Was the ‘race card’ pulled??

Clearly not a race thing… these people are disgusting.

also Lots of people record things now to get a social media reaction

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Don't even give it another thought @Glittercloud17 The family clearly have no manners, which isn't your problem. Race is totally irrelevant, here.

The people minimising racism in this scenario, were the queue jumping family.

Race card absolutely does exist, I know some people who unashamendly tell others that they use their colour often to guilt trip others into allowing them to jump queue places.

Had someone at an interview once say that we needed to hire her because it would look good for our online photos to have someone of her race there.

One of DHs friends got in a disagreement in a MacD counter, within seconds he was accused of being a racist by someone in the queue because of the colour of the person behind the counter, his Asian wife then showed up and it all went very quiet and MacDs replaced his order with a fresh one.

Nothing wrong with saying race card to describe cheeky fuckery like this. She isn’t saying actual racism is a game. Shes calling out arseholes.

There are awful people of every race. Some people are just dying to see persecution and oppression even where none exists, so they have an excuse for underachieving in life.

A friend of mine got into an argument with two black women over an order at McDonald's recently. It didn't help that he might just be the whitest man alive, but it took them about 30 seconds before they started shrieking 'racist' at him.

It got quite pretty quickly when, a few moments later, his Jamaican wife and two mixed race kids came running over to see wha'gwan 😅

Obviously only ever met one person then and you probably go that wrong too.

I’ve never met someone who actually uses the phrase ‘the race card’ who was not, in fact, a racist.

Did she actually say anything about race or was she just implying you're rude and entitled? (In her opinion)

Sounds as those she was talking about race.

Tbh I’ve never totally understood the expression “pulling the race card”! As in, who is supposed to be pulling it in a given situation, but it sounds like it’s an offensive expression so I won’t bother learning it.

They are just twats who didn’t like being called out on their queue jumping so tried to style it out.

Correct. As well as ‘sexism card’, ‘homophobia card’, etc. It’s a turn of phrase, not a suggestion that discrimination is a game. Nothing wrong with the phrase imo, it’s widely understood.

It's possible that this was just a family of opportunists, also possible that they honestly thought you were wrong. I had an encounter a few months ago queueing up to pay in a charity shop. A woman came up behind me and said I had cut in front of her in the queue. I questioned this, very politely, and it turned out that she HAD been in the queue before me but had stepped out to look at something on a nearby rack. She explained that because she was on her own she didn't have anyone to hold her place, and because she was the last one in the queue when she stepped away, she couldn't ask the person behind her to hold her place.

She definitely felt that I was in the wrong, and (1) should not have got into the queue before she came back and rejoined it and (2) should have just let her go in front of me without questioning. This isn't how queueing works but even if it were, I hadn't been present when she stepped away so I had no idea that she had previously been in the queue. Anyway, I am pretty positive that she genuinely BELIEVED that she was correct and I was wrong (and rude).

In the case of the airport family, there could be something you didn't notice that made them think you treated them poorly. There may have been something in your tone of voice or the exact words you used when you accused the niece of pushing in that caused them to think that you felt superior to them. They may not have liked that you assumed ill intentions on the part of the niece rather than keeping things neutral. Race could be what they perceived as the reason for your alleged mistreatment of them and so could a number of other things but as they didn't say so I wouldn't assume that. And regardless, they definitely didn't accuse you of racism, so even if you had a less loaded equivalent of "playing the race card", it doesn't apply here.

I think your assuming they were on about ‘race’ you don’t know why conversations they were having beforehand, they could of been speaking about snobs, rich people, stuck up people absolutely anything (I’m not saying you are any of these things) but you can’t assume they said those things because you are white!

Super massive cringe about their behaviour and lm mixed race

There is no race card. YABVU to use this phrase and it makes me automatically think that you are in the wrong/have some form of unconscious or conscious bias because only a certain type of person uses this phrase. There are assholes in all the different demographics which exist. 🙄

They sound awful!!

You did nothing wrong OP and I hope you’re ok as that incident would have shaken me as well.

I'd say it's very likely she was talking about race.

But I'd also say this is a very unusual situation as I don't know any non white parents who would think it was acceptable for their child to jump a queue, and then give them a talk about their race being the reason someone rightly protested.

That and the violent shove wasn't because they were of a different race, it was because they were complete dick heads.

I wouldn't pay it any more mind.

The appropriate analogy here would be a woman claiming sexism when she was being justifiably pulled up for being in the wrong.

It happens. Twats exist in every group and sometimes pull whatever 'card' they can to excuse poor behaviour and claim victimhood.

Here's an example of a woman doing just that: BBC News - IT worker sues her boss believing 'xx' in email were kisses - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-65632912?app-referrer=deep-link

Doesn't mean discrimination doesn't exist but cheeky fuckers also do.

I have no idea what it meant, no. I'd have asked/been very interested in their reasoning.
They were real out of order though and you have brilliant restraint.

What makes you think it was about race?

This is rather goady OP, they didnt mention race but you jumped to that conclusion apparently. The assumptions are all yours so you might as well own it.