• AJMaxwell@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Because they usually talk shit toward people who don’t speak English, so they assume everyone around them speaking a different language is doing the same.

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          3 months ago

          We invented it to cover up our massive inferiority complex, clearly. American exceptionalism is the balls hanging from the hitch of our pickup truck of a country.

      • SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev
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        3 months ago

        Its racism, when people message me online and I am not 100% who it is or if it is weird, I response in my second language. If the person knows me, they respond in English and we have no problem. Scammers never reply to that language. But American’s get racist everytime because it looks close enough to Spanish. They are straight out of the idiot handbook; “Speak American”, “Me only habla American”, and sometimes it comes with slurs. Like fuck me for speaking a romance language.

  • GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    A few years ago, i was working in an entertainment company. One of the audio guys was called ‘Racist Dave,’ like he would introduce himself as such to clients.

    One day, he heard a coworker talking to his kid on the phone in Spanish. This was in LA, so that’s obviously completely unheard of. Dave decided to go on a 10 minute rant about how we’re in MURIKKKA AND WE ALL GOTTA SPEAK MURIKKKAN! I took offense to this, and so whenever he’d go out to the taco truck at lunch, I’d follow him and loudly ask him what the “MURRIKKKAN” word for “burrito” or “taco” was. If also all him to kindly use the “MURIKKKAN” names for all the cities we were operating in: “it’s not ‘Los Angeles,’ it’s The Angels, Dave! It’s not ‘San Diego,’ it’s Whales Vagina, DAVE!

    He quit ordering from the taco truck after two days.

    Fuck you, Dave.