It's that time. We're traveling back two months in time for an episode all about the people who got extremely mad online at Alex for wearing a keffiyeh (and who probably also got him temporarily fired) Tagging the wrong employer, fantasies about being Alex's boss and killing him, getting mad about culturally appropriating from a "filthy" group of people--the responses are a delight to behold.
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| Yeah, Shelly Mike says, "I wore blackface to work and spoke in a black dialect. | |
| My bosses told me to stop. | |
| They think that as an employee at their place of business, I somehow am a representative of their company. | |
| Keep cosplaying as a Muslim terrorist slash rapist at work. | |
| Fuck the customers and your bosses. | |
| Wild. | |
| So what's the ideology here? | |
| Does he think black people are like Muslim terrorists? | |
| Is that why it's frowned upon to not do blackface at work because your boss might think he hired a black person by accident? | |
| No, because it's really it's really just like this is all they know of. | |
| This is the only examples of a probation they know of. | |
| They can't because because all the ones that are happening all the time, like, you know, under the radar, you know, with through the soft racism of the world, they don't they can't. | |
| This is the only version they can acknowledge. | |
| But I will say, if you were doing whatever your idea of a Palestinian voice the whole day, if you were doing that, this might be a different conversation. | |
| Sure. | |
| I don't think you were doing that. | |
| No, I wasn't. | |
| But yeah, these people are like, you're doing cultural appropriation of an animalistic subhuman race of people. | |
| And that's not right. | |
| It's actually wrong for two reasons. | |
| One, because it's racist for you to do that. | |
| And two, nobody should ever want to be like those beasts. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Incredible. | |
| And then, yeah, another example, Mark Cohen says, you actually look like a homeless rapist in that thing, which is different to Hamas because they have a home in a filthy, stinking tunnel. | |
| Okay. | |
| See, I thought they were saying, I thought they were being like super harsh. | |
| Well, they are being, but I thought they were saying that because you look Palestinian, you look like you have no home because all the homes have been destroyed. | |
| And then the second half kind of like took it a different direction. | |
| Um, if you fucking Mark, what a fucking loser. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Uh, and it's, it's funny because this is like, it's not, it's not a Hamas scarf. | |
| It's a, it's a Palestinian scarf. | |
| Uh, and you're just like, yeah, once again, the, one of the most racist comment sections, uh, they, they managed to somehow be racist to me, a white guy. | |
| Like they managed, they managed to unleash some of their most insane racist screeds against me. | |
| Uh, fantastic. | |
| It's so funny, because that is what happens in Palestine. | |
| If you express solidarity with Palestinians, they say you're expressing solidarity with Hamas. | |
| If you were to do that with America, you'd be fucked. | |
| You'd be fucked. | |
| You'd be like, oh, you support America, so you support the Proud Boys. | |
| You're a Proud Boy? | |
| Yeah. | |
| It's the same thing. | |
| Well, I mean, the American flag is, I think, looked at a lot differently overseas. | |
| You know, Americans are looked at differently. | |
| And that's the proper assessment, not assigning you with one group. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| That's a good, honest assessment. | |
| Yeah. | |
| It would be like looking at like Native American people like that because you watch too many Westerns or something. | |
| Exactly. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So this is another round of screenshots that I'm calling. | |
| If you were my employee, And again, just wonderful stuff here. | |
| I love when people fantasize about being the boss. | |
| Fantasize about me working for them. | |
| It's so cool. | |
| Leanne Ayers said, Look, dude, keep your opinions out of the workplace. | |
| If one of my employees came in wearing a keffiyeh, they would be sent home and put on unpaid administrative leave until a conduct hearing was held. | |
| Uh, they kept saying, they kept saying things like this, like this is, and I wasn't even really responding to them. | |
| Uh, but they were like, this is what I would do yet. | |
| And it's like, I don't want to work for you. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Go away. | |
| What are you doing? | |
| Her avatar. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Is, is the star of David and it says, dear ancestors, we understood the assignment. | |
| Dude. | |
| Oh my God. | |
| I'm happy. | |
| This person wasn't coming at you for appropriation. | |
| I hope. | |
| I'm saying like, this is your boss's profile picture and you wear a keffiyeh to work. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| You should expect some sort of blowback. | |
| And then Rin replies, you think this clown has a real job? | |
| LOL. | |
| And again, like a big problem with this post was that I, I, I have a, I have a job. | |
| I have a real job. | |
| That was kind of the whole point of the post was about my job for good or ill. | |
| Uh, that's, that was the whole point of it. | |
| And a lot of people were like, This guy doesn't even have a job and I'm like there's a there's a logo you can see on my uniform right now buddy. | |
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