This happens in the north, too. I grew up in a reliably blue northern state, albeit in a very white area (and I am white myself.) After leaving for a few years as an adult (going to a very culturally-mixed area, in a southern state, ironically) and coming back, I was able to see all the casual racism that I hadn’t noticed before. So many people absolutely say shitty racist things when they think they’re with someone who will agree. They might be surface-level polite when in the presence of somebody brown or black, but as soon as the room’s full of white people again, that filter is gone.
Oh, there may have been words here and there, but nothing past that.
See, that’s what I consider “ambient racism”, you think or feel a certain way, maybe even talk about it.
Have fun with it.
The south? They had proper racism, proper “2x300lb guys picking fights with you because they know you can’t do anything and the cops won’t help while everyone watches, just to show they can”, followed by “chasing your ass with a baseball bat, swinging at you, but ‘It’s just a joke, man!’”
Not once, but daily.
And before you say they do it to each other, yeah they do, they’re all pieces of shit, but with brown people it gets real, had friends in the hospital, I barely escaped a few times. The friends were either black or jewish.
So please shove your ‘they used bad words’ bullshit up your ass, the south is a culture of literal slavery and genocide that didn’t end for 100 years after the war, and even then kept going, under the cover.
Never, ever experienced anything like that in any other part of the country. The south are just evil.
You know this, you saw it, but the difference between the south and the midwest is that when someone in the midwest is being racist, people call them out. In the south, almost never, it’s just laughs and pretending it didn’t happen.
This happens in the north, too. I grew up in a reliably blue northern state, albeit in a very white area (and I am white myself.) After leaving for a few years as an adult (going to a very culturally-mixed area, in a southern state, ironically) and coming back, I was able to see all the casual racism that I hadn’t noticed before. So many people absolutely say shitty racist things when they think they’re with someone who will agree. They might be surface-level polite when in the presence of somebody brown or black, but as soon as the room’s full of white people again, that filter is gone.
So I’m asian, and I didn’t experience that.
Oh, there may have been words here and there, but nothing past that.
See, that’s what I consider “ambient racism”, you think or feel a certain way, maybe even talk about it.
Have fun with it.
The south? They had proper racism, proper “2x300lb guys picking fights with you because they know you can’t do anything and the cops won’t help while everyone watches, just to show they can”, followed by “chasing your ass with a baseball bat, swinging at you, but ‘It’s just a joke, man!’”
Not once, but daily.
And before you say they do it to each other, yeah they do, they’re all pieces of shit, but with brown people it gets real, had friends in the hospital, I barely escaped a few times. The friends were either black or jewish.
So please shove your ‘they used bad words’ bullshit up your ass, the south is a culture of literal slavery and genocide that didn’t end for 100 years after the war, and even then kept going, under the cover.
Never, ever experienced anything like that in any other part of the country. The south are just evil.
You know this, you saw it, but the difference between the south and the midwest is that when someone in the midwest is being racist, people call them out. In the south, almost never, it’s just laughs and pretending it didn’t happen.