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[–] ajmaxwell@lemmy.world 57 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

For the country that invented the "american exceptionalism" that's some big insecurity issue right there, huh?

[–] proudblond@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

That and excusing genocide

[–] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 weeks ago

Loudly talk about them in English then.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Aka projection.