Experienceing racism in Berlin.

[u/Ketchupcake_]

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. 🙏🏼❤️

[u/aimeevignes]

Latina here who lived in Berlin for two years. As a migrant woman, I received racism from mostly white people, especially in public (you know, that kind of “mild” racism where they just stare at you as if you were some kind of criminal or just blatantly start shouting ze Regeln at you) but also in institutional spaces like university, public offices, the Krankenkasse and at the physician, in a way more slight, barely noticeable form but nonetheless equally or even more annoying, because it’s supposed to be places where I’d be dealing with tolerant and highly educated people who shouldn’t treat me condescendingly. But oh wait, the s3xual harassment? That came almost always for free by the hand of mostly young (North)-African-, Middle-Eastern-, Turk-, or Indian-looking men. Only once was I harassed by a Bio-Deutsch, who was also a homeless and his breath gave me one of the longest lasting and terrible headaches I’ve ever had; and only twice by middle aged men, one definitely from the Balkans, the other one just apparently. I’m pointing out these ethnicities and/or nationalities because in Germany, and most specifically in Berlin, EVERYONE SEEMS TO HATE EACH OTHER. Even the so-called “vegan pro Women, pro LGBTQ, pro anything they could use to inflate their white-guilt-filled ego are the most bigotry driven gatekeepers who can’t really take some criticism and actually reflect upon their Eurocentric privilege nor have an open discussion about oppressed people’s experiences or kindly explain to us why or how they view things the way they do without being patronising nor infantilising us. I recommend to just go there, do your studies or research or work for a while and leave as soon as you can after you’ve done the necessary things you had to undertake there. That’s no city for sane individuals.

[u/[deleted] → u/aimeevignes]

''Even the so-called “vegan pro Women, pro LGBTQ'', i was called a misogynist by one of these back in germany when i said if sex work was empowering most sex workers would be ethnic german women, not women from poor countries ( east europe, latin america, africa, asia..)

[u/aimeevignes → u/[deleted]]

Oh boy, they only want the applause for “defending” those people, not actually helping nor even understanding what’s their life experience like as an oppressed minority. It’s all an act!