• superkret@feddit.org
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    18 hours ago
    1. How is gender and race at all relevant for this joke?
    2. How is that picture appropriate for a professional networking site?
    3. Also, what did the dude google to find that picture?
    • bunitor@lemmy.eco.br
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      2 hours ago

      this is supposed to be one of those “take that, racist prick” stories. these are pretty common

    • Bob@feddit.nl
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      5 hours ago

      Isn’t it supposed to be like those riddles where the answer is that the doctor’s a woman?

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      I refuse to believe that you don’t already know the answers to 1 and 2 and that you don’t have an inkling about 3

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      18 hours ago
      1. The point of the joke is the rich man is racist and/or misogynistic.

      2. It’s just a picture of a woman?

      3. Probably something horny and vaguely racist.

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      18 hours ago

      Race is relevant because it’s the point of the joke (he’s racist, but his racism is foiled). Gender isn’t relevant. The picture is what makes this dude a lunatic. If I saw this shit and I worked with him I’d forward it to HR with the note “hey just file this one away, you don’t need to act on it right now but you’re definitely gonna want this receipt sooner or later”.

      • Repple (she/her)@lemmy.world
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        What in the joke makes him racist but not misogynistic?

        There’s nothing in the joke saying she’s either the only black person or the only woman in the bar. In fact you could say that there’s more pointing to him being misogynistic in that he says “this woman” and not “this black person”.

        To me it reads as both

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          8 hours ago

          That just depends on the order of attributes you prefer to use to refer to a person.

          For me gender or age would usually come first rather than race

          • Repple (she/her)@lemmy.world
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            8 hours ago

            Okay, that’s a fair point as to that comment not making it more sexist than racist, but not for it only being racist. I don’t see anything in the story pointing to race over sex.

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              I would argue that mentioning race at all is what makes it more of a racist thing.

              Like, why say that woman was black at all then?

              But it’s all just semantics, it’s a fake story that has both aspects in it, and it doesn’t really matter if it’s one or the other

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      15 hours ago

      Who gives a shit about any of that since this was literally stolen from the opening scene of crazy rich Asians.