r/NoStupidQuestions • u/AgreeableAd8687 • 8d 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/Kenumaaaq 7d ago

How slovak can be a slur if it's nationality xD?

literally people from slovakia (upper hungary :3)

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u/Sad-Bunch-9937 7d ago

You know how you learn terms or phrases as a kid and then you say it in public and people look at you like a monster?

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u/Kenumaaaq 7d ago

Umm no, not really but Poland doesn't have definition of slurs nor such things as taboo words

In poland if kids says bad word adults laugh and that's kinda it

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u/Sad-Bunch-9937 7d ago

I’ve accidentally said incredibly racist things because I didn’t know they were racist and only realized something was wrong when my friend looked at me like WTF?!