I grew my hair out for a while and got told that I looked like Charles Manson by a Filipino man. Get over yourself, shit like that happens to everyone at some point regardless of race or education level.
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· 7 years ago
Did you look like Charles Manson though?
Honest question
The point I was making was that he doesn't follow the stereotype.
So, yes, I have to follow aforementioned stereotype to say he's not the stereotype.
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· 7 years ago
This sucks and all. I just wonder where all these boldly rude white people are. I know plenty of people that might think racist stuff (still bad), and they'll say racist stuff behind your back to other white people (also bad, decidedly so). But I don't know a white man alive who'll look a black person in the face say that they look like a thug because they're black and have a beanie and dreadlocks.
Don't get me wrong. Those people are definitely terrible, but I think they are the minority among whites, as per my experience.
Also, how stupid are you that, if you think someone is a thug, you tell them to their face? If I think someone is a thug, regardless of the color of their skin, I keep a safe distance.
"This sucks and all." = Validating his experience
"Those people are definitely terrible." = Validating his experience
Saying that someone's experience was an outlier does not invalidate their experience at all; it simply points out that it's a statistical anomaly.
If I were to demand evidence, dismiss his experience as "not as bad as you think", or insist he were "asking for it" by wearing a beanie, I would be invalidating his experience.
"This sucks and all" & "these people are definitely terrible, BUT" both statements come off as incrediblely dismissive. And my point is that you can't say that this situation is an outlier just because you haven't personally experienced it.
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· 7 years ago
Okay, so if you take the Amtrak to ISU, which Kadeem does, since it's the only train that goes to ISU, where he's pursuing his Ed.S (this can all be found on his LinkedIn profile and his Twitter)—the avg. daily Amtrak carries 600 people a day through Bloomington station.
One person out of the ~600 on the train said he looked like a thug. This is the only time he's tweeted about it, so let's assume it didn't happen during the 4 other work/school days during the week of Oct 19. Without adjusting for demographics, that makes the odds of him being called a thug 1 in 3000. That's .03%.
Nobody should have said he looked like a thug, but being called a thug .03% of the time is by definition an outlying example.
This has nothing to do with my personal experience anymore, this has to do with math.
"you look like a thug" is not even close to a racist comment. It is a statement of fact. She apparently didn't say that she believed him to be an uneducated gang banger just because he is black (or that he should return to the plantation), just that he doesn't look as presentable as he could. I'd bet my left testicle that whatever school he was on his way to graduate from required him to dress for the ceremony when he got there. The simple fact is if you don't care any more about yourself than to go out into public looking like shit, people will see shit. If that's your bag, great; you do you. Just don't act offended because someone sees you differently than you see yourself.
Honest question
Nice grammar.
Clean face.
He doesn't look like a thug to me.
So, yes, I have to follow aforementioned stereotype to say he's not the stereotype.
Don't get me wrong. Those people are definitely terrible, but I think they are the minority among whites, as per my experience.
"Those people are definitely terrible." = Validating his experience
Saying that someone's experience was an outlier does not invalidate their experience at all; it simply points out that it's a statistical anomaly.
If I were to demand evidence, dismiss his experience as "not as bad as you think", or insist he were "asking for it" by wearing a beanie, I would be invalidating his experience.
One person out of the ~600 on the train said he looked like a thug. This is the only time he's tweeted about it, so let's assume it didn't happen during the 4 other work/school days during the week of Oct 19. Without adjusting for demographics, that makes the odds of him being called a thug 1 in 3000. That's .03%.
Nobody should have said he looked like a thug, but being called a thug .03% of the time is by definition an outlying example.
This has nothing to do with my personal experience anymore, this has to do with math.