Stole it off of reddit

  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netOP
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    Two weeks ago, I saw the loner at the table of an event. Went to go talk to them because they were alone for a while.

    In less than 10 minutes, they made a offensive joke that would have insulted half the people here, and complained about their living situation unprompted.

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      Idk why in imagining them telling a version of the aristocrat’s and then saying, “So anyway, that’s my roommates.”

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        The guy made a comment about women and minorities about if I was just trying to meet a DEI quota.

        He said this to me, a person of color, at a tech event where according to the census, 60% of Engineers are white.

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          Maybe he is a want to be racist. Not actually racist enough to avoid you but racist enough to make nasty jokes.

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            You know something that often gets overlooked about bigoted “humor”, is how predicable and tiring it it. Even if it wasn’t inherently offensive, it’s not funny.

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              Yeah that shouldn’t be surprising. When you make a joke that puts people down it is rarely funny unless you hold certain beliefs.