Words Vs Actions
May. 5th, 2020 05:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanAs I've hinted at in a previous post & in some comments to others' Journals, this pandemic is exposing some of the less-desirable aspects of the modern human...
We're All Some Of Us Are In This Together... as long as you're white & from a 1st world country...
L-SP is of Asian descent & has been subjected to some long, hard, unfriendly looks in public, especially in supermarkets - even though she wasn't buying toilet paper, sanitiser, or even baby formula. Her advantage, at least, is an Australian accent that's broader than my own, so anyone who stares the wrong way gets told off, in words they can definitely understand...
But she shouldn't have to & it pains me that, yet again, I have to apologise on behalf of my tribe - the Caucasian middle class... & the upper & lower ones for that matter, even though we're supposed to be a classless society down here. In some ways, we certainly are
L-SP is of Asian descent & has been subjected to some long, hard, unfriendly looks in public, especially in supermarkets - even though she wasn't buying toilet paper, sanitiser, or even baby formula. Her advantage, at least, is an Australian accent that's broader than my own, so anyone who stares the wrong way gets told off, in words they can definitely understand...
But she shouldn't have to & it pains me that, yet again, I have to apologise on behalf of my tribe - the Caucasian middle class... & the upper & lower ones for that matter, even though we're supposed to be a classless society down here. In some ways, we certainly are
