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Uber drivers aren't afraid to pick you up because you have a lot of money and a smartphone. It's a signal that you're a young black hipster and not a gang bange

by nsxwolf 14y ago

Uber drivers aren't afraid to pick you up because you have a lot of money and a smartphone. It's a signal that you're a young black hipster and not a gang banger. It's still racist. It just shifts the outcome in your favor.

w1ntermute 14y ago
Hey, progress is progress. At least we're seeing some improvement.
viraptor 14y ago
The first sentence is still true if you remove the race references from it. Is it still racist then? Or is it just showing differences based on income level?
- nsxwolf 14y ago
  It is using differences based on income level as a piece of information that is more important in a driver's decision making process than race. Cab drivers who do not have that information fall back to race. Presumably, if a crystal ball existed that told a driver "This fare will not harm you", the problem of racism would disappear. There aren't many drivers who are refusing money out of pure racial hatred. Black cab drivers are racist against blacks too.
mmanfrin 14y ago
How is it 'still racist'?
tgrass 14y ago
Gang bangers or hipsters. My ethnographic lesson for America is done now.
jack-r-abbit 14y ago
uh... gang bangers have money and smart phones too. They used to rob people for $200 Air Jordans. Now it is for iPhones. Maybe you were confusing "gang banger" with "poor".
- bps4484 14y ago
  To use Uber I think you have to give a credit card. I think this is be biggest deterrent to breaking any laws: they already know who you are and if you commit a crime they can find you. I suppose a gang banger could use a fake credit card to set up an account just to then get a cab and rob them, but that creates a big hurdle that I think will eliminate lots of crime.
  - jack-r-abbit 14y ago
    That is different then. The parent comment was about money and a smart phone being enough to remove the possibility of picking up a gang banger. Having a credit card on file is a whole different thing.

by nsxwolf 14y ago

w1ntermute 14y ago

Hey, progress is progress. At least we're seeing some improvement.

viraptor 14y ago

The first sentence is still true if you remove the race references from it. Is it still racist then? Or is it just showing differences based on income level?

nsxwolf 14y ago
It is using differences based on income level as a piece of information that is more important in a driver's decision making process than race. Cab drivers who do not have that information fall back to race. Presumably, if a crystal ball existed that told a driver "This fare will not harm you", the problem of racism would disappear. There aren't many drivers who are refusing money out of pure racial hatred. Black cab drivers are racist against blacks too.

mmanfrin 14y ago

How is it 'still racist'?

tgrass 14y ago

Gang bangers or hipsters. My ethnographic lesson for America is done now.

jack-r-abbit 14y ago

uh... gang bangers have money and smart phones too. They used to rob people for $200 Air Jordans. Now it is for iPhones. Maybe you were confusing "gang banger" with "poor".

bps4484 14y ago
To use Uber I think you have to give a credit card. I think this is be biggest deterrent to breaking any laws: they already know who you are and if you commit a crime they can find you. I suppose a gang banger could use a fake credit card to set up an account just to then get a cab and rob them, but that creates a big hurdle that I think will eliminate lots of crime.
- jack-r-abbit 14y ago
  That is different then. The parent comment was about money and a smart phone being enough to remove the possibility of picking up a gang banger. Having a credit card on file is a whole different thing.