[quote]Quasi-Tech wrote:
No, it really does matter. I can take a guy and have him walking down the street with a bloodied knife wearing a tank and sweat pants and you’ll think one thing, and have another guy walking out of the woods in camo hold the same damn knife and you’ll think something else.
The scenario does in fact affect how you react. You denying that shows that you’re only trying to prove a point.
His reaction on the phone is incredibly important. Is he talking normal, yelling and screaming profanity, etc… Would you want to interact with someone who was walking down the street screaming racial slurs, cuss words, etc. into their phone? If the answer is, yes you’d still talk to them, how about if they were talking poorly about black people, since that seems to be your pet peeve?
So you see, it is all about circumstance, and not just about the person. That’s why and how cases are built, thats why things can go from bad to worse, and why people trust their instincts above logic many times.
And if you want to be nit-picky, many times in order for someone to be a relative they are also of the same nationality. So in my case, I don’t think there is a single Black family on my street, Asian yes, but not Black. Hence why my assumption would have been, “new neighbor walking for exercise”, assuming there weren’t some other things to set off my Spidey-senses.
My reference to Polish/Italian was the fact that they don’t get along. Hey, both white and they still are at edge with each other - generally speaking. You don’t find Polish people in Italian clubs and vice versa, and I’m talking where the old men go. It has nothing to do with skin color, like minded people stay together. Hell, where I grew up there were three Churches in my town, a Polish one, an Italian one, and I forget the third, I think it was Eastern European. All the people were American, spoke English fine, but they had their own traditions, and wanted a priest that understood them. The Polish Church even treated an Italian priest not so kindly, even though he was from the same diocese, people are funny like that.
Fine, plenty of people walk down my street at dusk, I’ve done it a few times. Takes me back to my original question… why would someone/anyone I don’t recognize be walking down my street? I don’t like in the city. Again, its about setting.
Whether one is outside or inside does matter. If I’m inside and he is outside, I probably won’t see him. I have a door between he and I, so unless he comes to my door, I’m not going to bother with him, his business is his own. If I’m outside, there’s a chance if he wants interaction he may interact or say something to me, like, “hi.” If I’m inside, I doubt he’ll be walking down the street yelling hello to every house he passes.
Why is this such a difficult concept? Do you react the same in every situation just because of the person, or do you treat each situation differently depending on what is going on around you?
Example - do you yell and scream when talking to people in your home, or do you just do that at a sports bar where its loud and you have to raise your voice to be heard? Do you share a beer with a complete stranger walking down the street for the sake of conversation, or do you just buy the guy sitting next to you a beer because you’ve been chatting for 15 minutes about whats on the TV? Do you react poorly to a white guy who is knocking on your door asking for help, the same way you’d react to a white guy knocking on your door with a ski mask on?
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What is with you guys and thinking that anyones gonna want to read all that?
Especially at this point in the thread, where things are fizzling out and everyones pretty much made up their minds.
Oh, and TLDR
