Medgar Evers - New General Megathread for the 11th-12th of June 2025
Abracadaniel [he/him] @ Abracadaniel @hexbear.net 帖子 26评论 979加入于 2 yr. ago
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Abracadaniel [he/him] @ Abracadaniel @hexbear.net
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a (white) friend of mine, probably the least sinophobic person I know (maybe even sinophilic), dropped a slur ::: spoiler CW: slur china + man ::: out of sheer airheadedness and ignorance, in new company. it was in reference to their chinese ex. they were with their partner traveling to visit/meet that partner's old roommate and her (black) girlfriend. they realized in the moment that it was not an appropriate term to use and apologized profusely (bumbled that too but I'll skip the details). Afterward there was a lot of talk about the incident by the other 3 involed. Now my friend's partner (obv quite embarassed) will not be having my friend around any of her friends for the forseeable future because they "can't be trusted to keep a safe space for black people"
this friend already has deeply seated issues with shame and white guilt and this incident obviously severely exacerbated that. It's fallen to me to help them through this. While I understand their perspective and believe this was just a stupid brain fuckup, there's some complaining from them about having received zero grace and about unrealistic standards of language "policing" that I think need to be deconstructed a bit.
This person is very much an ally but deeply chaotic/anarchic (Think Jacques Gonsoulin). Hopefully this can be a wakeup call that what they say does actually matter and they can learn to be a bit more careful from now on.
what can I say but yikes? like godamm, what a mess.