My friend considers anyone who greets me or speaks to me first, rather than to her when we are together in public, racist.
It doesn’t matter if it is someone I know and she doesn’t, or if the greeting is a casual, “Hi, you, and companion-who-I-don’t know.”
The hypersensitivity is overwhelmingly confusing.
It’s like mentioning someone’s color. If I don’t mention what color someone was in passing, “They are a nice middle-aged couple who comes here occasionally,” she asks why I don’t mention their race.
If I do say, “They are a nice middle-aged black couple,” she asks why I mentioned their race because I wouldn’t note it if they were white, would I?
You can’t figure out where the lines are because the lines get moved constantly.
It is getting to the point of avoidance.
GETTING to the point of avoidance? I would have given that “friend” a good lecture awhile ago. She would then, however, assume that you’re a racist for telling her how warped she is in her thinking.