• axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Once I goty yugioh cards confiscated and accused of witchcraft. This was the school admin too. My cousins were banned from playing Pokemon, but that was because the word “evolve” is used a lot.

    What hit me the most was how the nice Syrian family had to move away after 2001. No one used to care, then suddenly everyone hated Muslims. I once had a school cop tell me to be on the lookout for anyone wearing a turban, ane I don’t think he was joking.

    Thankfully my parents weren’t really religious. They were still very racist though. Like they didn’t like when I listened to hip-hop or foreign music, not because of devil worship or anything, but they didn’t want me becoming black somehow.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      My cousins were banned from playing Pokemon, but that was because the word “evolve” is used a lot.

      Oh man, I remember that 90s-era shit. Any time people complain about how modern day conservatives are wacko, I can’t help but have a throw-back to the local pastor who had permission to stand on the UT Quad and spend hours a week arguing that the entire biology department was made up nonsense.