When I was about that age, in Finland, and we were in the Mayday fair, my dad bought me a literal black face, as in a rubber mask that covered your face and was EXTREMELY racist, with like the worst 19th century racist drawing of a generic sub-Saharan African you could think of. The whole 9 yards. No. 900 yards.

I found the mask like a few years ago while we were cleaning out grandmas house and man, the shame I felt. shudder

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Damn.

Your post reminded me of being 10 when 9/11 happened. The amount of racist hate that I saw on a daily basis is absolutely disgusting to me. All that fuckin’ nationalism really turned a lot of people into monsters. Even me.

Shit, I remember a friend of mine who was suspended for calling a Muslim girl a “sand n*”. All my dumbass 12 year old friends, including me, going on about freedom of speech. Fuck. I fucking hate Amerikkka, bro.

[–] Dasus 2 points 5 days ago

Well this was like at most 2-4 years earlier than that, so around the same time.

I'm not even American. I'm Finnish. I don't think you'd understand how prevalent racism here is. Like even the stereotypical hippie girls, you know? Like it's a sort of somewhat casual racism, but it's very deep in the society.

My therapist who's British originally told me how he was in a sauna one day and the discussion turned to something political and that the people just threw out the n-word so casually. And this was like just this year, uh, last year I mean.

Yeah the "sand n" word is used her as well, pfff.

Like genuinely I've gotten into a lot of trouble for calling people out for those things. Which is like... honestly. I get looked down on for saying that we shouldn't use racial slurs? Like genuinely, you'll get more disgusted looks in Finland by saying "you shouldn't use the n-word" then you would by saying the n-word. Perhaps it's different in the capital area and the younger gens? I fucking hope it is.