Quote:
Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
Take a 911 call for example where someone says a
"a random black man is wondering around my neighbourhood and might be breaking into houses."
vs
"a random man is wondering around my neighbourhood and might be breaking into houses."
You'll see lots of examples of how this gets treated differently, especially in the US.
And of course you'll almost never hear "a random white man is wondering around my neighbourhood and might be breaking into houses."
If the person it white, it's just left out.
|
Except you absolutely should mention if they're white because using ethnicity as an identifier to find someone committing a crime is kind of an important detail. The 911 operator would very likely ask the caller to identify the person at which point their ethnicity would be called out either way.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
Also I don't think the poster with the story meant much of it, so not attacking them particularly.
|
Neither do I, which was why I chimed in.