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Black nb. I used to think it wouldn't happen to me anymore all the time, because I don't live south of the Mason-Dixon anymore. There's a such thing as 'being lucky'. You just haven't had cause to see it yet.
Settlers are the same the world over, regardless of what nation they're illegitimately holding.
Cool Australia has no racism, that's sick
I didn’t say that. I said the lived collected experience of Asians that I know (partner, workmate, friends) is that they haven’t experienced any direct racism for a decade plus. I’m not saying there’s no racism. Quite obviously there is in many variations, and yes there had been an increase during Covid. But I categorically do not believe that it has escalated like it has in places like the US and UK.
Are you serious? Australians are racist as fuck I see them doing it just as enthusiastically.
Answered this in other responses.
From what I'm seeing from Chinese students perspective, Australians seem about as bad as Americans and hate crimes have also ramped massively since COVID
Not to mention Australian media isn't any less racist or hawkish towards Chinese
Admittedly I've also heard similar, not even from PRC Chinese. From Asian diasporic groups, and from friends and family (who are Singaporean).
Yes clearly your partners opinion out weighs the many hundreds of Chinese nationals posting about their experiences on social media
Cracker ass move
"my partner hasn't experienced racism, therefore racism doesn't exist. You are just dismissing her lived experience"
I'm British moron
Bro I'm Australian there is literally at least one news story a week as well as entire book isles dedicated to yellow peril style "sneaky evil Chinese" shit.
Fingers crossed it doesn't get that way, then. Once I'd have liked to say the same about Canada (granted back then I also didn't realize how infinitely fucked some ever-ongoing things against the First Nations are) but whether it be "Chinese" (anyone looking east/southeast Asian), "Indians" (anyone looking brown), or "Muslims" (anyone looking generically west Asian/north African, or fitting the western stereotypes of Muslims in some aspect or another) I think any of the above could certainly happen, in some ways we're in the early phases of this (hate crimes and lone-wolf individual attacks with what may as well be state complicity).