I’ve lived in a big city for years now. Never seen anybody get mugged, or shot, or carjacked, despite doing activist work that often has me visiting poor minority neighborhoods.

The only time I ever really felt uneasy was when I had to walk alone at night through a neighborhood where all the businesses had bars on the windows. Worst thing that happened was a couple of people asking me for money, and they didn’t give me any shit when I said I didn’t carry cash.

But any time I visit the small town where I grew up there’s always someone or another acting like I came back from a fucking warzone lmao

  • Twink [none/use name]
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    291 year ago

    This isn’t just US conservatives. A Polish upper class lesbian I knew remarked on ethnicity a lot and told me to be wary of my neighbourhood due to “many ethnics” as she put it. Racism seems to be a universal rich people thing as well. :/

    • Mokey [none/use name]
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      221 year ago

      I just feel like there has to be some connection to all the dipshit racist Eastern Europeans who love America and Capitalism but hate communism

      • Twink [none/use name]
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        211 year ago

        I don’t recall her ever speaking of US or capitalism. She was possibly the richest person I’ve met in Europe and the cultural gap between rich raised rich and poor raised poor was too great. She had no friends in the country so I felt bad over leaving her be and kinda hoped she’d get better but she didn’t. She was the type not to think she’s racist because she fetishized black women.

      • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
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        91 year ago

        Eastern European libs fetishize USA, and it logically leads them into racism, because, of course, the only reason non-white people in the free, equal and rich US are disproportionately poor is because they are lazy and stupid.