Misc.Oct 19, 2019
AmazonCLVA77

was this racist?

was in an uber pool. a white man enters with his 16 year old kid. I greet him and get back to my phone. He asks me what I do for a living. I told him that i worked at Amazon. He said and I quote "I know a lot of your people who work there".

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Samsung tipsycode Oct 19, 2019

Are you black? Then it is but any other race it's not

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qdJo63 Oct 23, 2019

Asian? Middle Eastern? European? South American?

Instasize cplus Oct 19, 2019

The only thing for certain is you’re very sensitive. Try to get over yourself

Hulu CgDlJ64709 Oct 19, 2019

Agreed. Why is everything racist nowadays?!? 😑

Microsoft cholical Oct 19, 2019

Plot twist OP is also a white man

Microsoft megamanX Oct 20, 2019

🤣

Google topCon Oct 19, 2019

It was a compliment

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movingback Oct 20, 2019

This.

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qdJo63 Oct 23, 2019

How's "your people" a compliment? it's demining.

Apple —wtf— Oct 19, 2019

I mean thats a fact, and its not racist to state facts. His tone with which he said, matters more though, and that's very subjective. It's also easy to think either way. Sometimes, in a restaurant my friends think the server is being racist, but to me he just seems grumpy, because I may have noticed him being inattentive and unfriendly to most others.

Clover Health sinkinship Oct 20, 2019

Sounds like you might just be unable to spot racism. Your friends got your back. To be more clear, you can be unfriendly to most and still be racist.

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qdJo63 Oct 23, 2019

"it's not racist to state facts" you can't be more wrong about this. Most of the shitty things in history have been done by white people (fact), but you can't rub it into people's faces. It's just racist and rude.

Cisco boooombox Oct 19, 2019

It definitely is rude and a very 'informal' way to address a race. I wouldn't be surprised if this man is a racist in his life but just this sentence is not good enough to judge

Cisco ┬┴┤ಠ_ಠ) Oct 19, 2019

Your people=your coworkers? But probably just racist

Cisco boooombox Oct 19, 2019

Your people= your race/color

Intel koyla Oct 19, 2019

Why are other people of my race, ‘my people’ ? Doesn’t sound great to me

Lockheed Martin Schz3 Oct 19, 2019

Any chance he met nerds?

Cisco boooombox Oct 19, 2019

Very rare usage of classifying and using a term for people such as jocks or nerds or hippies. The usage for stereotyping them would be different, I guess.

Google LyLs67 Oct 19, 2019

Are you Indian or Chinese? I think this goes as a maybe. Depends on the tone.