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Originally Posted by Eisai
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It's a TV show character created and played by a black man not a white guy or lady in face makeup so it can't be racist, right?
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I’ll preface this by saying myself and my family have bled dark red for my entire lifetime, meaning we are as red as it gets and have always voted red
That being said, I understand the way the world works and remember that there have been multiple tv show characters who have been seen as racist stereotypes causing issues with those particular show’s publication of those characters. And it really doesn’t matter who is playing the character, it matters if the character is a walking talking racist stereotype
So no, “b-b-but it’s from a showww!” wouldn’t save someone from a trip to HR had they tried that joke in a typical work environment. And that was always my entire issue with this whiny attention whore of an OP. He was attempting to claim that being sensitive about jokes is the way to lose, not keep, one’s job. And that’s just not the way the world works. Even if administration or management thought the racist joke was funny, they have the optics and PR of the company to consider and would likely at least reprimand the person making the joke to keep that stuff at home
And the OP went off on some tangent about how “excuse me, it’s CA-REER!” about his lawn mowing or dog walking business without acknowledging that it would be stupid to try racist jokes in a typical work environment. So I really have no idea if he came round on that point or not, which was again, my only point