2026-09-21 23:31 UTC
This is my industry and the rampant racism is insane. Anytime there’s an accident or video shared of a trucker being dumb INSTANTLY you’ll see a flood of comments about “towelheads” and such. Or the video itself having Indian music overlaid. When you can’t even see the driver in the video. IRL people say shit like that like it’s nothing. I push back with “what do you mean” kind of questions and they get a bit uncomfortable and say “you know what I mean”
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@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2026-09-22 04:46
Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but trucking in America is a commodity industry where a lot of the competition is just to reduce price. Having more truckers around pushes costs down, so the casual racism is also kind of a wish to reduce the labor pool.