I don't know, as a white person with kids in daycare, I feel more bad for minorities that have to put up with this shit no matter what sort of secondary effects it may cause to me.
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Day Care Gets Racist Letter Demanding They Fire Black Employee For Being Too Dark
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I don't know, as a white person with kids in daycare, I feel more bad for minorities that have to put up with this shit no matter what sort of secondary effects it may cause to me.
the general tone of the letter, not the content. You know what the poster meant
I mean it sounds like the way a "busybody" Mother might speak. I don't think lighthearted is an apt description for the tone. Some people just come across that way especially if they feel they are superior or in a superior position, in this case, a parent paying the bills. My Sister who is a teacher deals with that kind of attitude from parents and even fellow teachers all of the time. Fake kindness but their words are meant to be demeaning.
plagiarize
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I'm sure they'll fucking cope.
Empathy is so broken that people always default to empathizing with the people with the same skin colour.
plagiarize
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Many people who believe this vile shit don't think it's a big deal. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. They think racist behavior is acceptable and normal. That tone is part of what makes me believe it might be entirely as face value suggests.
Many people think unless you are animated and angrily spitting hate to the person's face that you aren't a racist. Well that's not how it works at all.
Nightwing123
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Whoever wrote that letter is a disgusting human being.
elrechazado
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Feelings are not a finite resource. Where did that poster say that's all they cared about?
Yeah, first thing I thought of is how many minority's don't even get to have a goddamn choice about what daycare their child goes to, who am I to feel inconvenienced while another persons actual livelihood is being attacked
Rumblebones
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Yeah you certainly wouldn't want to be accused of being a racist.
That's worse than being the actual victim of racism.
They didn't, fair enough. But I will say that if it's the only point you have made in a thread especially of this nature, are we on a forum not to take it at face value that it's what you care the most about? For instance your first comment was "it seems fake". How am I not supposed to think that you are then dismissing what has happened and what the woman must be going through when you didn't comment on any of that?
I guess my point is, people can only go by what it is you type on a forum, not read your mind. And I've long since stopped just assuming the best intentions of people.
Dubbedinenglish
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Yup. How many parents dont like the look of a daycare staff or other children and decide to go to another one. How many daycares know this and specifically discriminate against black peoples for employment or tell them they are full. The only difference is this person wrote a letter.
Well, even I thought about what the poster said before they posted it but I didn't deem it worthy of posting about how it would affect me as a white parent due to the much larger issue at play here. Inconveniencing my white personhood is hardly what we should be concerned about so its not really worth posting.
Jaguar Victory
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Imagine if you're a parent that was planning on taking your kid out of the daycare and then this shit happens. Can't pull them out now; you don't want to get blamed for this shit. People are assholes. Poor girl. Glad they're rallying around her.
Rumblebones
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If your primary concern is how some people may look in the light of a racism over the actual victim of racism, that's telling insofar as your priorities and empathy.
the-pi-guy
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"McDonalds is always hiring her kind"
WTF!
"Make your daycare great again".
Well that's particularly on the nose...
WTF!
"Make your daycare great again".
Well that's particularly on the nose...
DarkJediKnight
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It's scary that "Making America Great Again" has become the war cry for all White Supremacists.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Your grammar is what they should be afraid of.Concerned Parent said:
Jesus juniper christ you overly hysterical children, k.jack was clearly making a humorous comment. The scenario he describes would fit perfectly in a curb your enthusiasm episode. I can absolutely guarantee he doesn't empathize with some made up white family over the woman facing horrifying racism.
TetraGenesis
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Yeah. Very honestly, it's so extreme I would have hands down assumed fake say 3 or 4 years ago.
But now? This day and age? This climate? This detestable social atmosphere?
...I think I'd be more surprised if it weren't real.
OH. Also:
Even if, hypothetically, it were false, the threats and and vitriol that she received from Trump supporters/racists online after definitely isn't. Those thoughts were 110% relatable to them and worth defending publicly. Online. Where they can never disappear or be disputed.
Baraka Obama
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Fucking idiot couldnt even bother to use spellcheck or you know proper grammar.
Messofanego
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Defaulting to caring about some hypothetical white people rather than the people affected by racism here in reality is weird.
GhostTrick
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It's not "just a troll".
Whoever wrote this is an asshole, whatever the intent was, it's racist af.
Messofanego
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Are you k.jack's alt or have any relation to him/her? The post didn't have a disclaimer of sarcasm and forgive people if they believe the post is sincere because many people here will care first about hypothetical white people than minorities. Remember all the disruptive protest threads. It happened so often that a fictional character was made from the concern.
I believe it's real.
They knew the person on staff and went through the EFFORT of writing this letter.
A million things you can be doing with your time and to personally single out one person in such a manner means it's more than a troll attempt.
Just accept the fact that this hatred is too real to be conceived by normal empathetic minds.
They knew the person on staff and went through the EFFORT of writing this letter.
A million things you can be doing with your time and to personally single out one person in such a manner means it's more than a troll attempt.
Just accept the fact that this hatred is too real to be conceived by normal empathetic minds.
RustyNails
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Why would this be fake? Why would an internet troll scout random daycares to find the blackest person working there and concoct this nonsense?
Besides, the font makes it real. Only a racist "concerned mom" would use that monstrosity.
Besides, the font makes it real. Only a racist "concerned mom" would use that monstrosity.
That was my reaction as well. Pure scum.
Yes it would?
At least if it we're fake instead of it being a group of racist parents and families it would just be one dumb racist. We're I in that situation I would definitely take the latter over the former.
Nah, the kids need to spend as little time with these people as possible.
Baraka Obama
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Doesnt matter if its fake or real, if its racially motivated than clearly its racist. I think a big problem Im seeing in this thread is that some people here seem to think racism is not as bad if youre trolling which is a terrible mindset.
The sound people make when they are confused in anime
Are you k.jack's alt or have any relation to him/her? The post didn't have a disclaimer of sarcasm and forgive people if they believe the post is sincere because many people here will care first about hypothetical white people than minorities. Remember all the disruptive protest threads. It happened so often that a fictional character was made from the concern.
No. I am familiar with him over the years from me being a former gaf hop poster and therefore interacting with him and reading his posts regularly. I know what kind of person he is and that his default position wouldn't be to empathize with a fictional white couple over the victim in this story. And even if I wasn't familiar with k.jack I'd give him the benefit of doubt because I'm tired of people on this site always assuming the worst out of everyone else on here.
Sgt. Kabukiman
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Ugh. Everything about this letter is vomit inducing. Doesn't matter if it's real or a "prank". And the post-scriptum explains it all.
7DollarHagane
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Holy shit this is terrible.
I hope they can find out who wrote it. Can you get fingerprints from a letter/paper?
The wording of it is so on the nose that it almost feels like a prank but there's no way to know. Some shit ass older brother decided to be a edgelord in real life or something when he saw the worker in question.
I hope they can find out who wrote it. Can you get fingerprints from a letter/paper?
The wording of it is so on the nose that it almost feels like a prank but there's no way to know. Some shit ass older brother decided to be a edgelord in real life or something when he saw the worker in question.
mambadragon
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Hey that's my hometown. I am in no way surprised.
Gentleman Jack
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You know what else is getting old? People overselling the tone of a reaction as hysteria while lacing it with personal insults.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mammoth Jones
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Yup. I wouldn't want my child there since she's black. I'd be worried some bigot would hurt my kid cause they don't like the amount of melanin in her skin.
Bigots are the worst cowards.
formasymphonic
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I'd say that it hasn't really "become" it. It was a dogwhistle from day one.
hey_monkey
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^^This.
What is "real?" Is it only real if it's a real parent who feels this way? Anything else is a troll? Imagine you're the worker in question and I expect it begins to feel real enough no matter what.
It could well be a "trolling" letter in the sense that similar fonts have been used for intimidating fliers and letters around the country. But even if we imagine this is a "liberal" writing a "fake" letter to make some kind of a point, I expect it still feels real fucking racist to the woman who is the target. It draws on the same racism. The impact is the same.
Thus the liberal use of quotes here. Whatever the intent, the impact is essentially the same, which makes the question of fakery a much less important one in the end. The twitter responses to the post, too, seem much more concerned about fakery and politics than the victim.
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