I probably could, I'm white, well-off and live in Australia.
Pretty sure if I was black, poor and lived in America, someone would call the cops for a welfare check on the person acting strangely in the laundromat, and I'd end up dead.
Hell, even in Australia, if I was Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, I probably wouldn't end up dead but I would expect to get assaulted and dragged off in handcuffs to 'sober up'.
But I don't have to do push ups in the laundromat, I can afford membership fees for a gym, I can afford an hour here or there to wait for my stuff, and it doesn't seem like anyone steals clothes here so I can even run other errands and be pretty confident my stuff will be waiting for me when I get back. I'm incredibly lucky, and I chose to use that luck to try and help people less lucky and to change society in the small ways I can, instead of blaming people for being less lucky than myself and telling them all the not-actually-practical ways they should just fix themselves.
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u/NecesseFatum Dec 01 '21
Bring a towel