I’ve had it with your underlying racism

I’m fucking tired of your “We’re not racist, but…”/”No offence, but” Facebook groups some of you join. Particularly the ones that start with those phrases and, “Love it, or LEAVE IT” or the most racist, “YOUR IN AUSTRALIA SPEAK ENGLISH” – Yeah – Tell that to an immigrant who had to flee their homeland because their and their family’s life was in danger, and let’s face it - the ones who have English as a first language are no higher on the social ladder than someone who came from another country and attempted to learn your actual language so they can communicate with you, you ignorant bastards.

Okay, I slipped. I had to rejoin Facebook in an attempt to actually contact people who for some reason or another find it hard to pick up their phone in times when I really need to give them important information or answer emails, and you know what I’ve discovered – A lot of my friends (or “friends”, however you choose to view your Facebook friends “circle”) are quite underlyingly racist. Facebook groups you wouldn’t say you joined out loud but it’s hidden amongst the hilllaaarrrrious Facebook groups about getting drunk and passing out. And you know what? I’m actually fucking offended. As pretty much the last person who would get offended it really got my goat the way “SPEAK ENGLISH” kept cropping up as quite a popular Facebook group to join amongst my whiter friends. Because obviously the one language you do speak which happens to also be the faux-universal language that communicates between nations on a tourism traveller blender makes you waaaayyy up here *points high* and other people who may not come from a cultural background that has English as a first language, nor were taught in case of the day they needed to move overseas and yet try really hard to learn it for you, and sometimes don’t do so well (and who can blame them) are waaaaay down low. Right?

Do you feel the need to laugh at the fact that they may have accidentally put the wrong empahasis or inflection on a word? God damn you. YOU’RE NOT THE SUPERIOR ONE. Clearly.

I was watching Insight on SBS an afternoon ago and they were discussing the issue of border security and what constitutes as a fair way of dealing with ‘illegal aliens’. I felt particularly sorry for the middle-eastern civilians who fled their country to seek a place, any place, where they’d be safe and it just so happened that Australia is that place.
The majority, if not all the immigrants involved in the discussion talked about how they weren’t told where they were going but hoped it was a place safe for  them to live, and at one point a woman said that she “feels sorry” for their situation but doesn’t want them here and they should be properly sorted “…and since it shouldn’t matter to them where they go we should put them in other countries” (or something along those lines)
I’m sorry, we have perfectly good space available, and she speaks like their animals…
Wow.
Wow…

Why can’t we just judge people based on how well they can spell due to their education in a public or privately owned school in a western country? See which ones were paying attention in class and which ones stick their nose in the air and brag about how a 4% on a test is somehow a valid mark. Yeeeeah. Is that why you don’t know what else to do apart from getting pregnant to a million fathers? Couldn’t you read the condom wrapper?

I went there.