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”.

Why insist I enter the rabbit hole? The intention is that I answer the question only to be drawn into hours of mental gymnastics & gaslighting.
This discussion has gone exactly the way it always would. The centring is very typical. Very typical & very boring.

As are the ambiguous remarks whenever questioned directly

@Simcha Two things can be true at the same time.

@Simcha meant afforded not provided !

I agree that being a white male brings advantages in certain circumstances which could be deemed a privilege. But categorising people as more or less privileged based on skin colour and gender (etc) is divisive and misses the full nuances of the human experience. Ultimately, in my view, humans are hard wired to want to be with people like themselves and we should all consciously resist this in our actions. If the world had historically been dominated by (say) black women rather than white men, then black women would now be 'privileged'. It is not a morally better position to be in one group or another, and the onus should be on all of us to make the world a better place.

@Tillsforthrills not ambiguous at all. I’ve said very clearly that I won’t be drawn into any nonsense. That statement is hardly a riddle is it.

No, you’ve made ambiguous statements and when asked directly about them you simply answer you won’t be dragged into a rabbit hole.

Anyway, I’m not interested in arguing either.

Sorry if people sharing their horrific experiences of racism isn't entertaining enough for you.

Exactly this.

@Brideandprejudice you’re completely off topic and you know it. My entertainment or lack of it is a figment of your imagination.
There are plenty of posters who know the difference between racism & hurt feelings. Enough for me not to have to spend the little bit of energy I’ve got for the week ahead and the daily racism I will face.

Nobody's claiming moral superiority?

Making the world a better place surely needs a bit of understanding of how we got here in the first place and of other people's perspectives. Understanding all the different aspects and layers of racism is no easy task and takes time but on here you just cannot ask a question or suggest anything without getting jumped on or name-called. So boring.

No it's not, you said the thread was boring.

What's funny is you have the energy to do multiple replies, but none to answer the question asked by many. You shouldn't make statements for effect if you're not going to stand behind them.

I’m not going to get into the debate about whether white people can experience racism, but my experience of white privilege is that people share ignorant observations about people of other races, oblivious to the fact that these may not be welcome. Individuals making these sorts of comments don’t get why they’re racist and get extremely defensive when challenged. One example was the decorator who regaled my mum with the hilarious tale of how he got a shock in one house when ‘a little black face’ appeared at the top of the stairs - the face belonged to the house owner, whose (white) husband had let him in. My dad refused to see why this was offensive and an argument ensued. Or the woman recounting her cruise experience who commented that the ‘little Filipinos’ who were the staff were so cute she just wanted to take them home with her.

I think in ‘polite’ circles racism tends to manifest as the above, and an out and out racist comment sticks out in my mind as it is unusual for people to share these views with me (privilege again): as a student I was going around a house share with the LL when he winked at me and said not to worry, he didn’t rent ‘to our Asian friends’. Couldn’t get out fast enough.

Some people on here are horrible.. this was a safe place OP is asking for experience's.

Sorry to everyone who has been in ANY of these situations.

Some of them are horrific

Fair few racists in this thread if you count the diminishing or denying of individual posters’ lived experiences of it I’m reading.

Having been the oppressed and targeted should make you less likely to exhibit said behaviours to others calling racist abuse out that they have experienced. This makes for a tragic irony and is an exercise in self as well as collective sabotage given the corrosiveness of the topic matter and the damage it causes.

"Me too me too" wow you are a delight aren't you

Are you actually serious? You have to be a troll with that "me too wow" comment.

If not, you have come on to a thread that was created for the purpose of people sharing their experiences, to complain that it's boring because it's just people sharing their experiences over and again? Maybe you're lucky enough not to have gone through the things so many of us on here have, but don't come here just to diminish people's often traumatic encounters of racism.

Again, you had the energy to reply though?

Yes.

Any reasoning on the matter will be called ‘silly arguments’ or ‘me too me too!’.

Some posters cannot see or look in the mirror and accept they are the ones guilty of precisely what they accuse others of.

Will the 'me too' brigade shut up and stop embarrassing us white people reading the thread. It's not about you at all.

The ironic thing here is that the white posters who are agreeing that white people can't ever be victims of racism, are actually the ones who are the most patronising to the non- white people.

These threads all go the same way. Stupid white people need educating... not racist at all.

If we want to build an inclusive society where we are equal, we need to stop reinforcing racial divides.

Very much males against females.
As an aside I never witnessed any racism (thankfully) towards my friend from Sri Lanka nor my friend from Pakistan heritage.

My poor friend with ginger hair, open season.

*These threads all go the same way. Stupid white people need educating... not racist at all.

If we want to build an inclusive society where we are equal, we need to stop reinforcing racial divides.*

This☝️

The other shocking instances of racism were what my very tall blonde polish friend told me living on China!!
She said it wasn't as bad in the cities but when she visited other more rural place's she's had everything from people gasping at her hair and eyes, to stroking her!

Looking at her like a goddess to pushing her, spitting at her and shouting at her!