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Originally Posted by you&me
Counting can be difficult, so you go ahead and give it another try when you're ready.
The point is, why should there even be a response to someone using a racial descriptor in such a manner? The fact that there was a response - and it happens all the time - would reasonably give pause to someone to use race as a simple way to describe someone, like the situation Cappy mentioned.
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There was one post.
What followed was a bunch of posts performing some meta analysis of whether mentioning race was necessary or whether it was good or bad (all of which outright stating OP wasn’t bad). One single post that suggested the OP MIGHT have done it for a negative reason, and you’re calling that the “get-out-the-pitchforks response”?
If you think that’s pitchforks, it’s time for you to toughen up. Though based on the “counting is hard” comment, maybe that’ll come with puberty.
Over-reacting to the mention of a person’s race is not better intellectually than over-reacting to even the lightest criticism and classifying it as “gathering the pitchforks.” It’s the same thing you see all the time when people share something a few others disagree with and they pretend they’re being “attacked” by “the mob.” It’s kind of pathetic.