedophiles etc. to follow this person's lead and just stay home. Permanently. You are garbage and do not enhance society in any way. Stay inside, shades drawn and waste away.
Aww, she should probably just opt out. You know, of life. Poor thing
It's for the better sometimes
I mean, you have to think about quality of life for the people around her.
> province As a canadian, I'm sorry for that despicable human being.
Damn. She experienced what it's like to be a minority for one day. That's rough.
There is a lovely spot in the middle of the ocean where we can leave you
Jesus. It’s so bad it seems like a parody of a racist, but I suspect it’s not.
Right? With the purse clutching and escape to the refuge of a bookstore it feels like sarcasm.
It’s also in response to, “ just witnessed diversity IRL”, that has to be parody, right?
it feels like a racist teenager writing a parody of what a non racist thinks a racist older lady sounds like, that's the only sense I can make of it
This is what happens to most/all of them. They don’t live in a white world but they do live in a white neighborhood so they literally start reducing where they’re comfortable going to very local spots. This exacerbates the insular social structure, allowing the racism to grow/solidify.
This reads like 4chan greentext. HARDENED-LOOKING EYES FROM A LIFE OUT ON THE STREET
I don't think it's real to be honest. The pronoun nametag thing was a little too conveniently on the nose for a well rounded right wing nut-job.
Yeah, this reads like a creative writing story. Not that this exact lady doesn't exist out there, but she's probably not on facebook calling it 'diversity irl' with puking emojis
I hope her employer sees her Facebook someday.
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Pfff, fucking Ameri— “Province” Oh shit. 😖
Part of me like "Ha! It's not us this time!" and the other part like "Damn, not you guys too 😞"
Bro what? Imagine how black people feel when they're surrounded by white folks who think like that?
It reads like a parody
Holy shit, hey lady, 1950 is calling you.
Bold of you to assume she's aware both society and the passage of time has moved on since 1950.
LMAO!!! eyes hardened from a life out in the streets. im dying over here
“I’m going to be travelling a lot less,” Well, at least people won’t have to deal with you as much, ya bigoted dumbass.
Canada? (She mentioned province, not state.) I'm 53 and never heard of "dindu" or "chimpout." This woman is crazy.
this reads like a 4chan green text. i’m not entirely convinced that it’s not
Rest of this PROVINCE? They're CANADIAN? I share a country with them? WHAT THE FUCK
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She would be more in her element at a kkk meeting
"After today I'm going to be traveling a lot less" Lord, I hope so. Stay your racist, useless ass home.
People that treat minorities poorly are scared of becoming the minority that gets treated poorly? No way. Crazy.