#living in england also contributed to my internalised racism like. the amount of casual racism towards us is sickening | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

strawbeb · 3 years ago

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hi this is a psa that if ur not south asian u have no authority to decide what is/is not racist to us. y’all will cherry pick aspects of our cultures that u find ‘aesthetic’ and mock our accents and customs and appearances and languages and food in the same breath. i know this isn’t exclusive to south asians but none of y’all take us seriously when we talk about this and i’m sick of it. and if u have to go around asking a bunch of us if something is offensive until u find someone who says ‘i’m south asian and this doesn’t offend me’ that doesn’t make it any better. that one person doesn’t speak for a population of over 1.9 billion.

#do not derail this post if ur not south asian. u can reblog but don’t say stupid shit. listen to us. don’t speak over us.#i can’t speak for south asians who still live in their home country etc. bc my parents are immigrants #living in england also contributed to my internalised racism like. the amount of casual racism towards us is sickening #but with the advent of the internet you don’t have to go very far to see these things. which sucks ass.#shit like this was the reason i had so much internalised racism as a child #a CHILD. and it made me so miserable.#racism doesn’t always look like people being called slurs or being attacked. i’m not invalidating those types of racism #but microaggressions and racist ‘jokes’ make people think it’s okay to do those things #we are not overreacting when we tell you something you did or said was racist. you are overreacting by getting so defensive.#you’re embarrassing yourself and showing your true colours. if you get more offended by being called racist than when you see actual racism #you are part of the problem.#racism mention #racism tw #text #queue #mine

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