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[rebelheart3]

If I were a different person, it wouldn't have been funny.

If I weren't white, if English wasn't my native language, if I was genuinely poor.

It was funny, hilarious even--but that humour is predicated upon the ridiculousness of her claim.

To explain:

At work today, a woman (Irish, white, probably from a rural town) came up to me while I was just

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[keydar]

Makes you wonder what it would be like to evoke that kind of prejudicial response daily just by being non-white.

I'm glad you at least managed to speak to her afterward, as I'm sure most of the people she speaks to that way don't possess the same simple privilege we do of being able to defend ones-self. Maybe she'll actually rethink her bigoted perspective. It's too bad that if she does, it will only be because she mistook you for a non-'white' person. "Oh sorry, I mistook you for one of THEM, silly me!"

Seriously, I hope you run the party for her kids.

[beckalay]

Hmmm, well that sounds like an awkward and shocking experience (side note: why is the word awkward so awkward?). Way back in the ice age when I was in college, I ended up in a writing class that focused on hispanic immigrants and vividly remember an essay that one girl wrote and read in class about how she felt that she was a non-Spanish speaking Mexican. Other Mexicans assumed she could speak Spanish and derided her when she pointed out that she could only speak English. Not entirely sure what my point was here because Bren is watching a stupid show about boys doing idiotic things and I lost my train of thought. But what you said reminded me of that time. Look what happens when I try to make cohesive thoughts nowadays!

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