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From the OP: Also, at some point after this conversation took place, one of the women looked at my prized necklace and said “Hey, that looks like a calculator,
by humean 14y ago
From the OP:
Also, at some point after this conversation took place, one of the women looked at my prized necklace and said “Hey, that looks like a calculator, is that a calculator?”
I said “um no, it’s a necklace, it’s African, from Nairobi.”
And she replies “Oh, huh…..well, it looks like a calculator.”
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If this is an accurate recollection, the author is a seriously disturbed person who should not be in this or any other workplace. If this is not an accurate recollection... I'm not sure the conclusion is any different.
Certainly there are workplace shootings where the perpetrator appears to have a very similar attitude - the Omar Thornton case, for instance:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_Distributors_shooting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_Distributors_shooting
Kixeye is obviously a company with a corporate culture in which people vigorously insult each other in a typical young male style. A similar institution is the US military - at least at the enlisted level. Race relations in the military are and always have been excellent, so perhaps the hypothesis that coarse humor is the cause of racial hostility could use a little more exploring.
I wouldn't want to work at a company like Kixeye, though. It's obviously an even worse fit for the OP. And that's not even to mention that this kind of office culture is actually illegal in our great nation, land of the free and home of the brave. This is irresponsible toward the investors, at least...
- nollidge 14y ago> If this is an accurate recollection, the author is a seriously disturbed person So you're saying that an overly defensive reaction to someone misunderstanding a fashion object means he's likely to shoot the place up? That a guy gets systematically discriminated against at the workplace, and you're worried he's too angry about it? And that he might get violent about it because one single other person one time did? And that the U.S. military, which features numerous official directives against racial discrimination, is an aptly analogous institution?
- humean 14y agoNumerous of his comments reek of pure dehumanizing hate. He sounds exactly like Omar Thornton. Or Colin Ferguson. It actually wouldn't be difficult to suggest further examples. Furthermore, right below us on the thread, and also above us in a more allusive context, are comments encouraging him to react in an "incandescent," murderous rage.
- saraid216 14y agoI like how this fixates on the smallest offense and considers it representative and most relevant for armchair psychological analysis.
- humean 14y agoReverse the races and look at how you'd judge a black equivalent. This one "smallest offense" would color your perception of the person permanently.
- saraid216 14y agoShould I assume the white person is Italian, Irish, German, Russian, or what? "Whiteness" is defined in contrast to a person's blackness. You can't talk about racism against whites without first acknowledging a previous racism by whites.
- MartinCron 14y agoAnd that's not even to mention that this kind of office culture is actually illegal in our great nation, land of the free and home of the brave Are you sarcastically implying that this kind of office culture should be legal in a civilized society?
- humean 14y agoIt's certainly one of the freedoms we used to have: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_association http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_association As for "civilized," you can make up your own mind...
- pron 14y agoThis isn't "typical young male style"; it's typical douchebag style. If only they had the wit to at least be funny. Sometimes witty charm can go a long way. But these guys just seem like boring, unintelligent, run-of-the-mill idiots. Oh, and I wouldn't even dare call this "humor", coarse or not. You've now insulted the rich, long history of the term.