Today, a girl called me a racist, stereotyping asshole. All I did was ask a kid who happens to be Asian to tutor me in math. Which I didn't do just because he's Asian, but rather because he's in college and is actually a brilliant mathematician. FML
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Today, a professor approached me in the hall to ask if, since I'm a math major, I could tutor one of her communications majors in a required Calculus course. Apparently the volunteer tutor the school provides "is a complete dumbass." I'm the school's volunteer tutor. FML
Today, I was accused of being a "racist whore" at work. I'd only asked a man if he needed help finding anything, as that is part of my job. FML
Today, at a tutoring center, one of the tutors looked at my worksheet and laughed. She then showed all the other tutors my mistakes and they laughed along with her. The best part? They all speak Chinese and they think I can't understand them. I'm Chinese. FML
Today, my teacher called me "stupid and ignorant" for referring to myself as Asian. I'm from Pakistan. Pakistan is in Asia. FML
Today, I called the Vietnamese teacher at my son's kindergarten by my Chinese colleague's name. Luckily, she didn't catch it. I'm not a racist, I was just tired after a long day. FML
Today, in calculus, our substitute teacher told me I was smart. Everybody in the class, including my friends, burst out laughing. FML
Today, as I went into my calculus class, the teacher announced that someone had received a negative grade on the test we were getting back. I laughed and said, "Which f*cker managed to get a negative?" Turns out I'm the dumbass. FML
Today, I was playing a math game with a 4th grade boy (I'm a college graduate). I cheated during the entire game, and still lost 7 of the 9 rounds we played. FML
Today, I asked my teacher if he could tutor me for my upcoming exam. He said he'd look into it and let me know later. I later got called to the principal's office because my teacher claimed I'd propositioned him for sex. FML
Today, the parent of a student called to ask me about a homework assignment. At the end of the call, she told me that I seem to be losing my "Asian accent" from when she first talked to me in the summer. I was born in the US, grew up in NJ and speak perfect English. FML
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AdamPractical 18
Sounds like she is actually the racist one! Sorry OP.
cutycat136 28
Just walk away, not worth the argument or explanation. Let her think whatever she wants. You know the truth.
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Comments (86)
SauceySarah 30
OP, your name is hilarious.
Binglebeee 16
Technically she's the racist for making assumptions about someone she doesn't know
IDerive 12
Even if he wasn't a super smart mathematician, insinuating that a certain race or group of people is actually good at something should be a good thing... Usually the ones who cry over this stuff, will not walk down a dark alley full of questionable looking men at night. Why not? They stereotype that a bunch of men in a dark alley is a bad thing...this ability to stereotype has probably saved several lives...stereotyping is an essential tool everybody uses to understand people better, it's called pattern recognition... What happened in this case, she accused op of stereotyping and then stereotyped Op for being an a hole. Hypocrisy at its finest.
Uuhohspagettios 6
Some people just feel like they need to fight over stupid things to feel good about themselves. In this day and age everyone's fighting about something. You didn't do anything wrong OP.
hahanope 11
Dang, well you sure showed her
kiakia0131 23
Not everyone on Tumblr is that stupid, I promise. I have been on Tumblr for years and have managed to not think every little thing has to do with race.
Jerakl 21
Racism is the discrimination because of skin color/race. So it wasn't really racism in the first place. Asians being good as math/sciences is just a stereotype. No one here is technically racist, but the girl that called OP racist is definitely rather assuming.
NicoleStephens 4
The only peole, in my honest opinion, who need defending are kids, the mentally incapacitated, and animals. Everyone else can defend themselves.
S1N9UL4R17Y 8
hey, there is a reason stereotypes exist.
datkenna 20
Well we are good at math