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Just because the most dangerous people here (EU) are drug addicts/alcoholics but won't really attack anyone unless we get in their way, doesn't mean the racism isn't here. It's just so normalized most people don't even see it, plus not many poc live in smaller eu countries...
Europe seems to be really chill and all, but honestly? Every damn country is ignorant and racist in one way or another. We don't even accept people from other countries! For example Poles say gypsies, russians and germans or any neighbor honestly is "dirty". Let alone poc...
Even tourists aren't really safe here, a lot of nationalists calling themselves patriots organize raids, cyberbully, abuse, make poc living here be really afraid to even get out of their homes. Of course it's happening without medias showing it.
Fuck! It's even hard here to look different! You can only have a few styles if you want to have a peaceful life. Here people who have more than 2 basic earrings are looked down on (mainly in the eastern eu) it can affect your whole life. People are super SUPER ignorant.
Yes, our streets are more peaceful, we have gun control, but that doesn't mean racism here just vanished. It's always here, just hidden. Hidden really well. Even people who call themselves non-racists have a weird way of thinking.
They say shit, assume that EVERY poc living freely in another country is on social rent, are lazy because apparently they never work, are dirty and break the law, start fights etc. Obviously it's a lie, but ask anyone in your family and they will say it's been like that for years
Just today I heard a lot of stupid assumptions, that poc start fights just because you're white. I quote "go to USA and see, how racist THEY are, walk into a black territority and you will be attacked". I explained what racism is and all that but the person just walked out.
Europeans don't WANT to learn how to be different, how to think. There's racism on every damn step, just not as extreme and in a smaller scale. Fuck, we are so ignorant. Even if you get in a relationship with a person from other country (both of you r white) you will be hated.
In conclusion: Europe is just as fucked, there is no safe place and it's fucking horrible. If you think your country is better than america, you should stop watching tv and do actual research. We can do ANYTHING if we just LEARN and GET TOGETHER. We have to protect those in need.
Please. We can't lose more people to racism. Wake up. We can't know what exactly poc go through since most of us are white, but we have more power to protect them. Hear them out, we can be their shields. We are all fucking human. Don't be "neutral" to this. If you are, u r racist
I hope you will open your eyes. Feel free to add more into this thread. Please educate yourselves. We all need to learn, even if we think we already know lots, we really don't. Reflect on our actions and try to act better, call others out, even our own families.
