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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
In a way, yes, since him being native is literally not relevant to the intent of your story. Unless your story is about natives, which would then make it irrelevant to include in an LRT thread. Your story was about feeling threatened on public transit.
Notice how the prime details you give are ones intended to make him sound more threatening?
"Has 3 inches on me"
"40 pounds heavier"
"Drunk"
"Surrounded by 5 of his friends"
Oh, and "Native"
One of these things is not like the other. Is it a coincidence? No. It's not unique to you though, lots of people do it (there are multiple posts here). It's just something to be mindful of and stop doing. Just ask yourself how many times you tell a story about someone white and specifically make sure to include that detail.
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I took it as being a thread about racism on the LRT not scary people on the LRT. So the native part makes total sense to me. I was going to tell about the time two crack heads scared the bejeezus out of me with a knife on a c-train platform downtown. But it seemed kind of irrelevant because they were white and I'm white. And also cause I'm a freakin ninja. So I'll save that one for the general LRT freak out thread thread.