IBARW

[spelly]

According to shadydave and naturalblue208, it is International Blog Against Racism Week (ibarw), so I took a poke around some of the posts others have written, and I found a couple that I thought intriguing. One is by forthwritten - Where do you come from? and tielan's followup Why, Yes, I Speak Excellent English, Thank You For Noticing. Both document the experiences of being asked "where are

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[shadydave]

I think it was in Tielan's post where they said their "mean" response to "Your English is really good!" was "Thanks, so is yours!" and I thought that was totally not mean enough. That question deserves "Thanks, but yours is terrible! What was wrong with your school?"

[ahsavka]

I can't believe people actually say that. It's like ... did they really only have white friends growing up, or something?

I'm sure there's some asshole thing I do or say that I don't notice, even though I am trying to be a good human, but man. How sheltered do you have to be?

This was a good post, thanks.