What sounds offensive but actually isn’t?

"Black people tend to be better at basketball"

No one on earth would disagree that basketball is a sport that favors taller athletes and black people are statistically taller than most other races. Not only that, but I learned in a class on evolution that humans who's genes come from closer to the equator have longer limbs and smaller torsos because that body type is easier to cool. Long limbs help with basketball too. If you can't believe this just look at the ethnic makeup in the NBA, it favors black people.

And what I don't get more than anything, IT'S A FUCKING COMPLIMENT. If someone said that folks like me tend to be better at something, true or not, I'd be like thanks bro. I wish I was genetically predisposed to have an advantage at basketball, it's a fun ass game. Obviously I don't go around saying this to people, but it's a long closeted opinion of mine

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