• AJMaxwell@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Because they usually talk shit toward people who don’t speak English, so they assume everyone around them speaking a different language is doing the same.

    • notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip
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      2 days ago

      I used to work in a spa, doing nails, and the amount of times I heard white women tell me in ‘hushed’ tones that they liked coming to a place where the workers spoke English because they ‘couldn’t tell if the girls working at those other places were talking about them when they spoke another language’ was disgusting.

      American ‘exceptionalism’ is anything but.

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        3 days ago

        We invented it to cover up our massive inferiority complex, clearly. American exceptionalism is the balls hanging from the hitch of our pickup truck of a country.