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Okay this is gonna probably make absolutely zero sense, but I'm gonna try and explain:

(This might cause some brain damage and you might lose a few braincells from reading this)

For context, most of my family are US Citizens, we were all born in China.

My mom (and my dad, somewhat) is just so big on "Tough on crime", whenever there were alleged lootings during protests, my parents would be okay with them getting shot to death. Constantly blame "Democrats" for crime and the "migrant crisis". Also love their Wechat and constantly play (Chinese) nationalistic songs and other propaganda on the fucking speaker. Also, if you are dealing with severe depression, and temporarily can't work, they call you a "廢柴", basically the cantonese term equivalent of the term "useless eater".

My brother is into some crazy conspiracy theory that the Chinese Government is in a conspiracy to replace Han Chinese with, not only Chinese ethnic minorities, but African Migrants (like wtf dude), basically the equivalent of the "white replacement conspiracy theory" but in China instead (yea it sounds insane, doesn't it? Like... buddy, China doesn't even give permanent residency to foreigners, what the fuck is this insane conspiracy theory? Also, he's a US Citizen, why the fuck does he care?). Simultaneously, he opposes racism from white people in the US (... some crazy hypocrisy, isn't it? 🤨).

Tell me this isn't just me with the most insane family in the world.

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[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 38 points 6 days ago

It's kinda amazing how people are just so casually racist among people who they have more in common with than not, but skin color means so much more.

My mom was like that. Despite "having black friends" and all that rot, towards the end of her life after I moved out and left her homeless, she was so racist against POC. Like I distinctly remember the day my wife and I had stopped my and taken her to lunch out of pity, and we discussed her situation. At one point, when asked why she wasn't willing to try to get into public housing instead of living in a tent city, she told me she "didn't want to be a light in the dark."

If, unlike me at the time, you're baffled by what that means, she was saying she didn't want to live around black people. Despite having had black friends as roommates within the previous handful of years. I still played dumb and made her spell it out for me in crayon, because man is it fun to make 'not racist' people explain their racism in no uncertain terms and make them squirm as they try to dance around it.

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

I'm sorry to say it, but if your mom is living homeless, has the chance to not live homeless, but doesn't make the choice because of racism... I dunno, her situation is kind of deserved.

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

Preaching to the choir, friend. I knew she'd be homeless when I moved out, and still did it anyway. To add to the 'deserved situation' feeling, part of the reason I moved out was finding a shake and bake meth lab in the basement.

[-] weeeeum@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

Racist people hate being racist without plausible deniability. If they're gonna say racist shit, make them say it loud and clear

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