Actually Guest 7:51, I don't think Azizi posts that way. I haven't noticed that she mentions her race or culture any more often than other posters offering context do.

And I definitely get what she is saying about not wanting to be unique because of her race. That just sucks, because it brings out tokenism, passive aggressive nasty shit directed towards her solely on the basis of her race, that sort of thing.

Long before Azizi ever arrived here, it was pretty easy for me to discern most people here don't know--especially not intimately--many people of color.

Which is why I said what I said further up: most (not all) people here are socially conservative and xenophobic. A lot of the xenophobia we see here is rooted not just in fear of one new individual, but in not knowing what race and culture the newcomer is, hence fear they might not be "one of us".

The subsequent posts that said things like "it's like going down to the pub" or "there is nothing wrong with wanting to be around people you know/like..." (or however those posts were worded) is the sort of statements you see socially conservative people make.