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Re:What it's like to be a white woman named LaKiesha by koolba on Saturday June 15, 2019 @01:09PM (#20190917)
> It happened when Bouraoui went to a busy restaurant one evening with a group of family and friends. As they waited outside for a table, a white waiter approached Bouraoui and asked for her name along with the number of people in her party.

> "Yasmina, party of six," she said.

> "I need something easier to pronounce," he said.

> She repeated her name but he didn't want to try to pronounce it. And then she was no longer there.

> "He looks at a 12-year-old in our party and he says, 'What's your name?' '' says Bouraoui, a manager with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. "Now he's just ignoring me."

That’s some terrible customer service. I’ve heard many people give aliases or single syllable westernized names by choice to simplify things, but having the employee you’re dealing with insist on it is particularly insulting.

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Re:What it's like to be a white woman named LaKiesha by the_narrator on Saturday June 15, 2019 @01:13PM (#20190944)
> That’s some terrible customer service.

If true, yes.

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Re:What it's like to be a white woman named LaKiesha by HeyLaughingBoy on Saturday June 15, 2019 @02:53PM (#20191470)
And your reason for doubting it would be?
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Re:What it's like to be a white woman named LaKiesha by the_narrator on Saturday June 15, 2019 @03:06PM (#20191546)
1. It doesn't sound realistic 2. It is an article trying to push the narrative that everything is racist 3. CNN
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Re:What it's like to be a white woman named LaKiesha by jjeaff on Saturday June 15, 2019 @04:10PM (#20191845)
Doesn't sound realistic? And is this coming from a position of experience? Where you have had to deal with prejudice and everything else that comes with being singled out as a minority?

Or is this coming from a upper middle class white male that has always lived amongst people who look and sound like they do?

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Re:What it's like to be a white woman named LaKiesha by deogeo on Saturday June 15, 2019 @04:53PM (#20192081)
Tangential, but most people live among people who look and sound like they do, it is in no way limited to whites, and even less to males.

If anything, it's less likely for whites - most Western countries have above-average diversity.

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Re:What it's like to be a white woman named LaKiesha by jjeaff on Saturday June 15, 2019 @09:32PM (#20193274)
Right, so most people probably don't experience much prejudice. And yet, some people belong to marginalized classes and do experience it.

So most people should probably not cast dispersions about the validity of the claims made by the marginalized.

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Re:What it's like to be a white woman named LaKiesha by the_narrator on Saturday June 15, 2019 @04:18PM (#20191891)
The assumptions you make are amusing, and some might even say racist.
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Re:What it's like to be a white woman named LaKiesha by jjeaff on Saturday June 15, 2019 @09:24PM (#20193251)
There were no assumptions. Only questions. But I will make the assumption now that you probably are of the majority class and have little experience how "realistic" an act of prejudice is.
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