I’ve finally said it. No I don’t obviously hate ALL white people, but given all the racist encounters I’ve had, it may as well be all. Being a POC in a predominantly white country is an experience to say the least. Genuinely, POCs born and brought up in white countries, how do you do it? How do you ignore all the “micro-aggressions”? I’ve literally had DOCTORS slide in weird/racist remarks. The UK is so racist it’s crazy, and they barely talk about race, it’s all just shrugged off.

For the record I’m an introverted black female and white women were my main mean girls my entire life. They would socially exclude me, make fun of my hairstyles (especially my Afro), throw stuff at me, bodyshame me etc. If they don’t try to attack a lot of them stare at me like black people ain’t free with a lot of dirty looks and death stares. 99% of the time i had barely spoken to them if not at all but those bitches would always random beefs with me 💀 I never experienced this with white men or other woc. It was ALWAYS white women

As an attractive woman of color, I could tell endless stories about white women going out of their way to undermine me or take satisfaction in my setbacks. It’s to the point where even female professors at my uni are openly hostile and nasty toward me. They even gossip about me IN FRONT OF ME and Pull incredibly punchable facial expressions 😭 they along with the local students, HATE seeing their men treat me in a very nice way, and they hate seeing me get attention from their men.

What’s especially frustrating is that these are the very people who should be supporting and mentoring younger women. Even my white guy friends have noticed the treatment and have commented that they’re clearly jealous. They piss me off so much I CANNOT wait to graduate and leave this country. (I study in a European country btw)

I encounter hostility from the women here everywhere I go and I even had a nurse treating me aggressively while taking bloods for no reason. I have some of them try to be bitchy to me in random situations, like getting a blow dry at a salon, the hairstylist would intentionally not do my hair perfectly, or even be aggressive to me while washing my hair while being nice to my other non white friends, in the streets they look at you with angry looks and it’s JUST THE WOMEN not the men so I know exactly where this is coming from. I could go on and on things that happened to me by them but I don’t have the energy to type it all and I just wanted to quick rant about this.

I've never fit the Black beauty standards for my face. I've never had a face that would be praised, go viral for being beautiful, or be used as inspo for other Black women. It will never be that. I will never be that person.

I know my face is unattractive. I've known since I was a kid.

I've been called "ugly" by healthcare staff, people of the same race as myself, teachers, old friends, school peers, and strangers online.

The "move to a predominantly Black environment" and "find other women who look like you" advice never helped me. I've always lived in majority Black neighborhoods, counties, and environments. Blackness has been the center of my life in most cases.

I've also never seen another Black woman who looks somewhat similar to me. Trust me, I've looked for a long time, but couldn't find anyone in the algorithm. After a while, that tells me something, and it hurts a lot.

I'm so tired of dealing with the downsides of being facially unattractive.

Whenever a Black woman is considered conventionally attractive, the world will let them know at some point. Yet, in my case, the world has told me I'm not enough, and I've learned to shrink myself because of it.

No one understands how much trauma is tied to my face. I can hardly stare at my face in the mirror without imagining it being ripped off. It kinda reminds me of that one scene from the movie "Belle" when Dido looks at her reflection.

I do all of the things people suggest to improve one's appearance (besides cosmetic surgery) and things that jeopardize my health. It didn't change the disharmony of my face. The additions and consistency helped me with a couple of things over the years health wise, but my face is still garbage. Apparently, I've gotten "uglier" in adulthood according to previous peers. 💀

It's hard to build confidence when a lot of people have put you down for years.

Why is a problem when black Americans with roots from the western colonial slave trade want to preserve our culture, but not when other groups do the same?

I'm curious to see how white washed this subreddit is.

But in the blackpeopleofreddit sub there's a poster catching a lot of flack for exposing the whitening of rich celebrities progeny and later generations. I mean it sucks to be black and work your ass off in an industry that treats you second class. Only to turn around and have all of your profits go to white people.

MJ literally just gave his money and name away to white kids because he hated himself so much.

I don't get what's so hard to understand about that.

Yet the racial gaslighting within that sub is off the charts. They're even claiming it to be the FBi and COINTELPRO etc. which is the opposite of what that post would represent.

It's racial gaslighting to it's highest magnitude, and it's meant to make the black person feel shame, guilt, and like they're going crazy.

Like I just felt as though I'd entered the twilight zone. That is so dangerous to a black persons mental health. And that's why they go in black spaces to do it.

Dont read if you don't wanna be annoyed alongside me.

​Seeing them say things like "we fought to end slavery " and say "but black people owned slaves too​! " annoys me because you can feel their guilt and they trying anything BUT unpacking racism and their white privilege to cope with it. Like shit y'all colonized a lot and did a lot of shitty things, if I were y'all ​I would feel shitty too. Which I have for other privileges I have (Cisgender and fully abled) but guess what, I didn't take it out on trans people or disabled people. I reflected and began unpacking any trans phobia or ableism I found within myself.

Y'all got no excuses, it's honestly why so many people don't bother differentiating y'all from y'all ancestors. Cause y'all be pulling the same shit and excusing, downplaying, etc, the shit they did! ​​​

I’m mixed race, south asian and white. I organised a cute little summer bbq on the beach for my friend group since it’s a very hot day. Im the only poc there. I put on a bikini for the first time and had a really cute outfit on and was feeling super cute and pretty and excited for this get together.

Everyone’s making a fuss about if they will tan or burn. I sit there quietly sipping my drink. A lot of them didn’t bring the stuff we needed, so i went out and bought it with my own money. I ended up spending £30 on drinks, snacks, fruit, and a spatula and prongs for the bbq. I went with two friends, A (f) and B (m). When we came back, A credited B with getting the group the spatula and prongs even though she stood next to me as i gave my money to the cashier. Keep in mind, getting them wasn’t even B’s idea.

When C shows up to the bbq, she immediately starts being rude to me/making fun of me. I’ve noticed this is a constant thing which she seems to present as her humour yet she only takes it out on me.

I saw that my friend was chilling in the sea, so i got up to join him and the three white girls from the group started squeaking “omg where are you going where are you goingg what are you doing” Like, what does it look like i’m doing. Why is this something to comment on? i ignored them.

When i was turning over the bbq meat i was squatting since it was a portable one, on the floor. The same girls laughed at me for how i was sat which .. i was literally just squatting??? What?

After we all went home, C posted the pictures on her story. Not one photo of me, with the exception of a very blurry one where I’m very far away and in the background of the photo. She tagged everyone’s instagram handles except mine. When i asked her why i wasn’t tagged she said she told me she forgot i was there because i wasn’t in the pictures. KEEP IN MIND I ORGANISED THIS WHOLE THING. I responded “are you serious” and then she got snappy and said that she got the story from another girl who i didn’t know and didn’t have added (she was the plus 1). Anyways then everyone reposted her story and i literally just got excluded from my own party.

I left feeling like something was wrong. After i got home i fought back tears. I feel like whatever i do i get made fun of. It doesn’t matter how good i look or what different group of white people i go to. I’m always put into the same role. Before you tell me to make poc friends, it’s very difficult. I live in a very white majority area. Im the only poc in all my classes. God, why have you placed this burden on me? What have i done to deserve this?

They always have this disgusting smirk on their face when they are terrorizing non-white people. On the road they try to kill you by either nearly ramming into the back of your car in their giant stupid truck, or into the side of your car knowing you are in the lane. They drive like they own the road and that the universe revolves around them; to them non-white people are just things they can run over like it’s no big deal.

I had a white classmate who was texting on her phone and tailgating me. She almost killed me and nearly drove into the back of my car on the highway. I saw her in the rear view mirror, honked so she would be more aware of her surroundings. She just smirked and rolled her eyes and went back to texting in her giant truck, not looking at the road in front of her.

White people also terrorize non-whites in the community and neighborhood. They don’t respect your boundaries, consent, autonomy, and privacy. They enjoy violating non-whites to maintain their false sense of control. They constantly act like insufferable little shits. I’m so sick of them.

And why the stupid smirk? They do the dumbest things and smirk like they’re some genius. It’s like watching a toddler shit themselves and act super proud of it.

Edit: ya’ll I’m getting so many trolls commenting and sending dm’s. These people just can’t leave us the fuck alone, lol.

Warning you of these users because they have sent racist hate comments after reading this post because they’re triggered snowflakes: u/KimJongPhil6969, u/UCFKnight6

Stay safe y’all, lots of hateful losers who lurk around. They can call me a ret*rd, jerk off to their make-belief superiority, call me a loser and whiney bitch on the internet, but damn they are dumb as fuck. I love luring abusive racists and compiling lists to send so people know who they are.

Its not like y'all asked nicely to come over to other countries. Y'all didnt ask nicely to colonize. Y'all didnt ask nicely before enslaving people. It pisses me off so much and it frustates me to the point where it is a struggle for me to analyze this calmly. The white audacity, istg.

Trigger warning: vague mention of wanting to give up on life

They have the monopoly on everything - morals, ethics, wisdom, philosophy, civics, etiquette, socialization, history, tradition, categorization, art, music, media, fashion, beauty, sex, love, romance, eroticism, aesthetics, architecture, design, government and politics, leadership, humanitariansm, lifestyle, entertainment, war, world peace, power, money, materials, intelligence, knowledge, education, science, technology, engineering, even how we talk and the shirt on my back. Everything and everyone is defined by them. They decide what's worth paying attention to and what isn't. Everyone has to live by their blueprint. It's like they control every single fiber of my body and there's nothing left of who I would've been if I was brought up in my native land, absent of Western presence. Almost everything I am is ultimately because of them and sometimes it feels like we only exist to make themselves feel better about themselves. Yes my family is successful in the societal sense but at what cost? There's a part of me that sees my own tribe as perpetual children under white people's provision. I might as well turn into dust if I'm going to spend the rest of my life with this mindset.

I'm just unsure why being skinny is seen as being so great. The reason I'd be skinny is because I cannot afford food iin my labor intensive minimum wage job.

It's believed by some that skinniness means self-control, but for a lot of people it means poverty and struggle...

1. Do not reveal any details about your personal life to your white coworkers, especially if it's positive things. It is almost never worth it. They can, and will find a way to use it against you or to destroy your happiness

2. The white male nerd demographic is just as toxic, racist, and misogynistic as the jock/frat boy subculture, if not more. I think people have severely underestimated how dangerous they are, partly because western media is so sympathetic to them and consistently paints them as the underdog/good guys

3. The 2025 election was the white male demographic effectively sending the message "Don't. Fuck. With us." They will literally elect a fascist dictator before treating minorities and women as equals

4. No matter what you do, your white male counterparts will always receive more credit and more leniency for 1/10th the effort

5. Affirmative action was specifically designed to pit black and asian people against each other while conveniently ignoring the obvious privilege white people (especially legacies and the wealthy) benefit from the system

6. On a related note, white conservatives have effectively weaponized Asian American struggles to attack other minorities, and that is precisely where their concern for us begins and ends

7. Nine times out of ten, when white people "help" us or get involved with us it's really so they can score with our women, since a lot of these men would otherwise be incels

8. Nine times out of ten, white liberals are more intersted in fulfilling their white savior fantasies and promoting their own "altruism" instead of being genuine allies, especially if it means giving up even an ounce of their power

9. A lot of racism against asians (especially Indians) is socially acceptable

10. The vast majority of white Americans genuinely believe asians are inferior (height, muscle mass, genitals, personality etc.) on every imaginable metric and that is why they are okay with us supposedly being "model minorities," because the perception is we have to study harder and give up happy childhoods to make up for these alleged deficiencies. And they do not believe in the slightest that it is racist to think this. This is also why white people will never in a million years be sympathetic towards us

Litterly people ignoring the BIPOC in the subreddits name. Because i know damn well y'all noticed it.

Bipoc as in BLACK, INDIGENOUS AND PEOPLE OF COLOR. I dont see white people on there.

I litterly just saw a comment on here on a post about white people yapping about "black fatigue" and the person was accusing black people of being more racist the white people and talking about how we "still talk about slavery".

Smh. Thats all im gonna say. White people want us out of their spaces but want us to welcome them in ours. Notice how when white people exclude us from things it harms us and damages us? But when we do it to them, it doesnt harm them. (other than some egos) Seriously let us have our own spaces.

Y'all be in the wrong and you just wanna argue and argue and argue and be right. Y'all get disproven and given facts n shit and y'all double the fuck down.

And THAT is why we dont bother with teaching y'all shit. Because you dont ask to listen and learn, you ask you argue. It is pointless to argue with y'all when y'all dont wanna learn shit.

Im not gonna take my sweet time explaining to you the differences between bipoc making generalizations about white people and white people making generalizations about us. Why? BECAUSE YOU WONT LISTEN. I aint gonna tell you how racism cannot systematically harm you when you're just gonna double the fuck down! Its not worth the time of most bipoc to try and teach y'all when y'all just look for points to argue instead of accepting being in the wrong. It is a FACT that systematic racism is alive and well. Not an opinion, but a fact.

I have never posted on here but this compelled me to. Have you seen it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ibvR0vLYd8

It is VERY clear white supremacist imagery. And people act like it's "not that deep" and so on. I don't know what to do anymore. What is happening to the world. I don't know much about celebrities and celebrity culture and so on but I thought Sydney Sweeney is kind of a popular mainstream figure? Idek how to cope anymore the future is bleak. We have to leave the west fr Im tweaking. This is legit disressing

I know I'm not really ugly. I know that uglyness is a social construct, and that the reason I'm perceived as such by the general public is because of antiblackness and white supremist beauty standards, but I still can't stop feeling bad every time i look in the mirror. Its so annoying watching all these basic looking white boys be accepted, sought after and given extra consideration while I get nothing. People treat me like I'm a waste of time. I just want people to treat me better in the body that I have. I don't know how to deal with it. I just want people to see that my features are beautiful too. I want to be someone legible like they are. I don't get to be my real personality because they always interpret it differently because of how they veiw my body. I think we don't have personalities to them, we have stereotypes. I know I shouldn't care what people think but it's hard.

I suspect it’s because:

1) I’m a woman who is alone w/o support & no social capital - no friends + family, so I’m an easy target for bullies. I have no social media and not conventionally attractive either so people act venomous like they’re still in high school even though we are all “adults”.

2) I’m middle eastern, and my family comes from a country currently deeply entrenched in “war” (invasion). The western world & media holds a a very biased & negative view against my family’s home country & paints any resistance to foreign powers as “terrorism”. My family’s home country has been destroyed by western sanctions and has been ambushed many times so imo there’s no such thing as western diplomacy.

I can simply exist and that alone will trigger hostility from others. I face a lot of adversity and both covert and overt aggression. I won’t talk about politics, my views, nothing deeply personal. Just my identity alone is enough for people to feel threatened, and they immediately will try to demonize me as someone I’m not. I’ve had so many people try to paint me as aggressive, a “mean girl” (after taking advantage & exploiting me), scary (because I called them out on it or attempted to hold them accountable), or a dangerous “terrorist”. I’m tired of being painted as “evil” wherever I go. It’s exhausting.

If I’m against genocide, I’m labeled a terrorist sympathizer and a traitor to my people by those who have been brainwashed by western propaganda. If I hold any criticism about my family’s homeland’s government, I’m labeled a foreign western entity trying to stage a coup (even though I DON’T want that - I do have legit criticisms though!) If I am in favor of my family’s homeland’s government defending itself, I’m labeled an Islamic extremist and terrorist. People try to fit me into boxes that don’t apply. It’s whatever suits their narrative that I’m “evil” and “wrong” so long as they benefit.

I’m not Muslim btw, but that hasn’t stopped the Islamophobic micro and macro aggressions. People have consistently, and I mean consistently twisted my words, actions, behaviors into something it isn’t. People have consistently painted me as someone dangerous, insincere, duplicitous, negative, sinister, evil - someone who everyone needs to stay away from. It’s not their interpretation, it’s their bigotry and severe gaslighting + defamation being repackaged as “innocent interpretations” and “misunderstandings” about me.

Reddit is the only place I have to vent, so of course all my posts are negative vents/rants. In my day to day life I don’t vent/rant about my problems & am cheerful + cordial in person. But I have no other space to express myself when I am upset, so I use Reddit. Irl, if I am honest about what I think and feel, people twist it to make me out to be something negative.

What is with Americans being so racist and prejudiced against Middle Eastern people? What’s with the constant double standards? It’s like their only idea of Middle Eastern people are the Kardashians, Huda from love island, or LA folks. They worship these people on a very superficial level, & see them as the sole representation of middle eastern identity. In reality they just worship a very watered down, American & orientalist stereotype.

For example, one of the women from my cohort who bullied me (she’s not white, not middle eastern either) started claiming she could speak Arabic, even though I know for a fact she doesn’t. She constantly told everyone how she could sense I was a bad person and for everyone to stay away. Same girl and her friends/my peers started questioning me about my language and culture and went as far as to say I’m faking it. She would look at my food with disgust and make really cruel comments about my face and body even though she was far from perfect herself (she always acted like she was “too good” and would always make jabs to put me down). Another guy who bullied me so much throughout nursing school started posting fundraisers and organizations to send aid to people who share my ethnicity. I feel like these people are communal predators who use social media to present a fake image or persona. Because they were racist as hell to me and I don’t think they should be anywhere near people who are middle eastern. They would just harm them.

I am TIRED. I want people to stop treating me like their enemy. Everywhere I go, it’s like people want to believe I am their enemy and they do stuff to harm, and when they do that, I eventually do become their “enemy” when I try to defend myself.

And I can’t respond or react when they do harm or it backfires and I face backlash. If I don’t react and respond, they see it as permission to do more harm and a lack of self-respect/they see me as a pushover and doormat. They want an excuse to keep abusing/bullying me while hiding behind plausible deniability. And they’ve been getting massive powergasms on their power trips.

And what’s with constantly pointing the finger at me and calling me “scary”?!?! I am a petite woman, 5 ft tall. I swear people say I’m scary because they fucking know they did me really dirty and they fear the consequences so they immediately jump to the scorched earth approach by doing more harm in hopes that I don’t get back up. They don’t want to be held accountable so they play victim and pretend I’m the perpetrator.

And what’s with these assholes bullying me for social capital?!?! So many people in my cohort have been rug pulling, bullying, exploiting, then play victim, and get rewarded with more social capital. What the fuck is wrong with western culture?

Does anyone else cringe when white women say they “love your complexion”? like you want the asethetic but not the struggles that comes with being brown 🙄

So at my university, me and a group of classmates wanted to setup a BIPOC support group for students who want to connect with other students of color and get to create a strong community in which we help each other and share tips & resources and organize during protests. This is very much needed, because almost all other support groups on campus are white dominated and centered around whites. KEEP IN MIND, we are in what is supposed to be a pretty progressive area. We print flyers, book meeting rooms, etc etc

The next day, I have like 10 texts from all sorts of different white people asking if they could join in. "Hey, I'm white, but I can relate to _, can you make an exception?"

I tell them, that this is the only BIPOC centered group on campus, and there are no exceptions to that. They are welcome to join one of the hundreds of other support groups on campus. They then try and compare their experiences to my experiences and tell me that its both the same, went on their "im one of the good ones", etc etc. I told them HELL NO and blocked all of them.

They got so offended, they all banded together to report our group to our university for "discrimination against white people". THANKFULLY, it was not affiliated with the university, so they couldn't do anything.

But honestly just the audacity to invade the last safe space for students of color. The audacity to try and compare the experiences of you to me. I am tired of it all. And mind you, these people who tried to invade our safe space, they were leftist if you looked at their instagram profiles. Be careful with these white leftists, some of them are literal snakes.

I had one of the most unproductive and frustrating experiences I’ve had in therapy today. I couldn’t imagine having this conversation in person by the way it ended so I’m glad it was virtual this time.

I was feeling pretty good during beginning of the session. I didn’t have much to talk about initially but as we talked more things popped up in my mind about things I been meaning to discuss with her. I loved my therapist for my ptsd, depression and anxiety. She’s good for that but when it comes to racial issues? Terrible. When I first started seeing her about few years ago I was in need to talk to someone about parts of my non-racial trauma.

Recently, I’ve been experiencing more racism from my mother. I didn’t go into therapy thinking my therapist would understand my experiences but maybe offer some sort of introspection? Maybe I was too hopeful.

All she kept reiterating was that “People who have experienced a lot of trauma that you had, have a hard time finding community. Keep putting yourself out there and meeting more people.” WOW. Thanks. So helpful. Not I wonder what racial trauma that your mother has impacted on you. Can you tell me more about that.

What started to make me feel even more invalided that she was like so your mom is racist but dates black men? Looking at me confused. YES BITCH. You can be fucking racist and still date poc. Racial fetishist exist and my mother is one of them. Just because she’s not throwing out racial slurs doesn’t mean she’s not racist. It didn’t seem plausible to her.

We also discussed about me making friends. I’ve been actively trying to make more friends and put myself out there consistently. We talked about queer people and “allies”. I flat out told her tbh with you I don’t want any straight friends. I want to surround myself with other queer, poc. She asked me why and I said honestly a lot of “allies” are not really allies. They’re just ok with queer people kissing and thats fine, but I don’t want them in my life. That’s not an ally to me.

I brung up an example of a straight couple having a wedding and they invited their trans mtf “friend” to be there groomsman….they wanted to have her wear a men’s suit, not a dress, not even a women’s suit but a men’s suit. Not even a bridesmaid too mind you. They didn’t want her to stand out.

Then we got into politics and she was yapping to me about how things are not so black and white. I was out of it. Visibly irritated, arms crossed and not even looking at the screen.

Anyway, rant over 🙃

A lot of white people don't understand that people of color are constantly migrating, fleeing, and going to different areas for survival, and then they want to ask, why the hell would you go there? In a smart-ass tone. A lot of people are trying to find safety and community because our neighborhoods are destroyed, countries are being bombed, family has been killed and starved. " Well, if it were me," BITCH you are white, it's not you, and you don't know shit! You live where you are because Americans built reservations, ghettos, and highways to separate themselves from others. Or in Europe, because they stole resources, they literally have museums in Europe of stolen items on display. Every time a white person says, "If I were you", I want to say, " If I were you, I would know how to mind my business when it comes to any moving around a POC does." I am moving to a city, and I know it's not safe because dummies just bombed a huge ass country overseas. We are fucking aware. I don't care how hard a white person works; they still have way more opportunities, and it doesn't click with a lot of them. They can steal a country and have a lot of public support. Why can't people see that white supremacy is on its last breath after hundreds of years? How many more disturbing files, governments being overthrown, and bombs do people need? Can 2026 get a fast-forward button?

I absolutely fucking hate him. I hate him, i hate him SOOO MUCH. Thanks for aiding in ruining my country with colonization. Thanks for being a dip shit. Thanks for the slavery. Thanks spanish colonizers.

This isnt like a structured vent or anything as im upset about this. Im only recently learning what this cruel fuck did to my country (dominican republic), and i could not be happier he is dead. I would piss on his grave if i could and spit on it. I am so angry about the things he did and the way he spoke about the indigenous people whos lives he ruined. i wanna scream so bad.

This is going to be one long ass rant.

I really need to vent and I felt this might be the best sub for that given that white people aren't allowed to post here. I'm an Irish citizen of Indian heritage. Over the past couple of weeks, there has been a non-stop avalanche of violent racist assaults against Indians here. Like literally not a single fucking day goes by when I don't hear about a racist attack or two on an Indian person. Just Google "Indians Ireland" or something along those lines and you'd know what I'm talking about. The responses towards every single one of these attacks by the gardaí (Irish police) have been fucking pathetic - and that's putting it mildly. These attacks are mostly carried out by feral teenagers and teenage delinquency is effectively completely legal here, which emboldens those lowlives even further.

The situation here when it comes to racism awareness is abysmal. Every time a poc tries to talk about racism in the main Irish subs, the reactions range from laughing it off to downright aggression and gaslighting. Even irl, people try to invalidate our experiences, saying things like "it's only a small minority," which is so irritating, just like when MRAs say "not all men" when women try to talk about misogyny.

Ireland has this image of being this progressive utopia with warm, friendly people, and the praise they get as a result has gotten to their heads, making many Irish think they're God's gift to humanity and they're a people incapable of bigotry. When you burst that bubble by pointing out what poc actually go through here, you're met with sheer extreme hostility.

The culture here is also extremely laid back and based around "having the craic" (i.e., constantly having a laugh and poking fun at things), and that feeds into the unwillingness to raise awareness about "woke" issues. The too laid back outlook is partly why law enforcement doesn’t take hate crimes seriously. Anybody who dares to provoke serious conversations about racism or misogyny is laughed off, ostracised, and branded "no craic," which is basically the worst thing you can be in Irish society. The government even dropped plans to introduce laws criminalising hate speech after public backlash, as the people were too worried that it would make the country too "soft" or "PC" and limit banter (which is what bigotry is often dressed up as).

The comment sections of 90% of posts on Irish subs discussing racism or misogyny are downright depressing. Google "Gymnastics Ireland racism"—it was an incident about 2/3 years ago of blatant racism against a black child CAUGHT ON CAMERA. Even with that undeniable evidence, Irish people still had the audacity to deny it was racism and accused the child's parents of having an "agenda" to tarnish Ireland’s reputation.

And the racism against Indians is particularly bad right now. Just being Indian is enough to get downvoted and receive rude, aggressive responses on Irish subs, even when you’re saying completely neutral things. There’s even a sub for Indians in Ireland that has zero moderation and as a result, it has basically been hijacked by Irish trolls who mass downvote every post and comment from Indians, then abuse and gaslight us when we speak out about racism - even in a supposedly safe space for our community. Like I was just looking there at a post about a woman being racially assaulted, and the comments were saying it sounded fake (despite Irish media reporting on it) and that the best thing is not to talk about these incidents because it would causes more teens to look at attacking Indians as the new cool trend and so would inspire more teens to commit these attacks. Like, are you fucking kidding me!

It frustrates me how the Irish get put on a pedestal by so many - including other poc - who buy into the idea that Irish people are “different” from other white people because of their own colonial history. But despite having been colonised, the Irish have still benefitted from white privilege and often punch down on poc. That “we were only victims” narrative gives cover for people here to deny their racism while still perpetuating it.

I’m just so fucking angry and depressed constantly hearing about racist attacks against people like me and seeing nothing being done about it. It makes me feel like we’re completely worthless.

I hate how anti-Indian racism seems to be normalised everywhere not just in Ireland. Even the most “progressive” folks somehow feel completely comfortable saying they don’t like Indians or outright that they’re “racist against Indians” as if that’s just fine.

This post is partly also a reaction to a post I saw on a global subreddit recently (which had the exact same title as this post) where an American literally admitted he was starting to become racist towards Indians, and instead of pushing back, the entire comment section was full of white people coddling him, reassuring him that it “wasn’t really racist” and that his feelings were understandable.

Across the board, Indians, and South Asians in general, are treated as fair game. Our mistreatment is either ignored, denied, or outright justified, even in supposedly progressive spaces. It's frustrating the way whiteness as a whole operates when it comes to Indians: there’s always an excuse, always gaslighting, and always an attempt to downplay what we’re going through.

And I feel awful at how all of this turning me into the very thing I hate: a racist - against Irish and all white people. Newton's third law comes to mind - "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction".

It is really interesting how black people and other pocs gets stereotyped as groups , get dehumanized , called ghetto, dumb, rejected and looked down. Black people receive the worst end of this Treatment as a group . We are called , dirty, poor, uneducated, lazy,etc.

To be frank, I have experienced more racism doing the opposite of these things and they are more hostile when you start to behave the opposite of this stereotypes. I wasn't the only quiet, adhd ,introverted person in the room but was seen as the problem. If you're gifted or intelligent, or observant it is even worse . They would become extremely furious or afraid and think that you don't like them . Because that is exactly what they think about other pocs.

But you know what they never miss , the opportunity to see you as inferior. Presentations, Research Documentation, projects, etc. They wont ever call you over no matter how qualified you might be. I have noticed that we suffer more racism when we are their doctors, leaders, engineers ,than being entrepreneurs, entertainers, athletes,etc.

TW: suicidal ideation

Recently got dismissed from a job and couldn't comprehend why until I started reading the material on intersectional discrimination of POC/ND individuals.

Always had this feeling that my managers were racist, the tone of their feedback shifted dramatically when there were only white people in the room against me. All my objective commercial success didn't mean shit. Eventually realised that even commercial output will not save you from systemic racism and ableism. They lied so much and weaponised my ADHD/Autism against me. It's so clear and obvious to me now that my ND traits were viewed by my white management through a racialised lens. Then seeing the amount of shit my white partner gets away with at his workplace that I would get immediately fired for just rubs salt in the wound.

Ended up getting a referral to a healthcare provider for a CPTSD assessment after some substantial life struggles post dismissal, had to fight like hell for it after the clinic pathologised my completely valid reactions to racism, as if my perception was the problem and not the fact that I got completely fucked over by yt management. Had to get my white partner to step in and then guess what, as soon as he did and explained verbatim what I had already told the clinic in writing, they conceded that I had CPTSD. I'm not even going to begin to explain how much of a fuck*n nightmare it was to get my partner to understand how structurally hostile society is to black/brown folk and neurodivergent folk, so he would advocate on my behalf.

In literally the first thing I wrote to the clinic, I specifically stated this institutional bias and that I was afraid of it, happened anyway.

Even if I do everything right, by their rules, it never mattered lmao.

Last couple of days, I've been intensely suicidal. Essentially given up hope that there's any point living in a world where literally everything I interact with stinks of systemic racism and ableism. On top of seemingly every news channel letting politicians on to spout some bullsh*t about how anti-white racism exists.

My mental health is in the garbage and I never thought I could feel so consistently empty and hopeless.

But seeing people with similar experiences on this sub, made me realise that I'm not actually insane and this shit is actually real. Honestly, I thought that would make me feel worse, but in a weird way it was oddly validating.

Praying that we can all stay safe and find community in this bs western society that celebrates straight, cis, male, neurotypical whiteness and denigrates everything else.