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Originally Posted by activeStick
Should probably feel offended and then punch them in the face! Out of curiosity, what was said? I recall you're Asian, potentially Chinese, like me...
- "Wow, thanks for dinner tonight, it was amazing! I was worried you'd serve us dog!!"
- "Let's have DoubleF do the bill splitting for us, he probably aced math!"
- "Having only spoken to you on the phone before, I had no idea you're Asian, you speak English without any accent at all!!"
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Yep. I'm Chinese an born in Canada. But no, none of that basic stuff in this case.
This was more like (paraphrased):
"You're a good one DoubleF. We like you. Not like those other immigrants who come here, can't speak English and buy up all our houses with illegal funds and leave them empty to screw us over."
Bits and pieces of this was mentioned nearly half a dozen times over several meetings in the last few years. I stopped bothering to mention that the wording was kinda inappropriate by the second or third mention because their retort was basically, "But you can't disprove what I am saying is wrong and I'm not saying you're one of them.".
Somehow, this person really dislikes immigrants and kept on repeating it like people needed to be aware or they'd forget this "injustice" or something. It perhaps bugs me more because this person is well educated and over the years has honestly decent. These racist comments really didn't start popping up until the last few years, but she was always careful to differentiate me and my family from "the other immigrants". Occasionally my colleagues will also be mentioned as "good ones" when she interacts with them.
I grew up around farms and those comments were common, but in a more pre-internet surprise and excitement to see someone that looked different than the Mennonite community type of thing. I honesty brushed off those types of comments growing up if the intent was not supposed to be rude, but this person's comments has started to make me feel really weird lately.