Damn, minding your own business meanwhile the person next to you playing 4D chess on how to get you to offend them.
Meanwhile I’m out here wondering; What carrier are you on??? I’m tired of Sprint cutting out when I’m on the toilet
It all depends on where you live too. Verizon got terrible signal where I used to live and Att was great. Where I live now it’s switched around. But Verizon gets great data where I live now and horrible regular “voice.” Another fun one is that many retailers or other large venues have their own local wireless and certain retailers are known to use certain networks on a given band. Those bands are commonly used by certain carriers- so while in store you might not have signal at all depending on your service. ATT for instance often doesn’t work in Target stores.
Ok, so we’ve been over this before but let’s look at the story..... What relevance is the man’s race? Of all the details- not that he was a certain age range, or looked like a bimbo/fuckboy/whatever- but his race was relevant to the story enough for this person that they thought to mention it? What does his race have to do with anything in the story or YOU believing he would hit on you, or cheat on his partner?
People like to dismiss it and say it doesn’t mean anything- but that’s not really how language works is it? Race is an adjective here right? But she didn’t need to describe the phone did she? She didn’t feel she needed to tell us he was on Android or IOS or Windows. None of those add to the story. None help us understand the story do they? So she left them out. But she didn’t leave out the race. Now- if I tell you I’m was sitting next to an <adjective> guy on a plane- the adjective helps set up the story, or understand. A HUGE guy- oh? Well... without the rest of the story we can picture what might be the case. Sitting next to a HUGE person on a plane? Their size could be relevant in a lot of ways.
Now, if I’m telling a story about how a guy got stopped by airport security 4 times while in line, and he Looked perhaps like he was of Arab decent- race COULD be relevant there. We can infer that he was stopped because of his race or looking a certain race. That’s relevant. If I tell you about a guy who threw trash on the floor, or helped a lost child; what does race have to do with it? There is an inherent implication that people of that race are prone to a behavior as a general fact.
So- if the guy on the plane had been white, Asian, would she have assumed he would hit on her? If yes: then why specify the man was black if not racial bias? If no- then we’ve already found racial bias and we are back to... racial bias.
Meanwhile I’m out here wondering; What carrier are you on??? I’m tired of Sprint cutting out when I’m on the toilet