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It's not just police officers, but really anyone is subject to prejudice. I was sitting in a hotel once (I wasn't staying there), and some thug-gy teens came i

It's not just police officers, but really anyone is subject to prejudice. I was sitting in a hotel once (I wasn't staying there), and some thug-gy teens came in asking if they could use the phone to make the call. They were denied the privilege so they came to me to ask if I could let them use their phone. I let them use the phone under the condition that I hold it and put it on speaker. No one picked up so I went to the hotel staff and asked them if they could let them use their phone. To my surprise, the staff started to apologize to me and said they'd called security. Point of the story is that almost everyone is prejudiced against thug-looking-people and it's often misattributed to racism.

knodi123 12y ago
I literally cannot understand your second paragraph. Way too many vague pronouns and probably typos.
- dntrkv 12y ago
  Teens asked to use hotel's phone, hotel staff said no. Teens asked if they could use the OP's phone, he let them but nobody picked up. OP asked hotel staff if they could use the hotel's phone. Staff told OP they already called security on the teens because they are "thuggy" looking. At least that's how I understood it.
jacalata 12y ago
Or that peoples perceptions of "thuggishness" are partly based on racism? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140306095117.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140306095117.ht...
Steuard 12y ago
"Point of the story is that almost everyone is prejudiced against thug-looking-people and it's often misattributed to racism." I don't think I follow you here. I think that most folks concerned about racism in these situations would say that race is a big factor in how folks define "thug looking". (I'd be willing to bet that for a whole lot of people, there's a range of intermediate dress/appearance/behavior where they'd say a white person was not "thug looking" but an equivalent-looking black person was not.)

knodi123 12y ago

I literally cannot understand your second paragraph. Way too many vague pronouns and probably typos.

dntrkv 12y ago
Teens asked to use hotel's phone, hotel staff said no. Teens asked if they could use the OP's phone, he let them but nobody picked up. OP asked hotel staff if they could use the hotel's phone. Staff told OP they already called security on the teens because they are "thuggy" looking. At least that's how I understood it.

jacalata 12y ago

Or that peoples perceptions of "thuggishness" are partly based on racism? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140306095117.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140306095117.ht...

Steuard 12y ago

"Point of the story is that almost everyone is prejudiced against thug-looking-people and it's often misattributed to racism." I don't think I follow you here. I think that most folks concerned about racism in these situations would say that race is a big factor in how folks define "thug looking". (I'd be willing to bet that for a whole lot of people, there's a range of intermediate dress/appearance/behavior where they'd say a white person was not "thug looking" but an equivalent-looking black person was not.)