I worry we’ve crossed a line that cannot be uncrossed. If Russians weren’t indistinguishable from Anglos I would fully expect that we’d be hearing more stories about violence against you guys.
No violence on my end - thank goodness. But there have been a few occasions recently where I’ve been made to feel uncomfortable just because of my NAME. I’ll tell you about the worst occurence of this so far - Okay, so I go to this electronics shop to return something and purchase another thing. The manager rings me up, and he sees my name when he scans the rewards card. Out of nowhere, he just says “Oh, that’s a RUSSIAN last name(Which it isn’t even btw, I’m from the Balkans - not Russian. But he doesn’t know this.) What do YOU think about what’s going on in Ukraine?” In a really accusatory tone. I was so caught off guard by this, just totally put on the spot, and around a bunch of other shoppers too - I didn’t want to cause outrage, and so stammered a bit and just said some nice sounding vague BS about how I don’t support the war, don’t support either government because they’re both corrupt, and do support the people of Ukraine. Basically just got out of that without having to explicitly pledge support for the Ukro-fasc. But this is ridiculous - why the fuck am I being interrogated about my political opinions when I’m just buying something at a store ffs - how incredibly rude and unprofessional >:(
Absolute 100%. Look how they treated the Chinese when half the leaders were specifically telling them to not do that. If all of media told them Russians were evil and they were distinguishable from whites based on physical features, there would be insane amounts of hate crimes. Never forget after 9/11 a bunch of muricans murdered a whole bunch of Sikh people and Indians because they “looked Muslim”.
I worry we’ve crossed a line that cannot be uncrossed. If Russians weren’t indistinguishable from Anglos I would fully expect that we’d be hearing more stories about violence against you guys.
No violence on my end - thank goodness. But there have been a few occasions recently where I’ve been made to feel uncomfortable just because of my NAME. I’ll tell you about the worst occurence of this so far - Okay, so I go to this electronics shop to return something and purchase another thing. The manager rings me up, and he sees my name when he scans the rewards card. Out of nowhere, he just says “Oh, that’s a RUSSIAN last name(Which it isn’t even btw, I’m from the Balkans - not Russian. But he doesn’t know this.) What do YOU think about what’s going on in Ukraine?” In a really accusatory tone. I was so caught off guard by this, just totally put on the spot, and around a bunch of other shoppers too - I didn’t want to cause outrage, and so stammered a bit and just said some nice sounding vague BS about how I don’t support the war, don’t support either government because they’re both corrupt, and do support the people of Ukraine. Basically just got out of that without having to explicitly pledge support for the Ukro-fasc. But this is ridiculous - why the fuck am I being interrogated about my political opinions when I’m just buying something at a store ffs - how incredibly rude and unprofessional >:(
Now imagine what it be like if they could tell you’re Russian just by looking at your face.
Absolute 100%. Look how they treated the Chinese when half the leaders were specifically telling them to not do that. If all of media told them Russians were evil and they were distinguishable from whites based on physical features, there would be insane amounts of hate crimes. Never forget after 9/11 a bunch of muricans murdered a whole bunch of Sikh people and Indians because they “looked Muslim”.