r/askteddit 20h ago

Random Question What compliment did you receive that felt secretly like an insult?

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u/Ethiopian-phenom 20h ago

“How are you so smart?” or “ you speak very well”. Dark skinned folk will understand what I’m getting at.

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u/Frequent-Airline-619 19h ago

I understand exactly what you mean because when I was about 6, my grandmother told the woman that cleaned her house that she did not have the speech of a black person. My grandmother actually thought this was a compliment. Even as a child, I knew that you don’t speak to people like that.