Jerry Cotton posted:

You are really loving stupid.

poo poo that didn't happen: what you posted about.

CannedMacabre posted:

https://www.facebook.com/DavidAvocadoWolfe/videos/10153741024206512

Non Serviam posted:

I didn't defend this guy, I said that you, or whatever poster it was, was grasping at straws trying to come up with some racism to get angry about.
Honestly, it's more concerning for me that any stories about criminal hobos make you think of black people. I'm sure they appreciate your desire to carry the white man's burden.

MizPiz posted:

Why is everyone focusing on the zombie part when urban has probably been the longest used dog whistle for black people?

Captain Monkey posted:

Because they were having enough trouble with the completely out of place, and thus much more obvious, racist code word 'zombie'. Since the original post also had the word 'rural' in it, that would've given them yet another potential stumbling block, and I was trying to make it as simple and easy to understand as possible.

Sadly that somehow still didn't work.

Zelder posted:

Like urban is the most ancient of dog whistles, right there alongside thug and eloquent

Zelder posted:

I am giving him the benefit of the doubt and assuming he's just a hapless foreigner who doesn't understand the nightmare world that American racial politics occupy...


...and probably every country, now that I think about it.

Non Serviam posted:

"the word was so out of place that it was obviously racist"
A Something Awful poster.

Captain Monkey posted:

Because they were having enough trouble with the completely out of place, and thus much more obvious, racist code word 'zombie'.

Zelder posted:

I am giving him the benefit of the doubt and assuming he's just a hapless foreigner who doesn't understand the nightmare world that American racial politics occupy...


...and probably every country, now that I think about it.

a hero on /r/pettyrevenge posted:

I was standing in the ice cream aisle holding a six pack of beer and one of cider, and a couple bags of chips, trying to decide if I wanted to bring ice cream sandwiches or maybe some jerky for game night. I had just gotten off from my other job so I was wearing black slacks, a white dress shirt and a black tie, with a very obvious pin showing where I worked.

I hear a slightly condescending “Excuuuse me.” from the side of me. Looking over I see a slightly overweight middle aged woman with one of those ‘I’d like to speak to your manager haircuts’.

I step back a few steps to let her pass and go back to my internal debate. After a few seconds she hasn’t moved and I hear the most obnoxious, entitled, “HELLLOOOOOOOOO, Earth to jackass!!!”

I look at her and she says with extreme impatience dripping with venom, “The lines are way too loving long, you need to ring me up, I know you’ve got a free register in the back somewhere. I have things to do, ring me up NOW!”

I don’t work here, but you know what, I worked retail technical support at the time and I had a really lovely day, dealing with people exactly like her… “Oh, I’m so SO sorry ma'am, I thought you were just trying to get by.” Reaches into cabinet and grabs a thing of mint skinny cow ice cream sandwiches(Not on a diet, but those things are drat good.)

Let me just get these ice cream sandwiches to the disabled lady up front waiting for me and I’ll ring up you up over there in the home & decor section.“ Points to farthest corner of the store where no reps go and no registers are "Again I’m so sorry, I will even hand these return items off to another associate to put away and I will be RIGHT over!”

“Well, fine. Please be quick, I have poo poo to do you know.” and she walks away.

I took my items up front to check out, waited all of 3 minutes in line and then went on my merry way. It’s amazing that some people just assume a random bystander is the person that can help them and then treats them like poo poo without even knowing who they are. gently caress that lady and people like her.

MizPiz posted:

The dirty little secret about Europeans is that they're just as and sometimes even more racist than Americans, it's just that they don't have to deal with the fallout of having racially-based slave economy as the foundation of their nation.

Sisal Two-Step posted:

hogmartin posted:

Kind of plausible? When you work at CompUSA in high school and swing by Meijer after work, about once a week someone's going to see red polo shirt and khakis and ask you where something is. I always just said "I don't work here", though.

Leavemywife posted:

But we wear blue shirts now!

Zelder posted:

Like urban is the most ancient of dog whistles, right there alongside thug and eloquent

Bertrand Hustle posted:

Have these "you liberals see racism everywhere" types considered the possibility that racism actually is everywhere

Bertrand Hustle posted:

Have these "you liberals see racism everywhere" types considered the possibility that racism actually is everywhere

Non Serviam posted:

I'm not from the US, no. However, in the text "urban" appeared as opposed to "rural." he didn't say "against urban youth" or "urban thugs." you can't just see the word "urban" and immediately assume it's racially loaded. As for zombie, even other posters expressed their puzzling about that one; devoid of context, we can't just assets every bad word is code for "black."

There's this whole theory about me being racist European, and how I say "liberals are racists," so it's hard for me to honestly take the fun away from them. However, I was born in South America, and I didn't say "liberals are racists" (I did imply that there's a constant condescension on the part of pasty white assholes trying to defend us poor minorities).

I don't remember where the red text came from, but I'm guessing it was me telling another pasty white SA user to shove his white man's burden up his rear end and stop seeing racism everywhere.

I hope that helps.

Non Serviam posted:

I'm not from the US, no. However, in the text "urban" appeared as opposed to "rural." he didn't say "against urban youth" or "urban thugs." you can't just see the word "urban" and immediately assume it's racially loaded. As for zombie, even other posters expressed their puzzling about that one; devoid of context, we can't just assets every bad word is code for "black."

There's this whole theory about me being racist European, and how I say "liberals are racists," so it's hard for me to honestly take the fun away from them. However, I was born in South America, and I didn't say "liberals are racists" (I did imply that there's a constant condescension on the part of pasty white assholes trying to defend us poor minorities).

I don't remember where the red text came from, but I'm guessing it was me telling another pasty white SA user to shove his white man's burden up his rear end and stop seeing racism everywhere.

I hope that helps.

hogmartin posted:

Kind of plausible? When you work at CompUSA in high school and swing by Meijer after work, about once a week someone's going to see red polo shirt and khakis and ask you where something is. I always just said "I don't work here", though.

Bertrand Hustle posted:

Have these "you liberals see racism everywhere" types considered the possibility that racism actually is everywhere

hyperhazard posted:

What launches it into stdh is the cartoonishly evil customer

chitoryu12 posted:

The gently caress is a Humphrey?

Non Serviam posted:

I'm not from the US, no. However, in the text "urban" appeared as opposed to "rural." he didn't say "against urban youth" or "urban thugs." you can't just see the word "urban" and immediately assume it's racially loaded. As for zombie, even other posters expressed their puzzling about that one; devoid of context, we can't just assets every bad word is code for "black."

There's this whole theory about me being racist European, and how I say "liberals are racists," so it's hard for me to honestly take the fun away from them. However, I was born in South America, and I didn't say "liberals are racists" (I did imply that there's a constant condescension on the part of pasty white assholes trying to defend us poor minorities).

I don't remember where the red text came from, but I'm guessing it was me telling another pasty white SA user to shove his white man's burden up his rear end and stop seeing racism everywhere.

I hope that helps.

Zelder posted:

Buddy one of these days I'm going to take you on a fishing trip,just you and me, and I'm going to explain what a dog whistle is to you, and you're going to get woke as gently caress. It'll be very exciting for you.


And I'm black so you can trust that this info bomb will be coming straight from the source.

quote:

(A group of passengers whose flight has been delayed, causing them to miss connections, is waiting for a ticket agent to reschedule them to their destinations. Passenger #1 is a middle aged woman who has been complaining and berating the ticket agent.)

Passenger #1: “I can’t believe you can’t get me on an earlier flight! I have been traveling since ten this morning trying to get home to see my family! Do you have any idea how hard this is for me?!”

Passenger #2: *a teenage girl who up till now has been waiting quietly* “Lady, I don’t want to hear any more of your complaining. I’ve been traveling since five this morning Paris time, and I’m too tired to figure out the time difference. My luggage was lost at O’Hare, and I haven’t seen my family in a month. Now, I may be just a teenager, but even I know that this is going to go a lot faster for everyone if you just let the nice lady behind the counter do her job!”

Passenger #1: *shuts up*

bringmyfishback posted:

STDH: Racism debate in the thread was super appropriate and interesting!

CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:

Basically.

A few places I've worked at have the policy that you have to change out of your uniform or cover up all logos etc when you're off your shift, because it's not infrequent for people to come off an eight-hour shift, go to Woolies to get groceries, be accosted by another customer asking where you keep the tinned beans, snap at them because you don't loving work here and this should be obvious - and then your manager gets an angry phone call from that customer telling them how rude their Coffee Club employee was to them, off shift and in Woolies.

Darth Windu posted:

Yeah I'm a good person too. Let's make sure everyone knows how not racist we are