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[-] xilliah@beehaw.org 5 points 4 months ago

Well, yesterday a cashier decided it was a good idea to tell me, a hippie looking transwoman, that she's not racist, but what is Turkey doing in European football? And yeah she immediately crossed that threshold and went on my asshole list.

Of course I can come up with a gazillion excuses for why she said that. She doesn't know our own history. She doesn't know geography. She's just trying to fit in to her social group. I can go on and on. But still, what she is saying is damaging on a purely racist basis. She is old enough to realize that.

However, I wouldn't use the word hate. I know what you mean, and that's what I am responding to rn, but I don't genuinely want to hate anyone. Hate is more corrosive to the vessel than that which it is poured upon.

[-] clark@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago

The history of pillaging and raping Serbians for 500 years? Or the part where Turkey’s land mass only covers about 3% of European territory?

[-] xilliah@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago
[-] clark@midwest.social 1 points 4 months ago
[-] xilliah@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago

Ionian Revolt, if we are just shouting historic events at each other?

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