Go_Ly_Dow
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They've all worked in social media.
They know full well exactly what they need to help their reputations at this point....and that is to basically play the bullshit game.
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Man takes selfie with 3yo black boy, makes racist jokes, gets fired & plays victim
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They've all worked in social media.
They know full well exactly what they need to help their reputations at this point....and that is to basically play the bullshit game.
Dash_Riprock
Member
I love how people still think no one in the real world sees their Facebook posts.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Alright dude, I'm listening. Please explain the context. Go on.
Angelus Errare
Banned
Because to most Americans these people are the real victims and everyone else are race baiters
Black Republican
Member
hes upset he got caught. Would he have been pro active and apologize before he got fired? hells no.
fuck Tim and trying to "fit in"
Well, what should happen next? He lost his job, embarrassed himself on television, and will probably take the full brunt of the internet retribution machine for at least the immediate future. He's an asshole who deserves as much, but he still should eventually get the chance to move on with his life, right? I just hope he somehow emerges as a better person and doesn't double-down on his shitheadedness.
travisbickle
Member
I didn't see in the OP he'd written racist comments before.
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
How can you be sure, though?
LookAtMeGo
Member
I'm baffled how someone in his position thought that would be a good idea. What a douche.
Dash_Riprock
Member
He has, read the article.
Dr. Buni
Member
If someone is a racist/bigot/prejudicial scumbag in your "private life" they should totally be fired from whichever job they have, I think. It doesn't matter if someone is only doing "social fuck ups" in their private lives.
Anyways, poor kid.
Yeah. Employing racist assholes reflect badly on a company.
Yep I ain't even mad.
Just be aware that lax workers rights can cut in directions that aren't so pretty as well.
Japanmanx3
Member
Completely dumb.
He argues that the feral comment was taken out of context, but it's the context that makes it racist. He's trying to take his own comment out of context.
Is it wrong that I think it's kind of a good thing that these people don't know that what they post can be viewed by others?
Is it wrong that I think it's kind of a good thing that these people don't know that what they post can be viewed by others?
travisbickle
Member
I see now. I wouldn't have said it was unintentional if I realised he'd made sick comments about Trayvon Martin's murder. And now he's making a hashtag about his own bullshit.
Not at all.
One of the great pastimes of our age is watching the complete and utter self-destruction of complete morons on social media. There seems to be an endless supply of them, too.
Vigilant Walrus
Member
I think him and his friends put themselves in a position were them being fired was unavoidable. Besides the racism, it is unprofessional and creepy to take pictures of other peoples kids without permission. Posting them on facebook is a breach of privacy.
Diversity training, community service and public speaking are tools you can use to change the minds of someone, make an example of someone, and punish someone in a that is actually proactive. Finally public speaking can actually make a difference for others.
Tools that might have long term positive effects and which might be able to spread out. But people like their pitchforks. Not just in mob justice- Let's not pretend it's not a massive societal satisfactory savory thing when public figures get in trouble or do something wrong. The media is out there to ridicule them, we consume them, and we all become the wiser...
But arguing ethics, the victims also have a right for justice. The interesting discussion should just be, what sort of justice? It doesn't look like the person Tim Zheng has learned much from the ultimatum put on him. Though it might, further down the line.
Diversity training, community service and public speaking are tools you can use to change the minds of someone, make an example of someone, and punish someone in a that is actually proactive. Finally public speaking can actually make a difference for others.
Tools that might have long term positive effects and which might be able to spread out. But people like their pitchforks. Not just in mob justice- Let's not pretend it's not a massive societal satisfactory savory thing when public figures get in trouble or do something wrong. The media is out there to ridicule them, we consume them, and we all become the wiser...
But arguing ethics, the victims also have a right for justice. The interesting discussion should just be, what sort of justice? It doesn't look like the person Tim Zheng has learned much from the ultimatum put on him. Though it might, further down the line.
……forgetit
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It was a direct transcript online. Their is no more context.
Willful ignorance or has our [admittedly subpar] education system really failed you that you don't understand why calling a black person feral has racist connotations?
franknbeans
Member
He needs his ass whipped
A wave of jokes that reveal racist tendencies and discriminatory lines of thinking cost him his job.
He's just being exposed.
ftfy
Pretty much. I have friends of all races and we often crack jokes about each other that many people would probably find extremely offensive.. Gotta keep that shit in your private circle.
……forgetit
Member
This should have been obvious. No one with half a brain would say what these people did. If you said the same things in an office you'd have the same consequences.
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If they don't deal directly with the public, and don't cause trouble with any coworkers, why fire them? It's not a companies job to censor their employees.
Snkfanatic
Banned
I don't get it, I mean I get the reference but what does this have to do with anything?
There are already so many examples of people getting fired or a shitstorm for posting dumb shit on facebook but a lot of people still do it. Don't really understand this. Posting this kind of shit in an random forum will maybe just get you banned there but posting this on FB?
That people in their thirties don't get this is really baffling.
Lol, absolutely no pitty with them even when these are "just jokes"... the OP shows there is nothing to spin there.
That people in their thirties don't get this is really baffling.
Lol, absolutely no pitty with them even when these are "just jokes"... the OP shows there is nothing to spin there.
I'm very very against internet lynch mobs and the damage they can do.
This, however, turned out alright. This guy and the friends he keeps are obviously steeped in the kind of hateful and racist language that has no need for context and is not excused by "joking around". He and the people who posted on that picture are bigots who can't see the humanity in a 3 y/o black boy, much less a grown ass black man.
As long as we leave it at that, no death threats, no doxing, let the racist shithead and his misplaced fury fade away even from memory.
All races huh?
This, however, turned out alright. This guy and the friends he keeps are obviously steeped in the kind of hateful and racist language that has no need for context and is not excused by "joking around". He and the people who posted on that picture are bigots who can't see the humanity in a 3 y/o black boy, much less a grown ass black man.
As long as we leave it at that, no death threats, no doxing, let the racist shithead and his misplaced fury fade away even from memory.
All races huh?
Pulling the piss out of mates - who are up for it and give as good as they get - is slightly different than posting racist shit about some random kid you took a picture of, public or private, that is reprehensible.
I do agree that if there is piss taking between mates about themselves you should probably keep it private. The problem is when that shit leaks out to people who don't get the "joke" and rightfully think you're a racist cunt - not you btw - we're talking hypotheticals here.
I'm all for mates taking the piss out of each other and it is generally no holds barred. The worse the funnier, usually.
……forgetit
Member
This wasn't a case where that was true. The guy worked in marketing therefore he hurt the companies image and they probably had a hard time with clients. Second that's his coworker's kid, I'm sure the whole office hated him once it got around.
That apology makes me want to barf. Insincere, self-pitying bullshit.Not that I cheer people losing their jobs, but that Tim Zheng guy was talking crazy shit before he got fired by his company.
He went from that to this
Comes across as very insincere. Also looks like he lost a very good job over this. What an idiot.
And now when employers google his name this shit will pop up.
Glad he got fired.
If racist jokes are what you tend to crank out on a lark, then yeah, social media probably isn't for you.
That's the thing right? People say "oh I'm glad I'm not on social media" but are you talking about this story or just in general? Cause this guy was having a racist facebook party with a 3 y/o kid. He wasn't talking shit with his buddies.
If you got on social media and started doing ANYTHING like this then you are a racist or an edgelord and the line between those two things is increasingly thin. Full Stop. No context, no excuse, do not pass go.
But if you and your mates are on twitter what exactly would be the interaction that gets you fired? I'm so confused by this pre-persecution complex that some people have like we're coming after your jokes between friends.
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Well yah, that I can understand and agree with. But the person I quoted said all employees. That's a pretty wide net to be casting for an employer to actually follow through on.
CassidyIzABeast
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I wouldn't be mad at all if a double door refrigerator fell on all of these idiots.
DrROBschiz
Member
Fucking terrible
How how much evil do you have to have in your heart to say that shit about a 3 year old innocent kid
Sick sick sick! Racists need to be gone!
How how much evil do you have to have in your heart to say that shit about a 3 year old innocent kid
Sick sick sick! Racists need to be gone!
darkinstinct
...lacks reading comprehension.
You got what you deserve, racist. The sad thing is this is only gonna make him more racist.
Can you imagine?
He can't even humanize a 3 y/o. A fucking baby.
Some people are just broken fundamentally.
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