Everyday racial confusion among coworkers lacks the uncanny quality of doppelgangers

Evidence

Or think of all of the people who have to contend with the daily wince of having a “work twin”—another person of color from a vaguely similar ethnic background (or a wholly dissimilar one) with whom they are constantly confused by their colleagues. To state the obvious: these are not doppelgangers. There are no uncanny similarities between the people involved—it’s just the way race continues to break so many of our brains. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 918