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I'm reminded of a Twitter joke from (according to the WaPo) @KevinFarzad: "HEY IT'S ME your facebook friend from high school who never left our hometown & thin
by ubermonkey 5y ago
I'm reminded of a Twitter joke from (according to the WaPo) @KevinFarzad:
"HEY IT'S ME your facebook friend from high school who never left our hometown & thinks Olive Garden is fancy. Anyway, here's a racist article."
- circa 5y agolol classic
- fooperdupes 5y agolol classist
- Jackpillar 5y ago
- monocasa 5y agoNot really. A lot of my high school friends in that boat are upper class. One is the new district attorney of my hometown for instance. Another is a regulelar contributer to fox news. The stereotype is orthogonal to class.
- fullshark 5y ago“Thinks Olive Garden is fancy” is clearly a pejorative class signal
- monocasa 5y agoIn my experience it says more about if you've left your little town for a relatively significant period of time than class. I know train kids with more exposure to the world than that, and as I said above district attorneys and national news contributors who have no interest in anything outside the commercial zone of their suburb.
- shrimp_emoji 5y ago> train kids Is this a slur for my kind?
- monocasa 5y agoIt's a term for teenagers and young adults that left the small town they were from by literally jumping on to a moving cargo train.
- catach 5y agoI suspect what may be tripping people up in this kind of discussion is that financial class and social class can be distinct from each other.
- monocasa 5y agoI've found that social class in non urban environments is orthogonal to taste. District attorneys don't necessarily get paid well, but they are pretty high up in local social class.
- markvdb 5y agoSpot on observation. Classical guitar teacher here. I'd never have been able to buy the house I'm writing this from on my salary if not for also prostituting myself in the it sector :-)
- bko 5y agoHow is that a joke? It's just looking down on someone because of where they live, eat and their politics (assuming very lose definition of "racist"). And when did the role of journalists start including dunking on random people?
- dgellow 5y agoJournalist are normal people. Normal people write shitposts on Twitter. Presidents and CEOs can shitposts on Twitter but journalists cannot? What a weird assumption.
- bko 5y agoShowing contempt for huge swaths of people doesn't really bode well for objectivity. It's in poor taste for anyone to just dunk on people who stay near their homes and eat at olive garden. Sure, journalists CAN shit post, and obviously they do. I guess I assume journalists that cover news for presumably everyone wouldn't have such open contempt for so many people. But hey, that's just me.
- browningstreet 5y agoThey’re not dunking on people who stay near home and eat at Olive Garden.
- ubermonkey 5y agoI just realized you're basing your ire here on a misread of my post. The joke is not from a journalist. The joke was copied widely when originally posted, and it wasn't clear to me who wrote it in the first place -- but if I was going to reference it here, I wanted to give proper credit. I found a story in the WaPo about online joke plagiarism, and it used this joke as an example -- and cited musician Kevin Farzad as the original author. Based on this, I credited him in my comment accordingly.
- xdavidliu 5y agoI misread your post in exactly the same way and thought the joke was made by a journalist.
- tamaharbor 5y agoWhat’s the matter with Olive Garden?
- r00fus 5y agoJoke is thinking OG is somehow fancy digs.
- jsnodlin 5y agoI wonder where that comes from. Do they pre-prepare their food and microwave it?
- zamadatix 5y agoIt's one of the cheapest casual dining restaurants that provide table service but avoids being fast casual dining and still tries to avoid a cheap look. Basically if eating out in general is a luxury due to cost then to you an Olive Garden or an Applebees type place is where you go to have your celebratory types of dinners because either your small town doesn't have much more to go to and/or your income doesn't really let you go spend on 1 12oz steak what could cover the entire meal for a small group at Olive Garden. Of course there is nothing wrong with thinking OG is fancy and so on. Better to avoid folks who make a big deal out of it IMO.
- meowtimemania 5y agoIt is fancy to a lot of people. I think the parent tweet is funny, but no need to dunk on people that don’t have a lot of money.
- effthisis 5y agoIt's a cheap, sly way to make an anti-White dig.
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