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Agree, officers of color are usually nicer. The Asian cop who helped me retrieve the impound release paperwork was nice to me. Even waived the $100 paper work f

Agree, officers of color are usually nicer. The Asian cop who helped me retrieve the impound release paperwork was nice to me. Even waived the $100 paper work fee. But I'm still pissed about the whole situation. Wasted three hours and $300 because of some cop decided to arrest a sober person to kill time rather than patrolling the street and catching the real criminals. Edit: had to change colored to officers of color to be more PC.

roflchoppa 10y ago
What a complete waste of time, impound lots are even worse, i assume they did not give you an opportunity to call someone to get your car. No breathalyzer on spot?
otterley 10y ago
I'm sure you didn't intend any offense, but for future reference, "colored" is considered archaic and borderline racial-epithet in the U.S. (I realize it's quite normal and non-offensive elsewhere.)
- trungonnews 10y ago
  I didn't mean to offend. What word is more appropriate to describe cops who are not white?
  - sfrailsdev 10y ago
    Person of Color or POC. You might say, "Cops who are People of Color."
  - beisner 10y ago
    "Officers of color" is more palatable.
  - trungonnews 10y ago
    I only learned English after 11 year old. What a confusing language... I thought you guys might know some fancy word, but you only switched the words around.
    - pessimizer 10y ago
      If someone had made up a fancy word, would that have been better for you? Just accept what people want to be called. Calling black people in the US colored is fraught with problems; I'm sure you wouldn't go to Northern Ireland and call people Fenians.
    - SwellJoe 10y ago
      Race relations are complicated in the US (and in most of the world). A term that wouldn't seem problematic can become problematic because of its historical context. That's the case with many racial epithets in English...words that seemingly have no negative connotation can take on negative connotation when used for a period of time to insult or separate people based on their race, religion, origin, gender, sexual or gender identity, etc. No one blames you for not knowing; all you're responsible for is how you respond and correcting future usage. The appropriate response is something along the lines of, "I didn't know. I will say X in the future. Thanks for the heads up." And, if you haven't been told what a better option is, you can generally ask without causing upset.
    - Broken_Hippo 10y ago
      English is really confusing as a second language. To make it even more complicated, words with racial or other 'insults' change from place to place. Not only that, but the English that is standard through Europe (outside of the UK) is slightly different altogether - folks will be able to talk to other Europeans, but yet get lost when going to an English speaking country. But no worries, honestly, except for this minor slip, you seem to be doing well.
  - roflchoppa 10y ago
    i knew what you were saying. no harm intended <3
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y ago
  The problem with this bullshit. Yes bullshit. The problem with this bullshit is that the politically correct adjectives seem to change on a daily basis. I can't keep up. What word are we supposed to use in this half-hour period? Clearly the parent commenter didn't mean any harm. Can we all just relax a bit.
  - pessimizer 10y ago
    Quit with the outrage; colored has not been the term for a half-century. If you're 80 and you don't have a television, I totally get it. How exactly can you justify being so angry that someone was gently corrected?
  - SwellJoe 10y ago
    So..."can't keep up" isn't a very good excuse for a term that has been considered offensive since before most of us here were born (at least 40 years). We can be civil about calling attention to terms that are offensive, and hopefully people can accept that advice politely and without taking offense themselves. "Can we all just relax a bit." I think that's a great idea. Why don't we all just read the advice not to use "colored" to refer to people, sit with that knowledge (seemingly new for some folks), internalize it, and then move on with our day, with a sincere goal to not use that term in the future? Seems like a pretty relaxed approach to the problem, to me. After all, that's all anyone usually wants when they call out something like this. When a black person says, "Hey, don't say nigger." They aren't demanding you be arrested on the spot. They're calling out behavior that's problematic, and relying on there being good faith effort on your part to be more polite in the future.
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  - polotics 10y ago
    use the term "non whitey" ref. https://g.co/kgs/gFAiGM https://g.co/kgs/gFAiGM

roflchoppa 10y ago

What a complete waste of time, impound lots are even worse, i assume they did not give you an opportunity to call someone to get your car. No breathalyzer on spot?

otterley 10y ago

I'm sure you didn't intend any offense, but for future reference, "colored" is considered archaic and borderline racial-epithet in the U.S. (I realize it's quite normal and non-offensive elsewhere.)

trungonnews 10y ago
I didn't mean to offend. What word is more appropriate to describe cops who are not white?
- sfrailsdev 10y ago
  Person of Color or POC. You might say, "Cops who are People of Color."
- beisner 10y ago
  "Officers of color" is more palatable.
- trungonnews 10y ago
  I only learned English after 11 year old. What a confusing language... I thought you guys might know some fancy word, but you only switched the words around.
  - pessimizer 10y ago
    If someone had made up a fancy word, would that have been better for you? Just accept what people want to be called. Calling black people in the US colored is fraught with problems; I'm sure you wouldn't go to Northern Ireland and call people Fenians.
  - SwellJoe 10y ago
    Race relations are complicated in the US (and in most of the world). A term that wouldn't seem problematic can become problematic because of its historical context. That's the case with many racial epithets in English...words that seemingly have no negative connotation can take on negative connotation when used for a period of time to insult or separate people based on their race, religion, origin, gender, sexual or gender identity, etc. No one blames you for not knowing; all you're responsible for is how you respond and correcting future usage. The appropriate response is something along the lines of, "I didn't know. I will say X in the future. Thanks for the heads up." And, if you haven't been told what a better option is, you can generally ask without causing upset.
  - Broken_Hippo 10y ago
    English is really confusing as a second language. To make it even more complicated, words with racial or other 'insults' change from place to place. Not only that, but the English that is standard through Europe (outside of the UK) is slightly different altogether - folks will be able to talk to other Europeans, but yet get lost when going to an English speaking country. But no worries, honestly, except for this minor slip, you seem to be doing well.
- roflchoppa 10y ago
  i knew what you were saying. no harm intended <3
TheSpiceIsLife 10y ago
The problem with this bullshit. Yes bullshit. The problem with this bullshit is that the politically correct adjectives seem to change on a daily basis. I can't keep up. What word are we supposed to use in this half-hour period? Clearly the parent commenter didn't mean any harm. Can we all just relax a bit.
- pessimizer 10y ago
  Quit with the outrage; colored has not been the term for a half-century. If you're 80 and you don't have a television, I totally get it. How exactly can you justify being so angry that someone was gently corrected?
- SwellJoe 10y ago
  So..."can't keep up" isn't a very good excuse for a term that has been considered offensive since before most of us here were born (at least 40 years). We can be civil about calling attention to terms that are offensive, and hopefully people can accept that advice politely and without taking offense themselves. "Can we all just relax a bit." I think that's a great idea. Why don't we all just read the advice not to use "colored" to refer to people, sit with that knowledge (seemingly new for some folks), internalize it, and then move on with our day, with a sincere goal to not use that term in the future? Seems like a pretty relaxed approach to the problem, to me. After all, that's all anyone usually wants when they call out something like this. When a black person says, "Hey, don't say nigger." They aren't demanding you be arrested on the spot. They're calling out behavior that's problematic, and relying on there being good faith effort on your part to be more polite in the future.
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- polotics 10y ago
  use the term "non whitey" ref. https://g.co/kgs/gFAiGM https://g.co/kgs/gFAiGM