I ll start : I have been following a pretty known tech/Linux journalist, and always found he is a fun dude to listen to, with interesting tech takes

The fact that he is also very openly “american conservative” (aka, religious & weapon nut, anti abortion, etc) annoys me, but i keep those things separate. And he does keep it separate too (politics channel vs tech channel), which is a great decision.

  • Bizarroland@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    I’m frequently accused of being a white person by people who are looking directly at me and seeing my tan skin and my shoulder blade length dark brown hair.

    And I don’t really know what to say. Like, thank you for letting me enjoy the white privilege card, but it doesn’t really do me any favors because in most areas the native American privilege card outweighs the white privilege card.

    On the other hand, I am occasionally accused of being a Mexican even though I’m 6 ft 1 and speak very fluent English without a identifiable accent.

    And old people have handed me things written in Spanish and asked me to translate it for them because it’s my native language and it’s fucking not, but then, since I can usually figure out what written Spanish means I still tell them the answer but I feel weird about it and I don’t want to be made to feel that way.