I get it but I don't like the dismissive attitude towards these important topics.
I’m not trying to dismiss importance of talking about this, I have no problem with people talking about the racism somalis have faced, I’m sorry if it came across that way, my issue is with
how much we talk about it, for example in that other thread about the UK lady who had fgm done on her, she mentions fgm all time, she got mocked on twitter for it, is the guy who mocked her being dismissive of the seriousness of fgm? No he’s simply pointing out how tiring it is for her to mention it all the time.
To further substantiate my point, when I first joined Somali spot I would routinely engage in these type of discussions, because again I have no issue with this topic, I stopped doing it now because there’s a thread about this every two days!!!! not to mention some of the users here play so hard into the victim narrative and use it to justify their own racism towards madows, like other users have pointed out, it’s all so exhausting.
Did you experience any of the bullying during this period?
I’m 18 so I was a very young during those days, so I didn’t really experience xenophobia, but with my generation or days in secondary school, i would get somali jokes or stereotypes thrown around, , but it was just jokes and they did that to
eyeryone.