#anway someone started talking about zwarte piet and i heard a few comments (u know...dismissing the whole thing as its not racist)
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I’m straight up not having a good time at my internship
#its lunchtime and the political debate has been about zwarte piet these days. so im sitting w my coworkers from our ward and another ward#comes and sits at our table. one of my coworkers (from out ward) is working with the other ward today#anway someone started talking about zwarte piet and i heard a few comments (u know...dismissing the whole thing as its not racist)#so they are all agreeing about how its tradition and the protests are bullshit and no one ever had problems with it and suddenly we get all#these discussions. so i just kept quiet cuz u know. i dont have the energy to give my opinion while sitting with 7 white women#but then my coworker (the one whos working at the other ward today) was like ‘or do you think differently asma?’ and i told them my opinion#i could see everyones reaction like ‘so shes ones of them.....’ but i just felt like i had to say something. it was shitty to he started#down by 7 older white women but i still said i understand why people think its racist. and i dont think anyone wants this dutch tradition#to be fully gone but instead they want the roetveegpiet. which shouldnt be a big deal because no kid seems to have a problem with#roetveegpiet instead of zwarte piet.#their reactions were a little funny and scary at the same time#then that same coworker was like ‘imagine i go to an islamic country and i tell them i am diabetic and so no one can have sweets for eid.#that wouldnt be okay either’ and i just didnt react to that. im not gonna be able to change their mind anyway#but uh other than that todays been kinda shitty i keep feeling anxious and im tired and i just want to quit this whole fucking internship
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