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[–] SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Here's where you're wrong

Their litmus test for "people they think will agree with them" is just: be a white man.

I am a burly white dude. Tall, big beard, I look like I walked out of the mountains.... Unprompted, some white people will casually say some unhinged rascist shit to me. And have, many times.

One time there was a shooting nearby, a white maintenence worker told me about it, and then without missing a beat goes "it was two black guys shooting at eachother, so much for brotherly love, right?"

Another time, in a gas station up in the sticks, Im buying a can of monster. Some white stranger, unprompted, taps me on the shoulder starts telling me about how the logo is a Jewish letters for the sign of the devil.....

So, no, you dont have to be someone these people know.... you just have to a white man. They assume any white man (especially masculine presenting) is one of them.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yep this has been 100% my experience too. How do you deal with them?

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

depends on how much you want to fuck with em, in the case of jewphobia i like to give em a l'chaim.

"oh shit, the jews really are everywhere"

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I tend to look like a hippie that was forced to dress up for church and people definitely just assume I'll agree with their racist bullshit because I'm white.