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Damn.
Your post reminded me of being 10 when 9/11 happened. The amount of racist hate that I saw on a daily basis is absolutely disgusting to me. All that fuckin’ nationalism really turned a lot of people into monsters. Even me.
Shit, I remember a friend of mine who was suspended for calling a Muslim girl a “sand n*”. All my dumbass 12 year old friends, including me, going on about freedom of speech. Fuck. I fucking hate Amerikkka, bro.
Well this was like at most 2-4 years earlier than that, so around the same time.
I'm not even American. I'm Finnish. I don't think you'd understand how prevalent racism here is. Like even the stereotypical hippie girls, you know? Like it's a sort of somewhat casual racism, but it's very deep in the society.
My therapist who's British originally told me how he was in a sauna one day and the discussion turned to something political and that the people just threw out the n-word so casually. And this was like just this year, uh, last year I mean.
Yeah the "sand n" word is used her as well, pfff.
Like genuinely I've gotten into a lot of trouble for calling people out for those things. Which is like... honestly. I get looked down on for saying that we shouldn't use racial slurs? Like genuinely, you'll get more disgusted looks in Finland by saying "you shouldn't use the n-word" then you would by saying the n-word. Perhaps it's different in the capital area and the younger gens? I fucking hope it is.