21 Racial Microagressions You Hear on a

[Jalapeñomel]

Daily Basis. 

Interesting study:

[bania]

Those are terrible.

[bania]

10, 11, 18 & 21 make me particularly ragey.

[Jalapeñomel]

Dec 9, 2013 18:02:58 GMT -5 nuggetbrain said:

Numbers ten and 18 are straight up racist. WTF.

And number 11 would get somebody smacked in their mouth.

Number 17, I could absolutely see myself doing if I knew the person had an "ethnic" last name but forgot and got flustered and just said what I thought was right.

In what world is it acceptable to touch someone else's clothing and rip it off? I don't care if it's a hat or a shirt, it's appalling. 

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#7 happens to H ALL THE FUCKING TIME. He HATES it. Just because his dad is from Mexico City and he has a Hispanic last name does NOT mean he speaks Spanish.

[Deleted]

#17 kind of irritates me too. I saw it a LOT growing up "there goes another Garcia" or whatever by white people in my town. It was crazy.

[Deleted]

Holy Shit. Those are terrible!

[Deleted]

Wow... In the past 2 months I've had people say versions of 3, 4, 13, 21 to me and not think anything of it. I've become a bit of a pro at reading people their rights after saying dumb racist shit to me.

[papie]

Sadly a lot of those are not surprising, yet disturbing.

I get a lot "Oh, but you speak french so well". That's because I grew up in fucking small town Quebec, where I was born. I am expected to speak like my mom because of my last name?

I heard AT WORK a guy tell a coworker "You are pretty for an indian girl". She laughed. I was sitting there silently horrified (I was new there and they knew each other well).

[Deleted]

Some of these are macro aggressions, no?

[papie]

Dec 9, 2013 18:19:27 GMT -5 cville said:

Some of these are macro aggressions, no?

Yes.  The rice smelling and the "pretty for a black girl" stand out as "should not be in that list". 

[stealthmom]

When I'm with my family it's often assumed that I'm on vacation. We once were told we're too fair to live here and we need to go to the beach more.

[BunnyMacDougal]

I really like this one.

[meshaliuknits]

Dec 9, 2013 18:02:58 GMT -5 nuggetbrain said:

Numbers ten and 18 are straight up racist. WTF.

And number 11 would get somebody smacked in their mouth.

Number 17, I could absolutely see myself doing if I knew the person had an "ethnic" last name but forgot and got flustered and just said what I thought was right.

Word.

[jane6672]

Dec 9, 2013 18:38:48 GMT -5 BunnyMacDougal said:

I really like this one.

I don't think "like" is exactly the word you want...

[BunnyMacDougal]

Dec 9, 2013 18:41:27 GMT -5 jane6672 said:

Dec 9, 2013 18:38:48 GMT -5 BunnyMacDougal said:

I really like this one.

I don't think "like" is exactly the word you want...

I like it I'm pretty sure.  In my mind I thought "good for you guy" when I saw his sign.  He's a student in the class, not the "black voice" on discussion topics.  I would absolutely HATE if people kept asking me what "my race" people did or thought about stuff.  So bigoted.

[Moe]

Yep.

I'll add, even if people still insist that this is "a compliment" the whole "wow, your English is good, you have very little accent" fucking sucks.

NOT ALL BORICUAS HAVE ONE. We don't all sound like West Side Story.

My husband has a very Italian name (due to his Italian heritage), yet when people see him, they're all "wow, you don't look Italian!!". Clearly none of them haves been to northern Italy.

A tangential comment is the whole "Garcia " vs "Rodriguez" poster, which I find a bit funny since Rodriguez in Puerto Rico is like saying Smith in the US (extraordinarily common last name).

[jane6672]

Dec 9, 2013 18:45:36 GMT -5 BunnyMacDougal said:

Dec 9, 2013 18:41:27 GMT -5 jane6672 said:

I don't think "like" is exactly the word you want...

I like it I'm pretty sure.  In my mind I thought "good for you guy" when I saw his sign.  He's a student in the class, not the "black voice" on discussion topics.  I would absolutely HATE if people kept asking me what "my race" people did or thought about stuff.  So bigoted.

lol, sorry, I just meant it looked really awkward to have "I like this" with a racist comment.

[cleo29]

I can't tell you how many times people have asked me what I am.

[Jalapeñomel]

I have a friend who is Kiowa, who was told by her doctor that she could, "pass for anything."  

[elleblue]

Dec 9, 2013 18:59:11 GMT -5 cleo29 said:

I can't tell you how many times people have asked me what I am.

People ask me this too and though I'm a mutt I'm a blue eyed blonde and it's the Nordic genes that have asserted themselves in my appearance. 

[snickers]

Horrible

[Deleted]

They forgot my favorite: "I don't see color." This is usually thrown out when a minority dares to point out that something might be racially offensive.

[LLL]

shame. "where are you from?" "you don't look/sound African" doesn't even register anymore I've heard it so much.

[Jermys]

I laugh my ass off when someone says they don't see color. Yes you do, dumbass! Saying you don't see color is so fucking offensive and smacks of white liberal guilt. Puh-leeze.

Some of those remind me why I'm saving to buy an island in the tropics.

[Moe]

Dec 9, 2013 20:09:54 GMT -5 Jermys said:

I laugh my ass off when someone says they don't see color. Yes you do, dumbass! Saying you don't see color is so fucking offensive and smacks of white liberal guilt. Puh-leeze.

Some of those remind me why I'm saving to buy an island in the tropics.

Take me with you.  

[thatgirl2478]

On number 13 - on my first day at my first 'real job' post college we were sitting around a table in orientation just chit chatting about where we were from etc.  One man - who was black - was talking about how he was the first in his family to graduate college and how that was a big deal for him.  A girl I went to school with (but only peripherally knew) actually said 'Wow, that's a real credit to your race.'    I just sat there making that exact face...  I mean, I may not always say the right thing, but I know that THAT wasn't even in the same continent as 'the right thing'.

[Jermys]

You could definitely live in my badass commune, Moe!

[hisno1girl]

I've gotten "you sound like a white girl" my entire life.

What do people expect? For me to say SI SI SENORITA! ARRIBA! ARRIBA! ANDALE! like Speedy Fucking Gonzalez, is my best guess.

[Jalapeñomel]

Dec 9, 2013 20:09:54 GMT -5 Jermys said:

I laugh my ass off when someone says they don't see color. Yes you do, dumbass! Saying you don't see color is so fucking offensive and smacks of white liberal guilt. Puh-leeze.

Some of those remind me why I'm saving to buy an island in the tropics.

I think we've talked about this before, because someone on here said that they were "color blind."