To be hurt that I was called racist over trivial parking incident?

Do better 🤣 Basically OP, just don’t exist

Nobody uses racism for no reason. If he said you were racist then you obviously commited some sort of microagrression that you weren't consciously aware of. My advice would be to have a bit of introspection and ask yourself what you would do next time in order to not make someone feel like they are being racially attacked over a normal disagreement.

Basically, do better.

@Theunamedcat I find it surprising in a post with 'racist' in the title, the OP hasn't supplied additional information about race.

She hasn't made the post about 'being called a silly cow' over a trivial parking incidence - it's specific to race. If you've not experienced racism before, you won't know what might trigger someone to call other people racist (rightly or wrongly).

Your the one demanding to know what colour they are and hinting they wouldn't know what racism looks like

Where did I state it was racist?

Have you never come across someone trying to keep a parking spot before? I wouldn’t dwell on it!

I KNOW! Shocking, isn’t it? Don’t worry, though- there’s always someone to explain why it wasn’t racist…..

You cant save spots thats not how a carpark works

No, his sister went into the space reserved for disabled parking. OP parked next to it.

His sister signalled to pull into the contested spot even though you had already parked your car there and got out of the car? I'm not sure why you challenged him for NOT stopping her when she was obviously going to have to stop on her own since there was nowhere for her to park. You're never going to know why, specifically, he called you racist since you didn't ask him, so I guess stop worrying about it if you don't think it was an accurate assessment.

A Deliveroo rider called me a racist a few years ago when I asked him to move his bike, after he parked his moped literally leaning up against my car on the hash lines next to the disabled space we were in meaning I couldn’t get the door open to lift my disabled DC back in the car.

I took great pleasure in merrily swinging the car door open with a cheerful “oopsie!” as his bike went over….

Yeah it’s a bit like the misogynists who rush out to say that one woman making false claims about rape or sexual harassment allegations is why others don’t get believed.

When I was younger I was called a racist by rejecting a man of another race 😂 I didn’t give it another thought nor did I change how I felt about racism.

My (white Welsh) childhood best friend was called racist by a (white) Greek man once for something absurd. We were baffled but just laughed it off and yes she still took actual racism seriously.

And yeah I must say it’s remarkable how some people are always being called racist left right and centre, but definitely aren’t actually and even have brown friends lol

I agree and also what’s the big issue with him saving the spot? 🤷‍♀️I don’t expect he was there very long and if OP wasn’t going to park there herself it sounds like he didn’t really block anyone from using it. Why roll your eyes at them? @KatieHouse

And I feel on his part he was rude to tell you not to park in the disabled spot though as he has no evidence you were going to and plus you didn’t.

Nonsense.

Racism is extremely serious. There’s no reason to take it less seriously because one random said something odd. You surely aren’t suggesting you no longer think racism is serious after reading the OP?

As usual these posts just call to the people who are apparently being called racist every time they leave their home and who like to harp on the ‘you can’t say anything anymore’ theme. They are having a frankly extraordinary experience of life.

A reformer making racist remarks?I don’t believe it. 😆

Yanbu if there was genuinely no further interaction than stated

She's put in quote marks the words she actually said. The words "you weirdo" are not in quote marks.

This is just basic English grammar.

She didn’t. Using strikethrough denotes what she was thinking… not saying @QPZM

TBH yes you are a bit unreasonable to be so upset about it. It's used so frequently now that it doesn't mean anything, it's nothing like as shocking as it might have been 20 years ago.

But it's ok to be unreasonable sometimes.

They parked NEXT to a disabled parking space how is that racist?

Crazy arse people go around saying crazy shit all day and unfortunately you will encounter them. It's a waste of time getting hurt about it.

YANBU.

He was your basic common twat, same as those people that voted YABU.

See above.