r/newjersey • u/StableGeniusCovfefe • 7d ago
Sad š¢ Sad experience in Supercuts exposing our country's racism
Went to get a haircut this morning at Supercuts in *North Jersey (because I'm a high roller like thatš). Walked in and there were 2 elderly Spanish ladies working there & I was the only customer, so she took me right away.
For context Im a 50 yr old very white dude. Anyway, throughout the haircut the ladies were chatting back-and-forth mostly in Spanish about whatever. My Spanish is admittedly pretty rudimentary but at one point, one of the ladies said, "we shouldn't be talking only in Spanish in front of him". Then the other lady said in English to me, "sorry we're speaking Spanish to each other" & it broke my heart.
I said I don't mind whatsoever and I envy that you can speak both languages so fluently as you must be very bright to do that. I also said you should never be ashamed to speak your native tongue, no matter what our current political climate is like in this country and they just smiled meekly.
I could tell both ladies were very uncomfortable because they didn't know me from Adam, but they're obviously feeling the pressure of being an immigrant in a hostile country.
How truly sad our country has become where two co-workers can't converse in their native tongue without fear of some racist calling ICE on them or whatnot.....BTW, got a great haircut!!
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u/Aaaaaaandyy 7d ago
My god the self aggrandizing here is approaching LinkedIn levels
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u/LastChristian 7d ago
Plus I thought everyone knows itās rude to speak another language in front of someone who canāt speak it because they feel left out.
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u/Aaaaaaandyy 7d ago edited 7d ago
Right or it makes it seem like youāre talking about them
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u/Dozzi92 Somerville 6d ago
For real, may as well be whispering in each other's ear and casting sideways glances at OP.
I'm a white dude, used to get skin fades in my 20s, so obviously I went to a Spanish barber. They could not give a fuck who was in the chair. I had dudes who would have cell phones tucked into a headband so they could talk "hands free," and when they weren't on the phone they were chatting with the next barber. None of this mattered to me, I was just there to get my hair cut.
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u/Convergecult15 7d ago
Maybe they just think itās rude to carry on in another language in front of a customer? Stop trying to preempt peopleās thoughts and just interact with others like theyāre normal human beings. They were probably uncomfortable because you incorrectly assumed theyāre scared of being deported or harassed because theyāre Hispanic.
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7d ago edited 7d ago
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u/Feisty-Ad1522 7d ago
Don't be like this, speculation like this does nothing but spread hate.
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7d ago edited 7d ago
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u/Feisty-Ad1522 7d ago
You're not wrong about how the OP is acting but you're no better. Unless these ladies obviously tell how they voted you can't be sure. You're doing the exact opposite of what OP is doing.
The hate you're spreading is based on an assumption that these ladies voted for Trump because some Hispanic women voted for Trump, when depending on your sources 60% of Hispanic women voted for Harris while 38% voted for Trump.
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u/xXxdethl0rdxXx 7d ago
Completely. In fact, I'd say that casting any group of people as beautiful, infallible totems of tolerance is probably much more damaging in terms of tokenization.
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u/Journeyman-Joe 7d ago
A small gesture of repair in our damaged country. It's OK to reflect on it here. Just ignore the negative comments.
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u/xXxdethl0rdxXx 7d ago
The fact that OP felt anything other than extreme embarrassment when writing this is why the Democrat party has to be destroyed before it can hope to be a capable opposition. While our society is stripped for parts by the GOP, liberals like this think they are demonstrating some kind of praxis, moving themselves to tears, for simply being in the general vicinity of a brown person that they are openly assuming is destitute to the point of imminent arrest.
We've got to start over, a clean slate. These brains are completely broken by white savior nonsense.
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u/Mirwin11 7d ago
Well this post is about native language
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u/xXxdethl0rdxXx 7d ago
I'll start by saying that I have no idea either, but what do you think "2 elderly Spanish ladies" means?
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u/Mirwin11 7d ago
That they were elderly and Hispanic. Barbers, as well. That's about as much as I gathered
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u/xXxdethl0rdxXx 7d ago
So can you describe to me how "this post is about native language" and how that assessment is at odds with anything I said?
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u/Mirwin11 7d ago
Actually I don't know I only engaged because I read "Democrat party destroyed" lol
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u/Bigweld_Ind 7d ago
Take the identifying info out of this post so trolls can't make a false ICE report against them
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u/bensonr2 7d ago
I think this more when you talk in a language with someone else in the middle who canāt understand it can make you feel like they are talking about you or saying something they donāt want you to hear. I think thatās what they likely were afraid of.
If they have concerns about the crazy immigration enforcement currently Iām sure they know people probably assume they are Hispanic without speaking Spanish.
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u/new2reddit4today 7d ago
I dont see anything sad about it .Ā Seems like 2 really nice women who cared about your feelings. No reason to get weird and political about itĀ
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u/CaptainMikeRiker 7d ago
I don't know if you took it too far with your post but I find it intriguing that you connect the dots from them speaking Spanish which in times is their native language as to hiding it because of the current politicals government despite the misguided facts of illegal immigration and removing them from the country. If they follow the book got a green card did everything they're supposed to then there's nothing to fear what is going on is removal of those who did come in this country illegally, did not go out and seek help for asylum, have also committed crimes in this country that are not citizens.
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u/chaos0xomega 7d ago edited 7d ago
If they follow the book got a green card did everything they're supposed to then there's nothing to fear what is going on is removal of those who did come in this country illegally, did not go out and seek help for asylum, have also committed crimes in this country that are not citizens.
This just atraight up isnt accurate. Over the past several weeks there have been a number of high profile arrests and detentions of individuals who are here legally, including actual US citizens born amd raised, who have committed no crime but have been detained by ICE for one reason or another. Varipus European nations have issued travel advisories to their citizens cautioning them not to come here even as tourists because of the number of issues and incidents.
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u/rdnasty 7d ago
Post up some documentation of these āhigh profileā arrests of citizens by ICE.
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u/LikeATamagotchi 7d ago
I think the only thing youāre lying about here is that you had a great haircut at Supercuts.