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Originally Posted by chuckinca
You coulda just said his name and he was a great server.
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Originally Posted by charlie49
'You coulda just said his name and he was a great server.'
When was the last time someone referred to a waiter as the 'white guy?'
A person may also say we got paired up with a black guy for golf, but, never say we got paired up with a white guy.
It is ironic that the original post used 'person of color' in awareness of being politically correct.
The comment points out a very subtle, and unintentional, difference in the way people communicate about race.
Charlie
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Only mentioned his race because it was vital to his description for interested parties to notice him. I might have said my server was a short guy who was excellently groomed. I don't think if you were sitting at a table you would have had as easy a time of locating him, but it would have been also correct.
I might describe Chuck as the guy who feels himself a better person because he criticizes people who notice the skin tone of another, regardless of the motivation of that person. I don't know if people would be able to pick him out with that description, but it's no less accurate.
I do identify caucasian people on their skin tone sometimes as being "very tan", or "pasty white" or "freckled" or some other adjective that might identify that person to another.
It's the intent Chuck. Really, get a life.