They always assume you're American and then you see their brain short circuiting when they find out you're not. It's as if other countries only exist as this abstract notion and only America is real. They tend to think of us as this monolithic abstraction as everyone in a Muslim country, for example, shares some inherent trait instead of a place with its own contradictions and its own complexities that cannot be reduced to their dumb generalities.
fellow fedi user in the middle east, this is too real 😫
Someone wrote this to me in all seriousness
"Enablers are bad, yes, but invading aggressors are worse., Your comment reads like “both sides” Russian propaganda."
My family are Persian rug dealers that lived in Iraq.
خخخخخخخخخخخ Tell them about libya, installation of the shah or most middle east interventions. You can tell where they live immediately after they say BS like this lmao
For a while there were quite an active number of Arabic speakers on Mastodon though most have moved on BlueSky or defederated.
I used to get that a lot on Mastodon.
Accurate
I get called either Russian or Chinese propaganda bot sometimes (because there are that many MONOTHEISTS in any of these countries...) and I'm pretty far ethnically from both, lol.
Well, Russia is 75-80% monotheist by these numbers, and no one knows what your ethnicity is here until you tell them. Also, people of different ethnicities can live in and/or work for those countries.
Maybe I haven’t run into it too often or I’ve been ignornant of it, but what are some of those opinions that you’re referring to?
To see a video of this terrible lady (one of the very first Karens on the internet), search "barbecuing while Black."
