Comments on: If You Refrain from Talking about Race, People Might Think You’re Racist

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By: But, what are you doing here? | lilylovail

But, what are you doing here? | lilylovail — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:46:49 +0000

[…] Not just what are you doing now, (don’t even get me started on now/just now/ now now) but what have you done? How do I speak of my experience, let alone write about my experience here? As a white, middle class American woman, how do I speak about race? Here I have become comfortable describing people as “black/white/colored” when months ago, I would have gone out of my way to describe a black person with any adjectives or characteristics other than black… “um, so that tall man in the corner… you know, the one with the darker hair and um dark skin”. Does that make me insensitive? Politically incorrect? Or maybe that dreaded word racist? (http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/12/13/if-you-refrain-from-talking-about-race-people-might-…) […]

By: arielle.grace

arielle.grace — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 00:08:00 +0000

It is never explicitly stated that the volunteers in question were white. I got so confused hearing about the people being “even less likely when the other volunteer was African American”, simply because my default isn’t that people are white. 43% of the white people didn’t mention race? What was the rate for people who were of color? So confusing.

By: Benjamin Geer

Benjamin Geer — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 19:31:00 +0000

“Talking about skin colour” ≠ “talking about race”.

By: Gunnvor Valkyrie

Gunnvor Valkyrie — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 22:37:00 +0000

Agree mostly with Kerry’s comment. People are taught bringing up race is offensive. They are obvs trying their best to be PC especially around researchers.

By: Oelsen

Oelsen — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 22:35:00 +0000

Just for the record (look at the date, casual archive worker): This study is complete horse-dung. I write as a west-european observer and the only two guys that are “black” or African in any constructible way are the man in the lower left corner and the two women in the lower middle and even the right one there wouldn’t go through with African around here. The older guy and the other two darker tones are Latinos, Brazilians, North-Africans, heck, even Malay or Indonesian is possible.
THIS is borderline third reich racism, calling anything not bleached by North European genes black. wtf, harvard, no wonder.

By: Kery Jema

Kery Jema — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 04:18:00 +0000

no, we don’t mention color because it’s been drilled into us that
differentiating people by color is rude and that we’re supposed to be
colorblind because that is what is PC, and incidentally, correct. people
should be judged on their abilities/character/actions, but not
something as insignificant as the color of their skin, or for that matter, their sex.

and the
fact that you automatically think it’s because there’s something wrong
with being black says a lot more about you and how you feel about black
people, than what others are actually thinking.

By: mmmmtofu

mmmmtofu — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 03:23:00 +0000

I won’t pretend to know what people of colour feel in regards to this relation, but would like to call out the fact that you are sitting on your privileged soapbox here. White people came along and took away everything it meant to be a person of colour, degrading them and telling them they were subhuman. Why should people of colour now be told that when they are becoming proud of their colour and their “heritage” that “colour doesn’t matter!!! it’s all irrational!!!!”. I guess that works for you, but that line of thought makes me very uncomfortable.

By: The Paradox Of Appearing Colorblind | The Penn Ave Post

The Paradox Of Appearing Colorblind | The Penn Ave Post — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:45:47 +0000

[…] at 8:45 on December 17, 2013 by Andrew Sullivan In the above video, professor Michael Norton describes a game designed to evaluate people’s openness when talking about race. The game is similar to […]

By: liza

liza — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 06:28:00 +0000

shortest game of guess who

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VOFzX_RvXM

By: Tilly

Tilly — Sun, 15 Dec 2013 20:39:00 +0000

First we scare people into thinking we will accuse them of being racist, then we say the way they try to avoid sounding racist is racist. I think this says more about the sociologists than the people interviewed.

By: Japaniard

Japaniard — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 19:13:00 +0000

You think he has black blood in him? As in, you think he has ancestors who came from Africa? I don’t see it, he just looks hispanic.

You don’t need African blood to have a darker complexion, and people don’t call Mexicans black just because they happen to be dark like this http://media.canada.com/ff204c0a-f375-4bc5-91b0-f6cc14acdaa1/18mexicans3.jpg

By: Charles T

Charles T — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 16:11:00 +0000

Maybe you are the only one who would never refer to him as “Black.” Where I’m from the “one-drop-of-black-blood” rule applies: He’s black.

By: WellYesYouMay

WellYesYouMay — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 14:47:00 +0000

Both of the non-white men in the top row look racially ambiguous to me. Might be African American, might be Hispanic, might be Middle Eastern, or perhaps a mix.