• schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    Why does everyone in the world think they can’t be racists simply by virtue of not being American?

    I wasn’t calling you racist, but do you find that a lot of people do?

    Anyway, this linguistic tendency goes way beyond race; think of how the BBC accent was posh London for the longest time, or how Quebecois are ashamed of their accents, or how Argentines envy continental castellano… it’s a race thing only in so much as it’s a class thing.