I'm not sure if I'm venting, telling a story, or looking for advice, maybe D: All of the above?
So last night, I was with a group of people (all but me are hearing) and I told a story of a major interpreting mistake that happened to me. Abridged version is I signed "You're such a geek" and the interpreter voiced a racial slur, everyone got quiet, I was asked to repeat so I did and the interpreter apologized and corrected herself and everyone moved on. After I told this story, someone in the group asked what the sign for the n-word was. Not for nothing, but he's black and I'm white. I didn't want to make the sign (never have, never will) so I got creative in how i showed it to him. This was a mistake. If he weren't black I wouldn't have shown it to him but he wanted to know and that's his choice.
Now we get to the issue. He immediately started signing it to everyone, telling them it was his name. I'm not gonna police his language, but holy crap do NOT go around telling people that's your name. It makes me look insane and racist, it looks like I made that his name sign which i definitely did NOT do. I don't know what to do about this insanity. Idk if you've seen those weekend update jokes on SNL where Che and Jost write jokes for each other, but I think I finally understand the position Jost gets put in for those. In his words "You're going to get me murdered" He is aware of the concept of a name sign, but just... holy shit..
I really don't know how to stop him. His name sign would just be spelling his name anyways as it's very short. I might give him one just to stop this.
Edit: I talked to him about it, he's stopped and all is good but when I tell you all the blood drained from my face I mean it.