"So much light in him!"

[Anonymous]

This is a normal statement someone would make about a lively energetic looking child. He probably saw a big smile and bright eyes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m betting the person who reported him isn’t full of light. Probably got those flat, shark eyes.

Every person fired is a step up the ladder.

[Anonymous]

Keep an eye out for reportable dlip ups from the tattletale.

"Work to rule" with the tattletale. Don't have any social conversations.

[Anonymous]

Now if he makes a comment about a neighborhood being “dark” you may question your original take on this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m betting the person who reported him isn’t full of light. Probably got those flat, shark eyes.

Every person fired is a step up the ladder.

Except they probably just made themselves a social pariah at work. Something similar happened at an old work place and everyone pretty much ostracized the accuser. No one wanted to be associated with them or risk being accused by them. Everything was kept as minimally professional as possible. They ended up quitting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tread carefully. If this 50 year old is capable of making such a comment in this day and age, without a thought for the optics, he might make other such comments, and you will end up looking bad if you defend him too strenuously.

If questioned, you can just say the truth: that you believe he did not mean anything of a racist nature.

Sorry for inserting autism into the conversation, but my husband and son are on the spectrum. I've had to talk to both several times to make sure they understand the import of certain remarks. Some people just don't have great socio-emotional sensitivity and need explicit instruction in certain explosive areas of language.

There was nothing wrong with the comment. There is something wrong with the person who hears it as racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now if he makes a comment about a neighborhood being “dark” you may question your original take on this.

My neighborhood was dark. They replaced the sodium lamps with LEDs. It's much whiter now.

Report me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d quit before I continued working with someone reporting a kind comment as racist. What a miserable POS human, what a terrible life they must have! Disgusting!

Agreed!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I read your title that’s what I thought - so much life in him. I can’t believe anyone took it as a racist comment

Same

Same. Life/spark. And I'm what some people might call "woke."

[Anonymous]

It would be a weird wording for a comment about an unexpectedly light completion, though I have heard worse.

My guess is that it is not a racist comment. Just an awkwardly phrased one.

As a mixed-race, but obviously part-Black mom of kids who have a range of phenotypes, I don’t think it is racist simply to remark on someone’s skin color. What makes it racist is when you value/devalue someone based on their skin color or make assumptions about their abilities or behavior because they have a particular skin tone.

[Anonymous]

The secret police are snatching people off the street based on their skin color; meanwhile, office workers are falling all over themselves to read racism into every comment made at work.

[Anonymous]

I don't think it's about skin color at all.
It's about life energy, spiritual light. Prana. Chi.
The tattletale is wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The secret police are snatching people off the street based on their skin color; meanwhile, office workers are falling all over themselves to read racism into every comment made at work.

Exactly. Its like the want to right the wrongs of ICE by calling out people as often as possible rather than focusing on their actual concern because that would be actual work to undergo.

[Anonymous]

People have moved so far left that they fallen off a cliff. That comment is not racist. As soon as I read your title before opening it, I knew what he meant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now if he makes a comment about a neighborhood being “dark” you may question your original take on this.

Something I think about to this day is telling someone that I had just met that I didn’t like walking around a certain area of town at night because it was pretty dark—and I literally meant there were few street lights. I later found out what that term also meant and I still wonder if this person I’ll never see again thinks I’m a racist.