Help me understand...

[knot_sweet]

Ok, I struggle to understand how using skin colour as part of a description is considered racist.

If I say, "the short white chick with brown hair and glasses"

Or "the asian guy in the basketball shorts"

Or "the black guy with the laptop bag"

Why is that considered racist? If it's a desciption without any implied judgement, how am I a racist?

I only ask because someone called me a racist the other day for using a person's skin colour to help describe them to a stranger who needed to find them.

Needless to say this has me a bit perplexed so I thought I'd ask here, where race seems to be a touchy issue.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Connubium]

Describing someones colour isn't racist, making assumptions or comments about someone because of their colour or race is racist.


This probably isn't the best board to ask about racism, I've read some disgusting racial slurs on here before and hardly anyone bats a cyber-eye at it, and there's always some excuse 'Oh that's just typical ****'

 

[CandiCame]

I do that all the time. If it's racist, then whatever. Coloration is a thing.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

A significant portion of every society needs a reason to be upset and act-out. In the psychology business we call it a RACKET. Racism is the current and most popular racket. Sixty years ago these same people looked for communists, 4 centuries ago they hunted witches. These people are narcissists, what they want from the racket is re-confirmation that theyre cool and everyone else sux.

The cops came to my house the other day looking for one of my neighbors. I didnt know her name, and requested a description. She's blond. So are half the women on my street. She's 50 something. Ditto. When the cop streched out his arms to allude to her fat ass I knew who he wanted. Color is okay as a descriptor, so is big ass, or decayed teeth.

 

[knot_sweet]

Guess I must have just hit a nerve on an overly sensitive person then.

Thanks, cos really, I was pretty worried.

I have to travel for work reasons a lot, and it really did bother me that people might actually think that.

Guess I can relax.

 

[dolf]

it's no more racist than saying ''the girl with curly, blond hair'' if it's only used in the same way, in the same tone and with the same implications that you'd say ''the girl with curly, blond hair'' with.

 

[kbate]

it's no more racist than saying ''the girl with curly, blond hair'' if it's only used in the same way, in the same tone and with the same implications that you'd say ''the girl with curly, blond hair'' with.

I agree with everything you said except for ending it with 'with'.

isn't it neat the way I used 'with' three times in one sentence?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Ok, I struggle to understand how using skin colour as part of a description is considered racist.

If I say, "the short white chick with brown hair and glasses"

Or "the asian guy in the basketball shorts"

Or "the black guy with the laptop bag"

Why is that considered racist? If it's a desciption without any implied judgement, how am I a racist?

I only ask because someone called me a racist the other day for using a person's skin colour to help describe them to a stranger who needed to find them.

Needless to say this has me a bit perplexed so I thought I'd ask here, where race seems to be a touchy issue.

Thanks in advance.

Because words no longer mean things. By making the language plastic, we can be Balkanized and censored even as we use the same words to impart emotive responses from the mob all wired up on 'government education.'

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I agree with everything you said except for ending it with 'with'.

isn't it neat the way I used 'with' three times in one sentence?

I could live with the ending of a sentence in a preposition if she would just discover the shift key...

 

[kbate]

Because words no longer mean things. By making the language plastic, we can be Balkanized and censored even as we use the same words to impart emotive responses from the mob all wired up on 'government education.'

No, really it was because she or he was sitting with an overly sensitive jerkwad and systemic government infiltration of our thought process didn't actually come into play.

 

[kbate]

I could live with the ending of a sentence in a preposition if she would just discover the shift key...

I honoured her by refusing to capitalise my second sentence. I'm nice that way and would not point out her shifty ways.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Describing someones colour isn't racist, making assumptions or comments about someone because of their colour or race is racist.


...

No it is not. It is prejudice* and when it rises above that to the level of dislike or hate, it is bigotry.

Racism is a belief in the inferiority or superiority of an individual related solely to his race.

This is exactly what I referred to in my above comment.

When you describe them by skin color, then it is merely an observation.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I honoured her by refusing to capitalise my second sentence. I'm nice that way and would not point out her shifty ways.

She is as shifty as I am shiftless...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

No, really it was because she or he was sitting with an overly sensitive jerkwad and systemic government infiltration of our thought process didn't actually come into play.

It is not just government, they have allies who entertain us and ivory tower dreamers who infuse them with these ideas of a Utopia to be here on Earth...














... too bad for them their clay is the common man.

 

[Byron In Exile]

It's my belief that all this controversy could be avoided were it not for the rabbits.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It's my belief that all this controversy could be avoided were it not for the rabbits.

ducks...

 

[kbate]

It is not just government, they have allies who entertain us and ivory tower dreamers who infuse them with these ideas of a Utopia to be here on Earth... too bad for them their clay is the common man.

The same person who cried racist in post 1, would have come back half an hour later and said, "Why didn't you tell me he was black, you could have saved me ten minutes of looking!" Some people are assholes and have a need to feel superior to others, and will jump on any opportunity to belittle.

 

[kbate]

It's my belief that all this controversy could be avoided were it not for the rabbits.

Hounds>rabbits.

 

[Byron In Exile]

You are both cruising for a lecture and a video right now.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The same person who cried racist in post 1, would have come back half an hour later and said, "Why didn't you tell me he was black, you could have saved me ten minutes of looking!" Some people are assholes and have a need to feel superior to others, and will jump on any opportunity to belittle.

Look at how much trouble Treyvon Martin got into with his edited tape...

He should have just said, he looks a lot like Obama's son, because that covers a whole spectrum of hue while giving plausible deniability.



Now, let us focus on the important issue. Wabbit or duck season?

 

[doubleover]

Ok, I struggle to understand how using skin colour as part of a description is considered racist.



I only ask because someone called me a racist the other day for using a person's skin colour to help describe them to a stranger who needed to find them.

Were you talking to RoryN ?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Were you talking to RoryN ?

Good point. Rory can detect racism in the phrase "Good Morning..."

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You are both cruising for a lecture and a video right now.

Pull the trigger.

kbate has tied your double-barrels into a bow...

 

[Byron In Exile]

Good point. Rory can detect racism in the phrase "Good Morning..."

Well, it gets light in the morning and white people have light skin, so there you are.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Pull the trigger.

kbate has tied your double-barrels into a bow...

Looks straight from here.