Stone Mason, Canadian ExPat living in the UK, Hobbyist musician.

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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • This topic is pretty touchy for a whole lot of people. And one of the first things to go when shit gets…heated… reading and listening comprehension and uptake.

    That said? Even though they assumed you were saying something you weren’t, they have a valid point that needs repeating because for some reason people look at what DGE(fuck the O that’s not how those work) is doing, and how fucked everything is getting down south, and go:
    It’s not the idea, it’s the implementation that’s flawed, we can do it properly!
    Or they are happy to see our democracy burn for the sake of the Christofascist ethnostate they dream about, knowing that when everyone else is gassed they’ll still be fine because they’re the “right type of person!”




  • I’m Métis, on the darker side, but mostly pass as white-enough. My mum and step-dad took us to meet his family in Indiana summer of 2002. We got picked for “random security checks” every leg of the journey, we were quite poor…so we had to make 4 transfers in the US. I’ve been back to the US a lot since then, I have family and friends down the way. Every time I went I get extra attention from TSA or border authority.
    Just to put this into context, I now live in Scotland, you know…where they make white people. And not one single person I’ve interacted with thinks I’m not white. I was in London during the lockdowns, and had a shocking moment of realisation when an afro-brit aunty who was drunk and getting right close in line got a bit aggressive when I asked her politely to give me a bit of space.
    She said to me:

    You fucking white people!

    And I was like…holy shit…of course the context from home isn’t the context here…I’m not seen as anything but another white guy. It legitimately fucked my head for a week…