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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Sort of on a related note, I was at a Vancouver club last summer where a black person was trying to pick a fight with one of my white friends. My friend wanted nothing to do with him and basically told him where to go. As we were walking away, the black guy started yelling; "That guy just called me a n*****!!"... when in fact, nothing like that was said. My friend is one of the most non-racist guys you would ever meet. Needless to say, this caused a big crowd of people to come over advocating killing my friend. Fortunately, the police were called and we were able to leave.
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Happens all the time. My mother works at a call centre for a cell phone company (fixes problems with service, billing errors, etc). She is a manager, so if someone junior on the floor has an agressive customer, they put their hands up and hand the call over to a manager. She told a customer that he didn't qualify for a certain discount because he hadn't been a client long enough. He told her "You racist *******s. If I was white, you'd be giving me this discount". She, politely as she could, told the customer that they were not on a videophone.
I work with a number of black people and they are all of the same opinion. Jackasses like this take away from legitimate claims of racism. Same as women that claim abuse to get back at a cheating husband. Same as women that claim harassment when they don't get the promotion they wanted. Same as a gay man who yells discrimination because he didn't get a job he wasn't qualified for. There are people out there that yell victim even when they clearly are not, and it hurts the claims of the people who truely are victimized by abuse, harassment or discrimination.