shuzkaakra

shuzkaakra t1_j9jygor wrote

Does the joke "work" if the guys are white?

No.

It's a racist joke.

And what kind of etiquette is it to imply that a guy is a car thief when you're putting them on a stream/TV without asking them. Presumably that guy right now is having to deal with the fallout of being the lame end of this stupidity.

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shuzkaakra t1_j9gnvhs wrote

What do you think Maz is looking at on the video that makes him think those guys would make sense in a car thief joke? Are they holding one of those window door jimmy things? Are they dressed in masks? No, they're black. That's why he thinks they look like thieves. It's racist.

Are you trying to argue this point because it feels like something you'd say or do? Maybe you would need to rethink that.

How hard is it to see that seeing two black dudes and saying "haha those two car thieves behind you" is racist?

And the guy talks a lot, maybe he misspoke and the whole thing was somehow funny in his head. Maybe joking that the two black guys "who can't hear us, right?" are car thieves... is racist?

I seems like it to me. I honestly don't think it's worth arguing about where we'd put this on a 1-10 scale. It's pretty subjective how that scale is defined. I'd probably put anything over a 5 as fireable. I think the guy should be fired for this.

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shuzkaakra t1_j9gm4r3 wrote

Yeah, but why does he look like a car thief?

I guess he should have been wearing a suit and had a straight haircut. Maybe wear librarian glasses. :\

To me, on the scale of racists on 1 to 10 where 10 is 100% racist. This is like a 5/6. He's not a day to day racist, but it's there. Otherwise, he doesn't say what he said.

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shuzkaakra t1_j8wg4b2 wrote

Are there any chemical factories near you? I've had times in my life driving around when there's a smell like that and I'm pretty sure it's some factory cleaning out whatever shit they need to burn off. (Probably illegally).

They might be timing it so everyone thinks its the ohio plume.

Benzene is sweet: https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/poison/benzene-poisoning

Hydrogen Sulfide is another: https://doh.wa.gov/community-and-environment/contaminants/hydrogen-sulfide

Another article was about a coolant leak from a car. That can smell sweet. It could have been you were behind someone who had coolant on their engine, or your car was doing it (although you'd probably notice when you stopped).

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shuzkaakra t1_j38nopd wrote

I saw a post today that was like 'as a european, why don't you stupid americans just strike to get better conditions'

Top response: 'Our jobs give us health care'.

The system is 100% designed to just fuck people at the bottom over and over and over.

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shuzkaakra t1_irw8aui wrote

The dumbest part of that stop sign is that you could just close one lane coming over 90 and make it rolling merge. You'd end up with traffic having to cross over quickly over a short distance, but it would function better than what's there now.

The whole thing sucks though. What a surprise when you start with the idea of putting a hotel over a highway.

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