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Man takes selfie with 3yo black boy, makes racist jokes, gets fired & plays victim
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victreeb3l
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Thank you social media for making it easier for bigots to out themselves. Glad him and his idiot friends got canned.
metalslimer
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Even without the context of the other posts explain the joke of calling a kid feral. And after you explain it you'll understand why.
I mean if the reason for the firing would have been numerous people on social media calling and harassing the business and making threats like has happened in the past, there would be some legit criticism warranted. Would there not?
However I don't think that has happened here. This honestly seems pretty straight forward and clean. Guy made a blatant race baiting post and fed into it with friends about a co-worker. Job took issue and the guy is canned. The company seems justified and he has no real leg to stand on because there really is no context I can see that makes this guy not look like a racist.
Rabbi_Vole
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Gordon Shumway
Banned
Feel good story of the week..............
Another story about racist fucks in America? Must be Tuesday.
There's not point in feigning surprise by this. This shit happens everyday, and is more widespread than folks want to acknowledge.
I'm glad these assholes lost their jobs. Ok at the point in my life where I am just done with racists. Their bullshit, toxic thinking affects lives everyday, and I'm supposed to feel empathy for them when they get what's coming to them? Fuck that, and fuck them.
The beauty of the social media era is that racist pieces of shit are tripping over themselves to voice their shit to their likeminded friends. And yet, no matter how many times these idiots get fired, and ruin their careers, the next set of racists never fail to fall into the same shitstorm. And I LOVE it. Only in that I hope one day it sinks in that we will not tolerate this crap any longer in this country. It may be a small number of us, but one day we'll outnumber the people that are tolerant of casual and overt racism.
There's not point in feigning surprise by this. This shit happens everyday, and is more widespread than folks want to acknowledge.
I'm glad these assholes lost their jobs. Ok at the point in my life where I am just done with racists. Their bullshit, toxic thinking affects lives everyday, and I'm supposed to feel empathy for them when they get what's coming to them? Fuck that, and fuck them.
The beauty of the social media era is that racist pieces of shit are tripping over themselves to voice their shit to their likeminded friends. And yet, no matter how many times these idiots get fired, and ruin their careers, the next set of racists never fail to fall into the same shitstorm. And I LOVE it. Only in that I hope one day it sinks in that we will not tolerate this crap any longer in this country. It may be a small number of us, but one day we'll outnumber the people that are tolerant of casual and overt racism.
The Faceless Master
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i can understand why you wouldn't think much of it.
do you understand why some of us get a Kojima style ! over our heads when reading it?
metalslimer
Member
He's trolling
Come on dude. Context is King. You know darn well it not's racist there. Words can be overloaded to possess different qualities in different contexts. Your being disingenuous.
Tinfoilhatsron
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No one is keeping score unfortunately but that's a huge amount of racists in one thread.
Context does matter.
In here the context is used to describe a fellow co-worker's 3 year old son. Yeah, it's pretty racist IMO especially in the context of the other comments. He knew what he was getting into.
Prototype Viktor
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Black kid, kitten, a tuba all the same
Ninja Scooter
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Is Miller a racist?
Oh god just stop it already. You are either dense or trying to be contrarian.
adamsappel
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That's how I know I'm not racist. I don't have any black friends!
Marty Chinn
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If someone asked where you got a kid, saying he's feral is like saying you took the kid in like a stray kitten you found. I wouldn't think much of it. Heck I've made a comment before how my toddler was like a puppy. I didn't think I was insulting my son at the time.
Rabbi_Vole
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I've had many a coworker bring unruly kids into the workplace.. They run amok all throughout the day... Referring to them as feral I'm sure has been joked about before. Race wasn't the issue.
Mysterious
Banned
I wonder how the mother felt reading all that though. :'(
Marty Chinn
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Yes. I was just asking if there was some other meaning I wasn't aware of that had deeper roots. In the context of the other replies he's engaging along with the others. On it's own it seems harmless.
Rabbi_Vole
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I'm not on Facebook. How can he be responsible for others racist remarks?
Baroquemantic
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Good. Fuck him and his racist ass friends.
Ninja Scooter
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holy shit dude you can't just remove the context. Yes in a vacuum the word "feral" is by itself not racist. Nobody is saying that. The reason that word, in this situation, is raising so many eye brows is because of the context of the situation. I don't understand why this needs to be explained. The word "black" in itself is not racist. I have a black pen. I have a black shirt. But if I post a picture of an african american person and say "typical fucking black" it's probably going to cause a stir. No, you are not a racist for referring to your son as feral. Don't worry.
Keep going, I want to see where this ends up.
The Faceless Master
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Or the Senate.
But seriously, feral has some pretty nasty connotations. Add those connotations to how Africans are often negatively compared to animals and....
Well it's not like calling someone a fox, or saying someone is a real work horse.
And in the context where the guy and all of his friends seem to be in some mad arms race to dehumanise and humiliate this kid as much as they are I cannot fathom how anybody can look at that and see anything but racism.
Is there any indication whatsoever the kid is unruly?
metalslimer
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Dude explain why he would call the kid feral instead of saying he was for a coworker. Obviously he decided to make a joke, so think about that joke for a second
If the guy didn't have the Trayvoning picture and then some other posts that imply his inner racism, I could see the argument being swung that "feral" may not be meant in a racist context. That possibly others are projecting their interpretation as being the true intention of the the speaker without justification.
However seeing the guys history it becomes clear that he clearly has some serious racist streaks. So the likelihood of the "feral" comment being relatively innocent seems impossibly low.
However seeing the guys history it becomes clear that he clearly has some serious racist streaks. So the likelihood of the "feral" comment being relatively innocent seems impossibly low.
Rabbi_Vole
Banned
I thought I did. I'll reread.
The Faceless Master
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a'ight. cool.
Stop dude, you shouldn't have to explain to people why the term would be offensive. They either know or they should know.
Tinfoilhatsron
Banned
Then the proper comment a non racist would say is:
"All these kids running amok, they're pretty wild at that age."
You might have a leg to stand on there if you made a comment out of the blue.
Here?
He uses the term "feral" in context to this:
He is referring to the child as a wild animal.
He is clearly RACIST, stop trying to deny it
Gordon Shumway
Banned
Or don't agree or don't care to see it..place is funny that way.
Yes, as a joke it might have work on its own, something like "A wild kid has appeared!" and both of them looking surprised in the pic, but paired with all that racist shit?, the intention is quite clear
ugh_the_boot
Banned
Wow sucked in, both those dumbasses got owned!
Rabbi_Vole
Banned
You've obviously never been in a bring your kid to work work environment. Trolling?
Ninja Scooter
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Sound it out. We'll wait.
FadedRevolution
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So the whole conversation he had on the picture didn't give you any clues?
Go on.
You're probably right.
Context matters. Feral on it's own is not racist but when you're calling someone of another race a wild animal when they're doing nothing then yes it's safe to assume that you're being racist.
metalslimer
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Did you even read the conversation that preceded it. I don't know why I'm even bothering responding to you.
Lol it's always the same people in these topics defending the wrong people.
Anyway, glad to see the guy lost his job. What a dumass, he's in marketing he should know how social media works.
Marty Chinn
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I'm asking if calling the kid feral and him being black is racist or bad on it's own or only bad within the context of the other comments. Say the other comments didn't exist other than where did you get the kid. Would this be a huge issue still?
SimpleGamer
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Man wtf!!
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