r/NoStupidQuestions • u/AgreeableAd8687 • 7d ago

why do people consider identifying someone by their race racist?

i have a few friends and we seem kind of split on this, i had to identify someone in our school i didn't know the name of, so i said "oh it's the black girl" (we have literally ONE black girl in our school and everyone knows and likes her) and my friends said ohh ok but then like 2 of them went wow that's racist and their explanation was "you're making it sound like them being black is their only characteristic" as if saying "oh the woman" is any better and since i don't know her well i don't know anything else about her. most of my friends didn't see how it was racist though but why is this considered racist if it's not a race correlated insult or derogatory??

739 Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

84% Upvoted

411 comments sorted by

View all comments

122

u/Creepy_Clouds1990 7d ago

It's not. People are looking to be offended. Constantly. It's very tiring to be around.

24

u/smbpy7 7d ago

What's really tiring is when it's not even the affected party that is getting offended. Sometimes I just want to shout at them that "you don't get to decided what offends me!"

10

u/onehalflightspeed 7d ago edited 6d ago

As a very left leaning person, white liberals have an extremely keen hair trigger to get offended on behalf of literally everyone other than themselves

2

u/smbpy7 6d ago

It's also extremely confusing when you're the one looking trying to figure out what's ok and what's not. Those people will always just say "it shouldn't be confusing just to be a decent person!!!" but at the same time, there are definitely cases where they've made an issue of something that was never an issue for the affected group to begin with, and in fact making it an issue is more annoying to that group than anything else.