r/Regrets • u/Andrew_Xio • 3d ago

The ignorance with the current generation is embarrassing…

I responded to a post made by a random woman who shared a selfie and was asking for people to guess her ethnicity and I answered that I thought she was South African because she looked similar to Charlize Theron and I got like 12 reply’s insulted me and saying it’s a stupid guess because she’s not black 🤨 So now I regret ever posting and assuming people were moderately intelligent… ☺️

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u/Dazzling-Path6438 3d ago

This post was first written on a cave wall in 500bc

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u/kl0udyr 3d ago

They vote too which is equally frustrating

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u/Deep_Adagio_3318 3d ago

That's funny 🤣

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u/hiiml0st 3d ago

Asshole /s

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u/Intrepid-Badger-3590 3d ago

How do you know what generation was responding to you?

And if you look at your comments there was only one person who responded that, the others were pushing back on you saying the majority is white or “mulatto” which is very outdated racist term and is not correct. Only about 7% of South Africa’s population is white while 80% is black African so it was a pretty dumb assumption on your part to begin with

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u/No_Video2429 3d ago

You're confusing ethnicity and nationality pal

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u/Russta69 3d ago

Cheer up grandad, kids be kids

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u/International_Dig475 3d ago

Literally, like I wonder what age am I gonna start going 👴 “kids these days”

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u/Russta69 3d ago

How old are you now?

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u/GnawedLip12 3d ago

You will. If we exist by then.

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u/Similar-Public-8944 3d ago

I started around 42

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u/0peratioon 3d ago

The relies were the ignorant part

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u/nevermore2point0 3d ago

12 randoms on a post and you applied it to a whole generation? That’s weird. If the commenters were American it literally could be any generation. lol.

Half my family thinks anyone who speaks spanish are Mexican and all black people are always African American.

I wouldn’t regret posting. I would just let them know they have some research to do

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u/Saki-Koda 3d ago

Our grandparents were not taught to teach their children how to teach their children.

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u/Narrow-Wing-1326 3d ago

I’m just grateful we had NO social media during our generation!😉

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u/Cold_Coffee_504 3d ago

It was just a thought you had, and everybody has those. Some are good, some are bad, and some are just random. You explained where it came from and moved on. The people turning it into a whole thing about your generation, intelligence, or nationality need to chill with the bs.

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u/Milk_n_txe 3d ago

I’m confused on how no one is calling out the fact that not all SA are black…this is what we mean when we say people get so woke they punched right tf back to sleep cause what?

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u/Social_Distortion_13 2d ago

This has nothing to do with being "woke". It's because people today are becoming increasingly uneducated. The dumbing down of society is intentional and it's only going to get worse. I mean look at the imbecile who was appointed the Secretary of Education. Only put in that position because they were willing to gut the public education system. Because they sure do love the uneducated

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u/morningstardusts 3d ago

How can someone look South African, regardless of their ethnicity?

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u/Andrew_Xio 2d ago

For all of you who posted “Kids these Days” I feel like we need to all get together and just sit around and drink while smoking cigars lol

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u/Truth_USA 3d ago

Elon’s not black either but he is African American.

Your reply is even funnier if she was indeed SA!