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It was probably safe.
The bar was...unusually reticent, in the lower layers of her mind (and she hadn't pried further; she wasn't sure if she'd be noticed; she wasn't sure if offending would get her kicked out, and regardless of whether it was actually safe it was safer than anywhere else she'd been for the past...three years?) so she couldn't be sure this place wasn't really a trap of some kind, but the higher layers gave a plausible explanation that didn't involve being a trap, and whatever else it was warm and dry and had food. Her guard was probably a full 25% down. Positively trusting, these days.
whatamithinking
whatamithinking
"It was follow-up to some racist remarks, and I think he was expecting me to just answer 'white' in a way that would have supported his point, if he had a meaningful point to make."
whatamithinking
"Probably because you're generically white and don't make a point of doing relevant forms of social justice work?"
onceandforall
"My mom has social justicey inclinations, but not in a particularly activist way, so I guess that might not do it."
whatamithinking
"Because I'm loitering nearby getting ready in a way that doesn't make it visually obvious which side I'm on and they address me first."
whatamithinking
"Since then I have taken to wearing t-shirts printed with relevant slogans to that kind of event."
whatamithinking
"Well, I haven't had a repeat of that particular incident, but it was a bit of a one-off even beforehand, so who knows."
whatamithinking
"...I can get some of them in Hebrew," she reports. "Not any of the ones that contain large quantities of non-scriptural words."
whatamithinking
"The ones I can perceive are all ones I can read pretty well anyways, so there's that. If there's much of anything in a text I'd find really tricky the whole thing get's translated, is what it looks like to me."
onceandforall
"What counts as a single text, I wonder, if you got a book of poems and some were ones you knew...?"
whatamithinking
"I don't so much know discrete poems. I know chunks from Proverbs and the Song of Songs and stuff like that."
whatamithinking
"Alas. On the other hand, I don't exactly take French class seriously but I do care about my grades enough to pretty much learn the material, and there's been some songs on the curriculum. Caaan I see a, um, songbook that has Lark, At the Point of Avignon, and, um, the one that goes At the clear spring, as I strolled by, I found the water so beautiful, that I bathed myself."
whatamithinking
"I assume you're getting the whole thing in English but I do see those three songs in French, and not the rest."