Yeahhhhh

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/hnigatu/racial-microagressions-you-hear-on-a-daily-basis

[Chelagoras The Boulder]

I've had good friends insist upon #8, cuz apparently i'm not brown enough to be a REAL Mexican.

[LMNO]

Sad to admit, I've done a few of these.

Apologies from my past selves.

[Reginald Ret]

Sad to admit, I've done a few of these.

Apologies from my past selves.

Me too, and i still occasionally do.
This is one of the reasons why i try to avoid talking to people, I say stupid shit.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I kinda like the "You're really pretty...for a dark-skinned girl" one.

Someone missed an awesome chance to stop talking, right before the italicized bit.  And it's not even the skin color statement.  If you're going to remark on someone's beauty, brains, maturity, etc...DON'T FUCKING QUALIFY IT.  DAMN.

[Junkenstein]

#13's expression is priceless. Also nicely put.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

To be fair, I would think it was weird that she listens to Carrie Underwood too, but not because she's black. Because she listens to Carrie Underwood.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Okay, stepping my foot in it in hopes that I come out of this less stupid: what's the deal with the "you're white" one? I can imagine contexts in which it becomes offensive (i.e. "that can't be your dad, you're white" or "what do you mean you celebrate kwanza with your bi-racial family, you're white") but I can see others where I would still say or think that at someone and think that I was in the right. I mean, that girl holding the sign is whiter than the snow in Vermont. She may have a biological parent that's another race, or she might be the whitest person in Mexico, or she might be adopted into a family of another race, but that is not the face of a person who is going to see a lot of racial discrimination in her lifetime. She's not going to get pulled over for driving while black. No one is going to assume she's a terrorist at the airport (any more than the norm).

I dunno. I'm stuck on that one, which probably means I'm wrong about something.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Okay, stepping my foot in it in hopes that I come out of this less stupid: what's the deal with the "you're white" one? I can imagine contexts in which it becomes offensive (i.e. "that can't be your dad, you're white" or "what do you mean you celebrate kwanza with your bi-racial family, you're white") but I can see others where I would still say or think that at someone and think that I was in the right. I mean, that girl holding the sign is whiter than the snow in Vermont. She may have a biological parent that's another race, or she might be the whitest person in Mexico, or she might be adopted into a family of another race, but that is not the face of a person who is going to see a lot of racial discrimination in her lifetime. She's not going to get pulled over for driving while black. No one is going to assume she's a terrorist at the airport (any more than the norm).

I dunno. I'm stuck on that one, which probably means I'm wrong about something.

I don't think that has anything to do with people commenting on her race, but that her tastes are non-white.

"Stop doing that thing you enjoy. You're too white for that."

[Nephew Twiddleton]

It is weird that that girl listens to Carrie Underwood.

Not because she's black, but... because she listens to Carrie Underwood.

Damn dude, do we have a brain link or something?

[hooplala]

It is weird that that girl listens to Carrie Underwood.

Not because she's black, but... because she listens to Carrie Underwood.

Damn dude, do we have a brain link or something?

Yeah, I really have to stop responding before reading the rest of the thread.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Okay, stepping my foot in it in hopes that I come out of this less stupid: what's the deal with the "you're white" one? I can imagine contexts in which it becomes offensive (i.e. "that can't be your dad, you're white" or "what do you mean you celebrate kwanza with your bi-racial family, you're white") but I can see others where I would still say or think that at someone and think that I was in the right. I mean, that girl holding the sign is whiter than the snow in Vermont. She may have a biological parent that's another race, or she might be the whitest person in Mexico, or she might be adopted into a family of another race, but that is not the face of a person who is going to see a lot of racial discrimination in her lifetime. She's not going to get pulled over for driving while black. No one is going to assume she's a terrorist at the airport (any more than the norm).

I dunno. I'm stuck on that one, which probably means I'm wrong about something.

I don't think that has anything to do with people commenting on her race, but that her tastes are non-white.

"Stop doing that thing you enjoy. You're too white for that."

Taking a second look at her, she could be Latina. I've known a few that I would have assumed were not.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

It is weird that that girl listens to Carrie Underwood.

Not because she's black, but... because she listens to Carrie Underwood.

Damn dude, do we have a brain link or something?

Yeah, I really have to stop responding before reading the rest of the thread.

No worries dude, I liked it.

[hooplala]

Okay, stepping my foot in it in hopes that I come out of this less stupid: what's the deal with the "you're white" one? I can imagine contexts in which it becomes offensive (i.e. "that can't be your dad, you're white" or "what do you mean you celebrate kwanza with your bi-racial family, you're white") but I can see others where I would still say or think that at someone and think that I was in the right. I mean, that girl holding the sign is whiter than the snow in Vermont. She may have a biological parent that's another race, or she might be the whitest person in Mexico, or she might be adopted into a family of another race, but that is not the face of a person who is going to see a lot of racial discrimination in her lifetime. She's not going to get pulled over for driving while black. No one is going to assume she's a terrorist at the airport (any more than the norm).

I dunno. I'm stuck on that one, which probably means I'm wrong about something.

Perhaps "white" isn't her preferred self identification label.

[Faust]

What's with the Garcia one as well I don't get it.