What’s the worst racist incident you have experienced?

[Hope54321]

I’ve had quite a few:

Students in secondary school have pulled my hijab off.

After the 9/11 a group of boys threw paper balls at me and shouted “Taliban” at me.

The day after a terror attack in London, a man pulled his window down and called me a dumb whore. There was no one else around.

Walking back from school, a man told me, “Go back to your own country”.

On my way to college, I got on the bus and a woman said, “I don’t know why you would want to draw attention to yourself by wearing that”.

How do you know who's white

Only on page 3 but I know what you mean. I had such high hopes when I opened this thread to them be disappointed so quickly, especially at the not so subtle racism in some of these posts.

Yes but ginger isn't a race is it? So not really relevant to the question.

Who appointed you MN moderator? You don't get to decide who is and who isn't allowed to share their experiences on a public forum.

That was to spanishsummers in case it wasn't obvious.

It's some one being singled out for the colour of their skin/hair?

Yep exactly this. Perfect quote for the uneducated or the ones who are people purposely obtuse as another excellent poster put it

I lived in a rough town for a year as a kid because we didn’t realise it’s reputation before moving there. At school every single pupil was white, and one day an asian girl in a hijab came for a look round at lunch time and almost the entire school started throwing paper balls and stones and rubbish at her and shouting horrible racist things. She didn’t know what to do so was just smiling politely the poor girl, she looked lovely. The headteacher was shouting for everybody to stop but he honestly looked amused😡

My home town was mostly nice, but it had a large muslim community so there was lots of racism from both sides. The thing that stood out to me the most was that the muslim perpetrators were always men, but it was always the muslim women who ended up being racially abused. Disgusting.

I've done it to myself by reading I know, but I am sat here with tears in my eyes. This thread is depressing on so many levels. I can't even begin to articulate....

Claiming reverse racism is just a way to shut other people down so they can't speak of their own experiences. It's not helpful and it's just creates more division.

Again, excellent comment!

I wish this thread hadn't been derailed into a linguistical tongue-tying cesspit, as per usual, as people are no longer sharing their experiences.

Another excellent comment. A lot of people would like to be oppressed and are so quick to shout racism (like a few posters on this thread).

Some things mentioned on here are upsetting, rude and at best racial prejudice. That is not racism.

Haha you heard about that too did you😂
What an absolute slap in the face. He should have kept his mouth shut!

At school every single pupil was white, and one day an asian girl in a hijab came for a look round at lunch time and almost the entire school started throwing paper balls and stones and rubbish at her and shouting horrible racist things. She didn’t know what to do so was just smiling politely the poor girl, she looked lovely. The headteacher was shouting for everybody to stop but he honestly looked amused

That sounds like a horribly coordinated preplanned attack. Balls of paper, stones and rubbish, thrown by almost the entire school? I'm surprised it didn't make the news 😤

I'm surprised that didn't make the news as well. Incredible. Isn't it.

This thread is heart breaking. Over and over again. Thank you @Heistonabike and @afterthestormagain for being able to articulate with a voice of reason.
I try to, but sometimes I find myself unable to as its all just so triggering.

Oh my goodness. I understand the broader dynamics that you're talking about have their place in less anecdotal and more theoretical and systemic discussions, OF COURSE they do, but this WAS a thread simply about people relating their personal experiences, not a DING DONG match of 'well, that's not good enough to be on this thread'.

Are you really turning round to every Jewish/Irish/white British/etc. person on here and saying directly to those posters, 'Oh hey, your horrible experience of X/Y/Z, well, silly you for posting on here because how ''white privileged'' you are for experiencing your rape/physical violence/intimidation/discriminatory language!' How crass and upsetting.

Some of mine are,

• being called blick in school because I was quite dark
• classmates saying ’where’s pedropony’ whenever the lights were turned off in the room
• being called an ‘angry black woman’ MANY times when I’m more than calm
• being dismissed and told by a midwife that I don’t ‘look as if I’m in pain’ despite having three surgeries after having my daughter and the inability to move my neck and head
• entering a pub in Trafalgur square with my cousin and being started at so much that we had to leave. We actually got told the pub ‘wasn’t for people like us’ and that was only about 6 years.

I can go on and on and on. Growing up as a black woman in South London zone 1 which has now become massively gentrified. It’s hard to NOT experience racism on a weekly basis. It is what it is though. Nothing will ever change. I just have to raise both of my kids to love their skin and don’t let society make them feel that they’re lesser than anyone just because of their skin

These threads as they always end up the same way.

Posters forget that there are two different definitions of racism (at least two)
One that is based on sociology
Prejudice + power = racism
and individual racism where anybody can be racist against anyone different to them.

I have noticed that a lot of racist people like to use the first to excuse their use of the second.

@oohfancythat aren’t you tired of going back and forth with people over the same thing?

There’s been many examples are that are simply not racism. Upsetting, rude, discriminatory and even racial prejudice, yes. However people should be wise enough to learn the difference. It’s really that simple

@oohfancythat
@FrippEnos
There are lots of sane intelligent people lurking at home agreeing with you but won't enter the discussion in fear of being labelled racist.

Can I asked what happened within the school setting to the students? All your examples are horrific and I truly hope within the school setting you were 1. Supported by the senior team and 2. Students were appropriately dealt with

This exactly!

I'm definitely confused by some of the points on this thread. Some anti-semitism is rooted in racism but are people saying it isn't?