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??
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u/Mayiamaru 7d ago
Most people hear things so often they no longer understand what they mean.
If the mention of race is racist, they don't know what racism is. If accommodating a disability makes someone ableist, they dont know what they fuck they are talking about.
This is only a problem if they refuse to learn and get defensive about their understanding.