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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So?[/quote]

I wonder if stories like this, where the suggestion of racism is maybe plausible, but factually is certainly not an active act of racism, are playing in favor of the Rs going in to the midterms.  They just don’t seem that concerned.[/quote]

We're not.  Because normal, moderate, *rational* people see this as a common mistake - people confuse people all the time, regardless of race.  I'm white and was constantly confused with another girl in college.  I know a few women who, to me, look exactly alike and I can never remember their names.  They're all white.  Does this make me a racist, or a normal person?  This type of nonsense is going to backfire bigly on the Dems, as it should.  LWNJ gotcha moments are not going to work in your favor.  [/quote]

I think if you are not a person of color you don’t really understand why this is pretty offensive.  It’s one thing if there is an isolated incident of confusion or you look like someone else, it’s another if something official like the governor (or probably a secretary or intern) confuses you on a professional level like this.

I have a friend who is Cuban and was trying to get in a sorority in college with another friend, who was also Cuban.  One of them was red headed and extremely fair, the other olive skinned with black hair.

People in the sorority confused them all the time.  My friend eventually got fed up and declined to join.

I have another POC friend who is a professor at a well regarded university and was confused with her Puerto Rican colleague all the time, despite looking totally different, one being maybe 7 inches taller than the other, and being different ethnicities altogether.

There is something really offensive about being mistaken for someone else *just because* you are both an “other,” not because you look alike or are otherwise alike.  It’s dehumanizing and makes you feel invisible.[/quote]

If these people looked nothing alike, why were they confused for one another?  Did they have similar last names?  [/quote]

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