Post AjHTXXxmAJ4d6bNGk4 by jamescrakemerani@hostux.social
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(DIR) Post #AjHSTbZehKlHByeHaa by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-06-25T08:35:58Z
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Yes, white guy, please tell me again how I’m white, just like you, when my elderly parents have only been able to visit us once in five years because of your racist policies.Yes, white guy, please tell me how I have all the same privilege as you as I get placed in the Brown folks room at Brussels airport.Yes, white guy, erase who I am and discount my lived experiences.When they start rounding us up, be sure to put in a good word for me, won’t you? Y’know, since we’re both white and all.
(DIR) Post #AjHT5qDehCyDcLagyW by db0@hachyderm.io
2024-06-25T08:42:53Z
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@aral There's a brown folks room in Brussels airport?!
(DIR) Post #AjHTG5fG7rMAPqOCf2 by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-06-25T08:44:46Z
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@db0 Just one, as far as I know. It’s where the Brown folks are taken after being racially profiled at the border.I was lucky enough to partake of its hospitality last year after attending a conference there.
(DIR) Post #AjHTXXxmAJ4d6bNGk4 by jamescrakemerani@hostux.social
2024-06-25T08:47:54Z
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@aral @db0 what do they do?
(DIR) Post #AjHTc9watY443l1Mbg by greenWhale@dice.camp
2024-06-25T08:48:42Z
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@aralI'm truly sorry my country isn't more enlightened and has treated you like that. If at all possible, I?ll?pay you reparations on your next visit in the form of drinks on me. 💚 @db0
(DIR) Post #AjHU7vdZcfOCxFGzSq by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-06-25T08:54:27Z
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@jamescrakemerani @db0 A policeman leads you out of the main area of the airport into the bowels of the airport where you get to sit with your own kind while they run lots of different checks.In Brussels, they even had Belgian citizens of Turkish background in the room. Visually, I stand out…It’s funny how the airport police look at you as if you were hiding something by being white-passing, like you fooled them, when they see your place of birth…
(DIR) Post #AjHUOKbyXLOX2nLZfU by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-06-25T08:57:29Z
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@jamescrakemerani @db0 … anyway, both times, in Brussels and in the US, after a while some higher-level guy came and got me. Special treatment for being white-passing. Both times they were very sorry I was taken there (US guy, “I’m not sure what happened. You should never been in that room.”) At least I was brave enough to tell the Belgian guy I knew exactly why it happened (racial profiling) and also why I was getting special treatment (because white-passing).
(DIR) Post #AjHUcZ9TH0G0C5nmKW by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-06-25T08:59:59Z
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@jamescrakemerani @db0 So, being white-passing, you get to take advantage of white privileged to a degree. But you’re not white. And boy do they love to remind of that when it comes to the things that matter.
(DIR) Post #AjHUyb42qLZOUpljWK by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-06-25T09:04:02Z
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@greenWhale @db0 Don’t be ridiculous. You’re not responsible for systemic racism and some petty tyrant border-control guy.But sure, drinks sounds good :)💕
(DIR) Post #AjHV2IHQclLLOen9fs by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-06-25T09:04:19Z
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@tobyx 💕
(DIR) Post #AjHW989skrHHzC5OSW by greenWhale@dice.camp
2024-06-25T09:12:08Z
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@aral Don't take the train from Brussel to Gent on a sunny day then. The police are actually encouraged to just force the brown people on the train back. They describe it as 'Brusselse jongeren' (youth from Brussels), but everyone knows what they mean by that. Fun fact: the one in charge of this police force is a so called 'progressive.' @jamescrakemerani @db0
(DIR) Post #AjHXUVqTyvgRUAltzs by unexpectedteapot@social.linux.pizza
2024-06-25T09:32:13Z
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@aral it just shows how unaware many people on here of Middle-Eastern people's experiences in the West. I have had to intervene multiple times on different parts of the Fediverse to lecture what seems to be completely ignorant people on how it is over here for us and how it is over there (where they live) for us too.Same well-meaning people who would ignorantly welcome with open arms the Islamofascism that many of us run from to the West. I hope some day we can talk about that...
(DIR) Post #AjHY1cOodUPRMscIOu by nlovsund@mastodon.acc.sunet.se
2024-06-25T09:38:07Z
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@aral People carrying around their very local structure-of-oppression lenses and applying it everywhere to everyone.There's definitely a "wrong minority" trap, where you are not perceived as suffering "enough" or benefitting "more", and it will be wielded against you.
(DIR) Post #AjHYzRllHpaRm6sUbY by datafuzz@mastodon.xyz
2024-06-25T09:48:58Z
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@aral even though i had been in the US several times and i had a student visa and i was just returning from the semester break and had a connection flight to my small college town, they held me 6 hours sitting no phone, eating or drinking allowed and released me at the exact time my plane took off. i had to sleep in the airport after a 10 hour flight plus 6 hour mandatory sitting. after that i was done with the whole US of A thing.
(DIR) Post #AjHeTF9FHB0x5atDXc by jaze@toot.io
2024-06-25T10:50:22Z
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@aral On a trip back "home" (#USofA), months after 9/11, my Basque-origin surname doubled with my skin tone allowed for the privilege of a "wait right here" detention (along with partner + youngling) whilst some sort of security clearance took place after we disembarked from a plane en route to the baggage claim area. We got cleared after some long minutes and that ceremonial "welcome home" at the ID check gate was like some sarcastic joke.As for "whitness": https://toot.io/@jaze/112570603135876446
(DIR) Post #AjHmFCcqeoSeqRYHho by jarno@mastonederland.nl
2024-06-25T12:17:24Z
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@aral @jamescrakemerani @db0 WTF. I'm sorry this happened to you. It's always worse than you think. Thank you for educating.
(DIR) Post #AjHpBkOfSE4kHxxlw0 by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-06-25T12:50:31Z
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@datafuzz Sorry that happened to you. But yes, there’s a reason I am very picky about visiting the US. It has to be worth the potential of being treated like you’re not human.
(DIR) Post #AjHpYlVPUwMqO75o3s by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-06-25T12:54:37Z
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@jarno @jamescrakemerani @db0 Thanks. It happens. And way more often to folks who aren’t white passing. Just witnessed an Arabic guy with his elderly mother get racially profiled at Schipol the other week. It was embarrassing. For the Netherlands, that is.
(DIR) Post #AjHqnQnqqsGgThH9Bg by datafuzz@mastodon.xyz
2024-06-25T13:08:23Z
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@aral thanks. no worries. also this was before trump and covid.not knowing how it is to be in that situation is a privilege. turkish people are white while we are useful and complicit otherwise we are very brown.
(DIR) Post #AjHzWJdP9Mp0uTIpEG by uncapybarable@mastodon.social
2024-06-25T14:46:13Z
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@aral Just got blocked by a white guy attempting to explain race and discrimination to me. I'm a black American. I'm really unclear on how some of these people navigate the world. Have they not read a newspaper or a history book, like, ever? They grok the idea of race as a mutable thing, I guess, but cannot relate that to how people of all sorts of from the Middle East of all sorts of ethnicities are treated in the West.
(DIR) Post #AjJcO2AZ26JgGDCTCq by Sofie_unlabeled@chaos.social
2024-06-26T09:36:26Z
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@aral What a shit- system at all, how fucking assholes helpers. @tobyx