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WCDT strips 3931-3935 (4th to 8th February 2019)
Shjade:
--- Quote from: neurocase on 08 Feb 2019, 02:34 ---So the default behavior is to treat everyone as a grey blob? Still seems strange to me, but I'll accept it's just something that I can't understand since I'm white, and move on.
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You just got two different responses to this the last time you said it, and neither of them was "treat everyone as a grey blob."
At this point I have to conclude you're making these statements in bad faith rather than out of ignorance.
neurocase:
--- Quote from: Shjade on 08 Feb 2019, 02:36 ---
--- Quote from: neurocase on 08 Feb 2019, 02:34 ---So the default behavior is to treat everyone as a grey blob? Still seems strange to me, but I'll accept it's just something that I can't understand since I'm white, and move on.
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You just got two different responses to this the last time you said it, and neither of them was "treat everyone as a grey blob."
At this point I have to conclude you're making these statements in bad faith rather than out of ignorance.
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Not bad faith at all. I've read and re-read the replies, and I still have the immense sense that I just don't "get it" beyond the general idea of "don't bring up anything about a person that could be viewed as making them different, even with positive intention". I'm not particularly skilled at interpreting social cues through text. Also, I just noticed that I had posted the reply above before I saw that you had edited your post.
oddtail:
--- Quote from: neurocase on 08 Feb 2019, 02:41 ---I just don't "get it" beyond the general idea of "don't bring up anything about a person that could be viewed as making them different, even with positive intention".
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I would say that's a good first step. You don't have to pretend people aren't different, but it's up to anyone to bring up their own differences, and give you a roadmap on how to discuss the subject. It's not anywhere the same as "treating them as a gray blob". It's about treating them as a person, and part of being a person is not being reduced to one characteristic when and if you don't WANT that to be the focus.
neurocase:
What I ask now, I don't ask sarcastically, but genuinely: I'm an expat in my country; up until now, should I have been assuming that anyone asking me where I was from didn't think I should be here? Because that genuinely didn't occur to me. I was always happy to answer because I assumed it was out of curiosity, but now I'm a little unsure what to think :/
Case:
--- Quote from: badbum61 on 07 Feb 2019, 21:38 ---Lebanese? With a name like Brunhilde? Wouldn't have picked that!
Guess it explains the eyebrows, though...
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