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Originally Posted by alkytrio666
The point was that it was completely irrelevant.
It would be like me saying: I went to the theater and bought a ticket for a movie. The ticket-seller was white. Then I watched the movie, and I really liked it.
It was a pointless addition of a detail, that was all I was saying.
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I think that you are seeing a bit too much in this statement. Most people say things like these without even noticing them, and it has a lot more to do with social mechanisms than racism. Most human beings have a sense of belonging to one "social group", and in situations involving people from another "group", they'll usually mention that other group just to mark the difference and convey information to listeners.
Take the opposite situation in a movie theater, and you'll get 99 % of the time black people telling their friends "man, these white dudes were soooo annoying!". People of average built would also mention "these annoying fat guys", whereas gays might talk about "these loud-mouthed straight guys and their girlfriends" (and vice-versa of course). The same even goes for fashion styles, if the guys annoying you at the movie theater are metalheads, or jocks, or goths, etc., and you're not, you WILL mention that fact nearly everytime, and the doesn't mean that you hate metalheads, jocks or goths.