KLAMarine said:
Immersiveunreality said:
Oh,i'm not really a vengeful person and i'm not really feeling harassed or abused anymore.
I do not think it is healthy to be constantly thinking about "harming" others for the way they think,at best i can just change how they think by talking to them but a me against them mentality is mostly not constructive.
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You do you then. I'd want to spotlight any and all abuses so as to prevent it from happening again.
tsogud said:
Yes because of color. I'm a light skinned mixed raced Mexican and I can tell you, from personal experience, I have to deal with my fair share of racists but my darker brothers and sisters have it harder than me due to the darker color of their skin. It's called colorism and it works in tandem with racism. Reading about it wouldn't do you any harm.
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What do you have to deal with. I'm curious.
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A lot, especially when I was younger in my formative years. There was a time when I felt ashamed of being who I was. People would falsely accuse me of being an immigrant and all the negative stigma that came with it effected me. I've had every racist stereotypical Mexican insult said or yelled at me at one time or another, "go back" insults are the most prevalent. Because of this I would intentionally lighten my skin and not go outside, I darken incredibly easily, in order to look as "white" as possible (it didn't really work.) And since I'm mixed there's a lot of racist shit I had to deal with even within my own family. At one of my jobs I had worked at, I was paid less than my white colleagues and they had the same job description and even had less experience than me. My brother had a similar issue in construction, he managed a group of people and he was being underpaid getting the same amount as the people under him, while his white colleagues with the same job description were getting paid the right wage.
That doesn't even begin to scratch the surface and people who are darker have it even more hard. I'm not gonna go through everything that's happened to me due to racism because it's just too much to count.