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Ben J

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1st Mar 13 at 12:09

Rocked up at an appt. Walk in. Met the student once before. Mistake another staff member as my student. Apologise, and say "sorry, i'm terrible with faces, and you both look the same"

My learner and the staff member who I thought she was are both black.

FFS. Didn't mean it in a racist way at all.

[Edited on 01-03-2013 by Ben J]

[Edited on 01-03-2013 by Ben J]

Whittie

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1st Mar 13 at 12:12

LOL would have been worse if they were Chinese.

I hate it when blacks play the racial card, 9 times out of 10 it's their active mind when nothing was meant and you wouldn't even think a racial comment.

Ben J

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1st Mar 13 at 12:15

quote:
Originally posted by Whittie
LOL would have been worse if they were Chinese.

I hate it when blacks play the racial card, 9 times out of 10 it's their active mind when nothing was meant and you wouldn't even think a racial comment.

Tbf she didn't accuse me of racism, and I just pretended i'd never said it in the hope that she would realise it was a genuine comment. They do both look the same. Same height, braids, etc.

evilrob

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1st Mar 13 at 12:20

That's amazing.

I have a similar story. I was sitting in Heathrow Airport with my girlfriend, when she pointed at an unusual object across from us fixed to one of the various pillars throughout the waiting lounge, asking "What's that funny-looking black thing?"

Unfortunately, she had failed to realise that in a sea of white people, there was a single man quite clearly of African descent sitting precisely in the direction in which she was pointing.

An elderly lady sitting next to her leaned over and whispered, loudly, "Shh... it's a *man* - they're quite common these days, dear." before giving her a smile and a knowing nod.

She nearly died of embarrassment.

Ben J

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1st Mar 13 at 12:26

lol

John

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1st Mar 13 at 12:31

don't see how thread title relates to story?

Gary

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1st Mar 13 at 12:38

Think it's just you being stupid/awkward

John

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1st Mar 13 at 12:40

Doubt that. I'm not picking on you either Ben, just your 2 threads have caught my attention at lunchtime

Gary

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1st Mar 13 at 12:43

quote:
Originally posted by John
Doubt that.

I don't

Mike

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1st Mar 13 at 13:43

Accidentally racist? How does that work then?

mwg

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1st Mar 13 at 14:11

I don't think you were racist though. This is the problem now people are scared to say anything because things that aren't racist are now being classed as being racist. It's ridiculous

Dave

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1st Mar 13 at 14:22

People mistake me for my brother quite regularly, especially on nights out. Never even realised they were being racist, I'll be sure to pick them up on it now though, the cunts

Ben J

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1st Mar 13 at 15:24

Okay, title should be "I've potentially been judged to have made a racist comment, but actually it wasn't intended to be racist"

3CorsaMeal

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1st Mar 13 at 16:05

If a blind person said two people smell the same and it just so happened those people were black, would the blind person be racist?

same thing imo, but you aren't blind, just using your eyes instead of nose.

Ben J

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1st Mar 13 at 16:13

Yeah but its a perception that somebody racist would say all blacks/chinese etc look the same

3CorsaMeal

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1st Mar 13 at 16:18

Sometimes i look at the army videos on tv and think to myself, i could see the sand people thinking the US and UK troops "all look the same"

taylorboosh

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1st Mar 13 at 16:19

Huge generalisation, not even a tiny bit racist...

Its more racist to think its racist

mattk

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1st Mar 13 at 18:59

I fitted a shower rail once in a blackies flat, only a temp one till the tiler had done his thing.

I said to him " that rail is only on little screws for now so dont go swinging on it"

taylorboosh

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1st Mar 13 at 19:12

Fucking lol

Ben J

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1st Mar 13 at 19:14

quote:
Originally posted by mattk
I fitted a shower rail once in a blackies flat, only a temp one till the tiler had done his thing.

I said to him " that rail is only on little screws for now so dont go swinging on it"

Did he say anything?

Hammer

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1st Mar 13 at 19:51

Could have spelled accidentally properly after having a couple of go's

Ian

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1st Mar 13 at 23:42

No doubt some liberal fake anger hippy will report you and you'll get in to lots of trouble for not running every single truthful comment through your PC filter.

flybikeslee

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2nd Mar 13 at 00:04

Lee_fr200

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2nd Mar 13 at 00:13

Lol

Toby

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2nd Mar 13 at 07:42

Why would that be considered racist? Wouldn't say that about two white people and have the same train of thought? And even if it was because they were black that they looked similar, that's still fact.

I appreciate that in this day and age you need to be careful but its this type of behaviour that causes more and more occasions like this. Treat everyone the same, be it on the racist side of things or even on the P.C. side of things I.e. don't say some discriminating bit at the same time don't not say something that you would happy say should they be white because your afraid to upset a different race/colour

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