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8/29/2015 11:12:18 PM
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Why don't you use the color of someone's skin to describe them?
[b]Why don't you use the color of someone's skin to describe them?[/b]
Earlier today, a woman who works at the grocery store with me came up to me and pointed out that this one woman was going up to the "bag your own" section full of nuts and candies and would fill up a bag and eat it while she shopped. She said she was going to say something if she saw her do it again.
When I asked "Which woman?"
she said, "The woman with the turquoise turban thing."
It was hardly a turban but eventually I figured out which woman she was talking about.
What I don't get it why she didn't refer to her as "the big/fat black lady."
Why are people so afraid to use someone's skin color to describe them?
Another example: when I'm playing pick-up basketball games at my gym. "Who's on our team?" "You, me, him, him, and the guy in the white shirt over there."
"Which guy in the white shirt? They're both wearing white shirts."
"Black shorts, red shoes." (One was black one was white).
Could he have not just said, "the white guy?"
TL; DR Why are people so afraid to use someone's skin color to describe them?
Tell me flood. Why? Do you try not to use someone's race or skin color when describing them? Is it not "politically correct"?
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Well in my opinion it's fine to describe people by skin color, because then you're just telling someone what they look like. It should only be considered racist if you do it in a mean way or for mean reasons.
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Because noticing the truth about someone is called bigotry
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Because nowadays, a grocery bagger could make a statement like that and have it spread alllllll over social media until they have been crucified by the world's do-gooders. And Tumblr.
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PC master race (Politically correct) I don't get everyone's aversion to race. It [b][i]does[/i][/b] exist, it is physical feature. Just because you describe someone as such doesn't mean you automatically look down on them or think about them differently.
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I don't understand that either. As long as you are respectful about it.
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Because ignorance is sometimes being so afraid of being racist you are every now and then, or you act like a complete idiot. But they don't realize this.
