How did you react/respond?
Alternatively (if you never have or if it doesn’t apply to you), what is the worst thing you’ve ever been called by someone, in real life, who wasn’t joking?
Yes, and I was mildly scared, even though it was a crowded public bus in broad daylight, because the (African-American) woman who said it was obviously not quite right in the head.
Ethnic slur? Never. Racial slur? I’ve been called a “white motherfucker” a few times that I recall. Otherwise? I was a fat kid with glasses who grew up to be a fat guy with glasses who worked as a bar bouncer/doorman for 15 years. I can’t honestly remember all the vile names I’ve been called. I learned to ignore it as the barking of small dogs.
Yes.
Yeah, I was called a “wog” forty years ago by a couple of snotty-nosed kids.
The odd thing is that I have (had, anyway) four White English grandparents - though my face does tan a bit, and it was a sunny summer that year.
Not ethnic or racial, as I’m white.
I am Pansexual, and Pagan, and I am a very tall(6’) and strong-looking woman. I’ve been called a lot of things. None of them really bother me anymore. Wolves don’t lose sleep over the opinions of sheep.
Many times as a youth
Does XBox Live count as real life?
Back in my twenties I had a black friend that used to refer to me as his nigga (“my nigga!”). A wee bit strange since I’m white.
Pretty sure he meant it as a term of endearment. At least I hope so.
Yeah. In the Army, while working in residential treatment, while working in LE, and as a teacher. Where are you going with this?
I’ve been called honky, cracker, white boy, white (any number of profane nouns). There were some situations where this felt threatening, but mostly it just seemed like verbal harassment that wasn’t going any farther. It was usually a consequence of being “out of place” in a racially segregated city.
I used to have a few friends of Indian and Sri Lankan background. If we all went out together they would call me their “token honky”.
I think I’ve been called ethnic slurs in Hong Kong but since I don’t know what they mean they haven’t bothered me.
Yes. I was a kid and it was upsetting.
Going on: if it does, I think I’ve been called every one in the book.
In real real life, I’ve been called chink and gook (usually elementary and junior high school) and gringo (constantly when in South America). Other than that, fag is probably the worst thing I’ve been called repeatedly, again mostly before high school.
Twice in my adult life. I didn’t outwardly react on either occasion. The last one was by someone who was clearly mentally ill, but it still managed to be upsetting.
I’ve been called a chink and a slant-eye before. The funny thing is that I have absolutely no Asian blood in me at all. No Chinese, no Japanese, no nothing. I just happen to have slightly narrow eyes.
I don’t think I have. I had a black second-grader once tell me the joke about an airplane going down, where the punchline is that the first two guys jump out for the glory of their country and the third guy throws the fourth guy out for the same reason, and in this kid’s version of the joke, the black guy threw the white guy out of the plane. That’s as close as I’ve come, I think.
I’ve had white people use racist epithets for other people in conversation with me, expecting me to sympathize. That’s a lot crappier.
Sure. It sucked.
I might have been called a spic or a wop. I can’t actually remember if I was called either of those, or if it’s just that I was told that the reason my father wouldn’t let my mom teach us Spanish was because he feared we’d be referred to with those words.
I do remember growing up in Florida and being a little bit ashamed of the small part of me that is Cuban. I grew out of that.
Yes, many times growing up. It resulted in a few fights but nothing of great consequence.