I came to a point that I don't want to get to know my new co-workers anymore when they belong to the dominant ethnicity. Everytime it's like I'm a coin toss away from getting to hear some fucked up racist shit, just because I can pass as one of them. It's exhausting getting dissapointed constantly like this.
For me it's my mom. Growing up in a time and place where privilege was (and sadly still is) a thing for men in the dominant class/ethnicity, she taught me and my siblings to never yield to injustice and inequality. She was not very political aware, but lived her philosophy with her daily praxis. When I started learning about leftist ideology it felt like it fitted me like a glove.
I came to a point that I don't want to get to know my new co-workers anymore when they belong to the dominant ethnicity. Everytime it's like I'm a coin toss away from getting to hear some fucked up racist shit, just because I can pass as one of them. It's exhausting getting dissapointed constantly like this.