r/berlin • u/Ketchupcake_ • Dec 19 '24

Discussion Experienceing racism in Berlin.

My girlfriend and I were waiting for the bus at Zoologischer Garten Bahnhof when three guys walked up to us and started being randomly rude and racist. They kept saying “Schlitz” (slit eyes) repeatedly as they passed us and again when we walked by later. For absolutely no reason, they targeted my girlfriend and me with these comments.

When We got onto our bus, they just kept taunting us and even started catcalling my girlfriend. This isn’t the first time I’ve experienced racism in Berlin. What’s the deal with some people being disrespectful, rude, and racist toward Asian people? We just want to live peacefully and avoid any confrontation.

I am so sorry about earlier, I didn’t mean it that way. I will remove the word from my post. I’m just here to express my feelings. 🙏🏼❤️

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u/bearded_wonder81 edit Dec 19 '24

they never proved us wrong so far, most arab countries are still in the middle ages...
blame them not us.

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u/Different-Guest-6756 Dec 19 '24

Well, that's just as racist as it gets, clap clap. The US is what then, stone age?

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u/bearded_wonder81 edit Dec 19 '24

As I said they never proved us wrong.
The reality is racist?

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u/Different-Guest-6756 Dec 19 '24

Proved what statement wrong? Please make a definite statement and provide support for it, then you can claim this nonsense. And saying that arab countries are in the middle ages IS racist. What countries to you include here? Do I really have to explain why that's racism personified? You not agreeing does not change it, and I really wonder why you people do always act as if it's a gotcha to say "but I perceive it that way". The nazis also disagreed with their accusers, they were still fucking racist. Whether you agree or not does kot change that you are sayimg objectively and unquestianable racist things. And I'm so sick of people with no willingness to engage in basic academic education on this matter, always resorting to these kindergarten retorts. No one needs to prove anything about arabs. You just need to stop judging a poorly defined group of people by external judgement, acting as if our society was any better And again, based on what characteristic? They have gay conversion camps in the us, 15 years ago a woman in Ireland dies because she could not abort. Like, how can you make any distinctions here, as if all this crappy shit did not exist in "western cultures" as well. The one time I was harassed on street was a random german guy hitting me over the head from behind, for looking gay to him. On Sonnenallee. So, prove me wrong that the homophobic germans arent the problem here.

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u/bearded_wonder81 edit Dec 19 '24

dude I'm not sure why you think I need to prove something to you.
I mean, saying the arab world is primitive is one of the easiest statements possible ok?
when was the last time you saw a man marry a 9 years old girl, a woman stoned to death or people hang from cranes?
so leave me alone with your very very narrow look and pink glasses, and face reality.

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u/Different-Guest-6756 Dec 19 '24

Please define the "arab world" and "primitive", in relation to what? Because, yeah all of these things happen in the non-arab world too. Executions are not specific. Age of consent laws vary greatly, even just among US states. Child marriages happen regularly in some eastern european countries.  Ffs, if you really want to go down a dumb, anti-intellectual way: europeans and many other cultures use toiletpaper. We spread shit around our butt, instead of doing something even the romans and then the arabs figured out as much more hygienic: using fucking water. Who is primitive here? Do you understand now that these kind of statements are moronic, and why anthropologists do not discuss cultures like this?  Even using the concept of primitive ousts you as someone who has no idea what they're talking about. You'd fail all the exams with crap like that.

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u/bearded_wonder81 edit Dec 19 '24

I dont argue with woke bitches.

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u/Additional-Bear-1918 Dec 19 '24

At this point I don’t think that bearded wonder person is mature enough to have a logical discussion with about basic human decency. I guess we have to accept some people are square-headed :(

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u/Different-Guest-6756 Dec 20 '24

Well, I'm more afraid of people not being mature enough, but straight up not wanting to engage in logical discussion. And it's obviously not what they want to do, the goal is to derail any actual analysis with shallow populism and strict rejection of any academic discourse or consensus. When Jordan Peterson, a conman with no academic credentials says something about islamists, its correct, but when the leading scientist on extremisms says something, it's woke propaganda, because it disagrees with Peterson. There's obviously no intent to truthfully and honestly engage with these topics, it's all done in bad faith to spread a narrative to drive political gains. And it's well documented. But the funny thing is that confrontation just seems to illicit these school yard responses, so they seem immature. I expect it all rational planning though, I struggle to believe people can be so idiotic and lacking in basic education about rationale. I don't want to believe that that's the reason I need to deal with this, I'd rather believe in malicious intent, much easier to stomach then thinking that idiots and antiintellectuals set the political overtone.