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The White Man Set This Idea That They Were At A Moral High Ground And Now They Can't Live Up to It
There was a guy at a Mcdonald's where I work. He was pretty crazy, soon enough he started jumping on the tables and calling the white lady who was serving him racist. Saying look at my black colour she is doing this cause she is racist.
From what I know he got food served a bit late because of what he choose and the time it took to make it. And the guy got offended, he was yelling, throwing stuff until the police showed up. And even after the police dragged him out he came back for more. Before the police showed up again.
The white woman who served the guy was married to a Bangladeshi guy who was not white, they have very cute kids the French-Bangladeshi couple and yet was called a racist.
Why because when white people talked they expected you to listen, cause they were saying something more important than brown or black people could say. And that is the moral high ground that is created. They are expected to live by it and anything that seems out of place can be called out. Because they are not faulty and what they do must have a meaning.
This is the trap the white people have set themselves up in. It's funny really.
In our intercultural class there is something called assuming superiority, that we have superior culture, or superior way of living, superior morality, this is written from the perspective of the white man. Because we feel moral, culturally inferior all the time and that is the legacy of our third world.
So how do we mitigate that?
We don't, sometimes we get angry and jump on tables and call everyone racist. That's the only consequence.
PS: I actually suffered a lot of racism from the white people here which is well, expected, I don't know if calling the police would have helped. LOL