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Are you a person of color? Because the issue was about racial discrimination. I don't doubt she may treat non color folks great but you may not be hearing the w
by esturk 8y ago
Are you a person of color? Because the issue was about racial discrimination. I don't doubt she may treat non color folks great but you may not be hearing the whole story.
- barking 8y agoOTOH any company trying to desperately restore its reputation might be inclined to act on the merest whiff of an allegation of this sort.
- b6 8y agoI'm not sure if I'm a person of color. Could you explain how one would find out?
- chirau 8y agoWhat is your race?
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- b6 8y agoI don't know. How do I find out for sure?
- slowmotiony 8y agoCan you say the N word to black people without being charged with a hate crime?
- function_seven 8y agoI guess if you really don't know, ask your parents?
- b6 8y agoI asked them. They're not sure either. Is there a test we can do to know for sure?
- function_seven 8y ago[Deleted] My apologies dang, sctb.
- dang 8y agoPlease also stop.
- dang 8y agoPlease stop.
- pjc50 8y agoAsk an adult? Are you usually treated as nonwhite by strangers?
- b6 8y agoYou're suggesting I don't have adult intellectual capacity, right? If it's an easy question, could you just answer it? I'm not sure what "treated as nonwhite" would entail.
- InclinedPlane 8y agoYou used the internet to ask a question that could be googled in seconds. You are not of adult intellectual capacity, demonstrably so.
- b6 8y agoI see, sorry about that. Are you able to answer the question in your own words?
- fifnir 8y agoI don't know how to make my own words, can you elaborate please?
- b6 8y agoSure. What I'm asking for is an explain-like-I'm-5 style explanation of how you determine whether someone is a person of color. Are you able to do that? Thanks.
- sctb 8y agoPlease, everyone stop this back-and-forth nonsense. It's trolling and troll-feeding in effect regardless of intention and it has no business on a site where we want the chance to actually learn something.
- mikekchar 8y agoI'm not really interested in your word game, but the comment made me think of something. I'm a "visible minority" in Japan. It's easy to know because I can see the difference between myself and most people that I interact with. I was looking in the mirror one time and suddenly thought, "Wow! I'm pink. I mean, not just a little pink -- I'm super pink". I'd never thought about it before. It's just that after a decade of looking at everybody else that has a kind of tanned complexion, my view of "normal" had changed. I used to have a pink shirt. I took out my pink shirt and put it on. "Wow. I look like a peach", I thought. I've never worn that shirt again. It doesn't suit my complexion. I don't know why I thought it suited my complexion before. What was I thinking, pink on pink? It's just crazy. Don't get me wrong. I don't mind being pink. I've been pink my whole life and for a large majority of it, I didn't even notice. Most people were pink where I grew up. There were other people who were more tanned, and even some people who were kind of super tanned. I never really paid attention to it. It didn't matter to me. But after I realised that I was super pink, I started to wonder if those people realised that they were super tanned. Did it bother them? Some people (very few to be honest) have treated me poorly only because I was pink. It hasn't really bothered me so far. It's not like I can change colour. In my original country, some people treated me poorly because I liked computers too much. When I moved to Japan, some people treated me poorly because I liked Japan too much. I probably could have changed those things, but I didn't. People treating me poorly for stupid reasons is crappy, but I'm too stubborn to worry about it much. I've met people who have suffered greatly because of it, though. I feel bad for them. Anyway, it doesn't really matter, but I think the real answer to your question is that if you've never thought about it, then you are not a person of colour. If you suddenly realise what colour you are, then you will be. Whether you are or not makes very little difference to most people except you. Hopefully people won't treat you poorly (including because of what colour they think you are), but... there's always something isn't there? Whether it's because of your colour, or because they think you are annoying, or because they are just mad at something completely different and decide to take it out on you. But yeah, the colour thing exists, even if you aren't aware of it.
- taneq 8y agoI had something similar after two months in Thailand. All of the people I saw when I got home were so... caucasian. And tall. With weird-shaped noses, and so many different kinds and colours of hair. It was weird.