Lets take racism.
White people: *exists*
Black people and "feminists": *discriminates against white people, hates them, and guilts a group of people into "reparations"*
Black people and "feminists": *not a single damn one of them is tried and sent to jail*
White people: I disag-
BP&"F": Lol look at this racist. Some scumbag wants to hurt us just becsuse of his fragile white pride lol kill all whities
BP&*F*: *allowed to have an entire platform to spout their shit, universities spout their same shit, certain ideas arent allowed to even be on the said public forum, all the while ideas about actual racism are being overlooked for "microaggressions" and "reparations" and not one of them is even being censored*
Sick of this shit.
Honestly, I always laugh when people say someone asking to touch their hair is a microagression. I'm white and have been asked that since I was young because I have super soft red hair, but you don't see me acting like people are being offensive for it.
@diyrogue is asking to touch someone's hair racism or something now? I have a hard time keeping up with what offends people these days.
Still, I feel exactly the same. It's not so bad if people ask (unless their hands are disgusting), but I've had coworkers or customers (<- these, mostly, idk if they feel more entitled or something) or just random people on the street come up and start touching my hair without warning, and it's like "does this look like a fucking petting zoo to you, mate?" Makes me think how much worse pregnant women must feel when people come up and start rubbing their bellies and stuff
It's supposedly a " microagression " so like low key racist or something ? But sometimes treated as if you yelled the n word depending on the person.
And yeah, if I ever get pregnant I will smack people if they start touching my belly without asking, especially strangers.
Wow, well I just read about some examples of micro aggressions, and, while some are valid, it's also kind of depressing that some others offend people so much-- especially if a question is asked by someone genuinely trying to get to know you better, but perhaps just worded poorly. I guess the solution is just to only talk about the weather-- provided you don't attempt to imply it's a nice day.
I used to have people try to touch my eyelashes (or say how much they wanted to) when I was younger, too. Or ask if I'd stolen any souls recently. Never occurred to me to get genuinely offended about it outside of the moment.
Idk what it is about pregnant people that makes anyone think its a good/okay idea to touch them, but I think it should be okay to at least break one finger per 30 seconds they're in contact with your stomach without your consent
It's always been this way but the level of civilization was such that they were just ignored to death. Literally, they would be ignored and if they pushed to hard would just be killed or thrown permanently in jail. It's only now when our civilization can support having such useless members that it's become such an issue.
When I ask someone where they're from, it's not meant to imply I don't believe or care if they were born in this country based on the color their skin. It's because I'm often times too lazy to say:
"Hello, fellow human! At some point in your lineage it appears a relation of yours may have been born in a location not enclosed within this country's borders! If you are white, there's a good chance it's europe.
Otherwise, it is likely you could almost be from any other part of the world. Perhaps, if it's not too much trouble, we could discuss this a little bit, because other cultures are interesting and, if your family still incorporates any of said culture into their current existence, it might be interesting to learn a bit about that, and, perhaps, even about YOU yourself. Or, perhaps, it would open a pathway about things such as do you still have family there? Are you, perchance, ever thinking about visiting that country? If not, where do you think you'd like to go instead?"
Guest makes a point from a perspective I’ve never heard and have never experienced. I will believe it is true, Folks are genuinely curious as to where I am from however I find that when they ask me where I am from they are usually want to do you input their own lineage and Educate me where as I know nothing about my cultural backgrounds myself and have nothing to provide for the conversation, that being said I find it is rude to ask somebody where they are “from”. It makes many of us feel invalidated as American citizens.
White people: *exists*
Black people and "feminists": *discriminates against white people, hates them, and guilts a group of people into "reparations"*
Black people and "feminists": *not a single damn one of them is tried and sent to jail*
White people: I disag-
BP&"F": Lol look at this racist. Some scumbag wants to hurt us just becsuse of his fragile white pride lol kill all whities
BP&*F*: *allowed to have an entire platform to spout their shit, universities spout their same shit, certain ideas arent allowed to even be on the said public forum, all the while ideas about actual racism are being overlooked for "microaggressions" and "reparations" and not one of them is even being censored*
Sick of this shit.
but I usually let people if my hair isn't in too weird of an updo and if they ask, really pisses me off when they don't ask
Still, I feel exactly the same. It's not so bad if people ask (unless their hands are disgusting), but I've had coworkers or customers (<- these, mostly, idk if they feel more entitled or something) or just random people on the street come up and start touching my hair without warning, and it's like "does this look like a fucking petting zoo to you, mate?" Makes me think how much worse pregnant women must feel when people come up and start rubbing their bellies and stuff
And yeah, if I ever get pregnant I will smack people if they start touching my belly without asking, especially strangers.
I used to have people try to touch my eyelashes (or say how much they wanted to) when I was younger, too. Or ask if I'd stolen any souls recently. Never occurred to me to get genuinely offended about it outside of the moment.
Idk what it is about pregnant people that makes anyone think its a good/okay idea to touch them, but I think it should be okay to at least break one finger per 30 seconds they're in contact with your stomach without your consent
"Hello, fellow human! At some point in your lineage it appears a relation of yours may have been born in a location not enclosed within this country's borders! If you are white, there's a good chance it's europe.
Otherwise, it is likely you could almost be from any other part of the world. Perhaps, if it's not too much trouble, we could discuss this a little bit, because other cultures are interesting and, if your family still incorporates any of said culture into their current existence, it might be interesting to learn a bit about that, and, perhaps, even about YOU yourself. Or, perhaps, it would open a pathway about things such as do you still have family there? Are you, perchance, ever thinking about visiting that country? If not, where do you think you'd like to go instead?"