What's new
By:

Racist, or just careful?

One Brow said:
Don't forget that another woman, who explicitly said she didn't have a ticket, was nonetheless escorted downstairs.

I think, if you had been told that dwarfs, or obese people, or ugly people, weren't being allowed because of what some unrelated short/obese/ugly person had done a couple of weeks ago, you'd have a pretty good reason to chalk that up to your height/weight/appearance.

You're right that approaching a supervisor might have helped. Unfortunately, it's not always easy to think of that option in the moment.
Click to expand...

Holy ****, bro. I said I was short, not a dwarf! My wife's the midget...

Edit for those who might like to know... https://www.diffen.com/difference/Dwarf_vs_Midget
 
One Brow said:
Some posters get responded to with rage, some with dialogue. I'm the same person on both those conversations.



The only reason I know about her skin tone is because of the treatment she received based on her skin tone.


It brightens my day to accuse humans of being human?
Click to expand...

You get to make assumptions about my personality, emotions and view points with out kowing me so I can do the same.

You delight in being able to call people racists.

Her skin tone does not matter to me because to me it has no bearing on what kind of person she is or can be. But feel free to make some more wildly incorrect assumptions about me.
 
One Brow said:
If it happened 90% as she said?
Click to expand...

IF then I'd side with her. But we can play if games all day long. I have also allowed for the probability from the beginning that she was the victim of racism. You never allowed for anything different.
 
One Brow said:
It brightens my day to accuse humans of being human?
Click to expand...

You go to the phrase "humans being human" frequently.

In some other thread I commented on people learning to be nicer to each other. You dismissed the idea as futile based on "humans being human". You've used it in the gun control discussion, too.

So... if humans treating each other bad is inevitable, why should I get upset at all? There's nothing I can do about it, right?

You can't have it both ways.
 
AND it's a good thing the woman who wrote this is 4'11" tall, or we might be discussing whether or not this was an incident of heightism - either instead of, or in addition to, racism!
 
One Brow said:
Of course. My point is that we all (myself included) are raised in, learn from, and participate in a culture where; with no hate, malice, ill will, or intention; we have learned to make quick judgments that have negative consequences for people with darker skin. When we make these judgments, even though we don't intend harm, we actually do harm. Because this culture is in all of our communities, it's not just white people that do this, these judgments are also made by blacks, Asians, Native Americans, etc. Because these judgments are automatic and almost reflexive, it's not enough to simply say. "I don't hate you. I think you are equal." If we want to live that rhetoric, we need to keep in mind that our first impressions will usually be wrong. We need to actively fight our "instincts".
Click to expand...
I agree with this to an extent. The thing about race is that it's the most easily identifiable characteristic a person has, so people tend to associate actions by the characteristic they can identify easily and categorize them based on that. It's unfair for sure, but I honestly don't know how it can be changed unless the population goes blind. Then people would start discriminating against people on the sound of their voice or something else. I'm no anthropologist, but I honestly wonder if it's a survival instinct that's been encoded into us. The more you trusted people who weren't in your tribe, the greater likelihood you were to be killed by them until one tribe assimilated the other.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page
Back
Top