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wow, very weird to find racism in an article on block storage. "no tickee, no laundry"? how offensive and out of line.
by Upvoter33 11y ago
wow, very weird to find racism in an article on block storage. "no tickee, no laundry"? how offensive and out of line.
- dozzie 11y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10550329 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10550329
- steego 11y agoI'm not the kind of person who gets easily offended. Like a lot of people, I enjoy environments where people are free to hurl creative, over-the-line and asinine insults at each other so long as everybody has consented to getting their chops busted. Having said that, there's a time and place for everything. When talking publically, it's not only considerate to refrain from mocking accents, it's wise.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoHow many people reading this were even alive when "Chinese Laundry" was a thing (http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2015/09/04/chinese-laundry/ http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2015/09/04/chinese-laun...)
- andyana 11y agoIs there some subtext to his comparison that I am missing? Couldn't you say this about most services (no receipt, no pickup)? Why did he choose to compare it to "Chinese Laundry"?
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago"No tickee no laundry" is a particular saying that used to be in more common use.