One fine afternoon recently, RantWoman got on a bus. RantWoman wound up sitting across the aisle from two elderly women in one seat speaking what RantWoman is guessing was Chinese and in a seat ahead of them a man with long white hair. RantWoman is guessing based on his speech pattern and a moment below that he is Native. Mr. Native began harassing the women speaking Chinese. He told them to go back where they came from or speak English.
RantWoman in fine privileged white person form, pulled out her talking phone to take a picture. RantWoman has all kinds of problems with glare and framing and focus. RantWoman never did manage to take a picture, but the talking phone distracted Mr. Harasser enough that he started to demand $5 from RantWoman just for taking his picture. Then he wanted more. He did not extract cash but he did stop harassing the Chinese women! Things got a little testy but then calmed down by the time RantWoman needed to get off the bus.
RantWoman's parting comment "Please try not to bother people on the bus!"
RantWoman notes this sequence with humility, ahead of inviting readers to consider ALL the grossness described in this Twitter thread. (RantWoman has not fully tested screen reader accessibility of this method of imbedding twitter threads)
I have an enormous amount of feelings over how non-Natives acted at the Na-Me-Res pow wow today. It was incredibly disheartening and upsetting in so many ways. I don't have the bandwidth to explain it all right now, but I'm going to come back to this. It's not okay at all.
— BeadsAgainstFascism (@beadagainstfash) June 19, 2022
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