Bobby1
December 12, 2016, 2:44am
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Re: Indirect racist comments
How do you respond? Like you’re shocked or surprised that a person or people you might have respected before, bring out another side of themselves. The times now are close to painful for Muslims and other brown minorities in our country(USA) and the world. Racists have a bigger voice now and they don’t have to hide or suppress their hate anymore.
Examples of what I’m talking about is I made cookies for a group of “friends” just to be close to them and as a nice gesture so I could integrate into their group. One of them that was someone I looked up to mentioned a news story he read about how one of the ISIS members had poisoned the rest of group and killed all of them… before eating one of my awesome cookies. I took it lightly and said “it’s a good thing because we’re talking about a bunch of terrorists, aka ISIS, they are below gutter level for killing innocents”. The fact that he brought up a situation like that before sampling some of the food I made was so painful.
How would you respond to indirect comments like that?
I mentor people to use sharp wit and don’t give people control over you to make you feel upset. You could just have laughed and said kind of like Europeans gave the natives smallpox..lol