Dear Gormless Wonder,
When I took my newly-arrived Asian classmate to Nocturne tonight on a mini-tour of Halifax, I highly doubt he expected to have some moron make squint-eyes at him, say “Me sillee Chineesee,” and then laugh at his confusion before they slithered away. Thanks for representing your city/country so dazzingly well, asshole.
—Admiring the local color.
This article appears in Oct 15-21, 2009.
They hardly represent Halifax…I’m Chinese and while I’ve been in this city for less than two months, I have yet to experience any overt racism. I hope my experience doesn’t change. Everyone’s been very nice to me so far. Seems like you guys just ran into moron(s) who have been isolated too long and who possess little experience of our world.
Maybe the person was from Sackville or Spryfield.
Classy!
Halifax racism doesn’t always come in overt flavour. It seems to prefer mild or subconscious.
Overt racism usually isn’t done by truly racist people, but by people in fact making fun of overt racism and obvious old-school stereotypes in an ironic way to show how ridiculous it is and how we have moved on from that, so we can therefore now make fun. Shows like South Park, Family Guy, and Little Britain do it all the time (check out the Ting Tong Macadangdang and Mr. Dudley sketches from Little Britain on YouTube, hilarious!). Perhaps that’s what these people were doing.
Hopefully it doesn’t sour your friend’s opinion on people here in Halifax though. If so, tell him that he can make fun of our “big eyes.”
What? Kay hasn’t been on here yet to make a “typical Nova Scotia friendliness” comment?
I’m shocked.
Why bother, Jennie? You all know the truth.
We do know the truth, Kay, which is why it’s so easy to disregard your opinions.
Wow. I know shit like that happens but it’s still really crazy that people will just be racist dickholes in public, for everyone to see.
I’m sorry your friend had such a bad experience OP. Unfortunately, racist fucktards are everywhere and you had the bad fortune to run in to one.
I would also like to offer a heartfelt fuck off to expatriot. Way to perpetuate stupid stereotypes.
I have a feeling expatriot was joking. Then again, past experiences have shown that some people have a very hard time understanding the concept of “joke” (spell it with me now: J O K E) on LTWWB.
I have a feeling s/he meant to be rude and my past experiences have shown me that I have no problem understanding the difference between the concepts “joke” and “rude”.
I was walking with my brother and his boyfriend, and I was shocked when a black man drove by yelling ‘fucking fagots’. (The man was really angry too. I think what happened was he was checking out the boyfriend from behind, who has hair down to his waist, and turning to get a front view, he realized that he was checking out a man.)
Was the dude in the car Kay in drag, HKM?
that’s funny! ha-ha-ha. Somebody give the kitty an award for an awful attempt at “witty”. Who can blame a girl for trying? *gag*