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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Stoney Mason on June 29, 2015, 04:31:43 PM

Title: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Stoney Mason on June 29, 2015, 04:31:43 PM
You can't gay bash anymore. You can't talk about those lazy mexicans. You can't proudly wear your confederate flag wife  beater anymore. We just had a black socialist president.

What is happening!?
Title: Re: This isn't the America I grew up in
Post by: demi on June 29, 2015, 04:32:25 PM
You can do all of those things. You'll just get laughed at cause you're a stupid shit. America #1
Title: Re: This isn't the America I grew up in
Post by: Madrun Badrun on June 29, 2015, 04:33:22 PM
Historians will say the cold war was a pyrrhic victory.
Title: Re: This isn't the America I grew up in
Post by: Phoenix Dark on June 29, 2015, 04:37:42 PM
But you can still suck your father's dick to save him from the brink of death.

best healthcare system in the world :whew
Title: Re: This isn't the America I grew up in
Post by: Himu on June 29, 2015, 04:39:17 PM
But you can still suck your father's dick to save him from the brink of death.

best healthcare system in the world :whew

 :mindblown
Title: Re: This isn't the America I grew up in
Post by: Mandark on June 29, 2015, 04:39:45 PM
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT
Title: Re: This isn't the America I grew up in
Post by: Madrun Badrun on June 29, 2015, 04:40:09 PM
:lol :lol :lol :lol

Obamacare is going to save everyone in the south, since he is son to everyone down there. 
Title: Re: This isn't the America I grew up in
Post by: Steve Contra on June 29, 2015, 04:42:12 PM
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT
You can still petition the government for redress of grievances, you'll just be laughed at when you have your day in court :bolo
Title: Re: This isn't the America I grew up in
Post by: Joe Molotov on June 29, 2015, 04:44:20 PM
(http://i.minus.com/ib1ZKkea8u123o.gif)
Title: Re: This isn't the America I grew up in
Post by: Human Snorenado on June 29, 2015, 04:44:59 PM
THIS IS NOT THE AMERICA THAT MARINE TODD RISKED HIS LIFE FOR
Title: Re: This isn't the America I grew up in
Post by: Brehvolution on June 29, 2015, 04:58:50 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/m9LOWmE.jpg)
Title: Re: This isn't the America I grew up in
Post by: Madrun Badrun on June 29, 2015, 05:00:16 PM
Isn't that first line from a rap song?
Title: Re: This isn't the America I grew up in
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on June 29, 2015, 05:27:10 PM
It got quoted in a rap song but originally it was written for an episode of Lost.
Title: Re: This isn't the America I grew up in
Post by: Madrun Badrun on June 29, 2015, 05:30:49 PM
O that make sense.  Thanks.
Title: Re: This isn't the America I grew up in
Post by: ToxicAdam on June 30, 2015, 09:17:42 AM
I take solace in knowing that Youtube comments will always be there for me
Title: Re: This isn't the America I grew up in
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on June 30, 2015, 09:50:37 AM
Hell I'm a conservative and I have literally 0 problems with what transpired the past few weeks. Good on your Obama.
Title: Re: This isn't the America I grew up in
Post by: Phoenix Dark on June 30, 2015, 12:05:37 PM
Hell I'm a conservative and I have literally 0 problems with what transpired the past few weeks. Good on your Obama.

even the Obamacare victory?
:hitler
Title: Re: This isn't the America I grew up in
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on June 30, 2015, 12:08:50 PM
Hell I'm a conservative and I have literally 0 problems with what transpired the past few weeks. Good on your Obama.

even the Obamacare victory?
:hitler

Don't push it.
Title: Re: This isn't the America I grew up in
Post by: StealthFan on June 30, 2015, 12:11:48 PM
America :rejoice

fegs should be able to marry and adopt children.
Title: Re: This isn't the America I grew up in
Post by: Stoney Mason on June 30, 2015, 12:11:57 PM
I take solace in knowing that Youtube comments will always be there for me

or Xbox Live COD lobbies.

The last havens for real democracy!
Title: Re: This isn't the America I grew up in
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on June 30, 2015, 12:16:05 PM
I take solace in knowing that Youtube comments will always be there for me

or Xbox Live COD lobbies.

The last havens for real democracy!

Nope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGE9AWeZPxU

:snoop
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Stoney Mason on July 24, 2015, 06:12:38 PM
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Radio host Colin Cowherd no longer will appear on ESPN following comments he made questioning the intelligence of Dominican Republic players related to baseball one day earlier, the company said in a statement Friday.

"Colin Cowherd's comments over the past two days do not reflect the values of ESPN or our employees," ESPN said in a statement. "Colin will no longer appear on ESPN."

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/13314040/colin-cowherd-no-longer-espn-air-comments-dominican-republic-players

And of course the Hulk Hogan story today.

Might as well have a catch all thread.
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: studyguy on July 24, 2015, 06:19:46 PM
I've already mentioned it a shitload but working with old ass cacs as my clients in agriculture means I deal with the bottom barrel of conservative society. I mean the kind of people who believe Trump has a shot and the solution to our immigrant/terrorist problems is to shoot the issue dead on sight.

2015 brehs, if you're brown, the people that grew the food on your table prob want you out of the US.

Unless you're getting fruits and shit from local CSA, then you're just dealing with annoying hippie fucks.
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Phoenix Dark on July 24, 2015, 06:38:54 PM
Dude has been saying borderline to blatant racist shit for YEARS and nothing has happened. Even in this case...we've known for awhile that he's moving to Fox Sports so this ESPN "ban" is meaningless.

So much of sports media revolves around white male resentment, especially today. Cowherd has one of the biggest platforms of anyone who perpetuates that shit. And it's always petty shit you can imagine someone defending in the typical "well he wasn't talking about the entire race/I can't stand politically correctness these days/etc" fashion.

When you boil his shit down to its core he's constantly talking shit and making broad generalizations about non white "culture." You hear it in his John Wall attacks, the Dominican stuff, etc.
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Purrp Skirrp on July 24, 2015, 06:41:22 PM
That old cac Borlaug probably liked brown people :idont

Sounds shitty though, be careful brah.
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Shadow Mod on July 24, 2015, 06:42:16 PM
Re:Cowherd

Also heard he's gotten away with some sexual harassment here and there too.

 :goty2
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Yulwei on July 24, 2015, 06:42:45 PM
There is an army of people defending this dude by playing the "well he didn't outright say minorities should be hanged so i don't see what's racist about this" card
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Himu on July 24, 2015, 06:44:23 PM
HOKE HOGUN apologizes for saying the word niggger 50 times! Like it was an innocent mistake! :lol :neogaf :lol
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Phoenix Dark on July 24, 2015, 06:44:46 PM
Cowherd has always been a racist piece of shit. This is nothing new. And he never faces consequences because when you boil it down, a lot of sports radio is fueled by white male resentment.

edit: I hate Cowherd so much I thought I was in seperate thread and made another hate post on this fuckboy
:dead
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Stoney Mason on July 24, 2015, 06:48:54 PM
When you boil his shit down to its core he's constantly talking shit and making broad generalizations about non white "culture."

This tends to be what bothers me in general rather than the actual comments a lot of the time. (The comments are stupid too). It's this laser focus they have on every other group and the failings of them but the inability to see issues within their own group. Or understand the history of why certain things are as they are. Because their group is the "standard" for them not just in measurable terms but norms. So they can't see the flaws. It's just natural for them. Happens a lot with large numerical majorities. That ability to criticize every other group.

I'm speaking towards the ones who I give the benefit of the doubt to. Not the blatant evil purposely racist agenda driven ones like Fox News.

I get madder I think at Fox News type stuff for whatever reason, because I feel they do it for legit evil reasons and there is a plan behind it rather than just individual dumb misguided reasons that an individual like Cowherd might have.

Although at a certain point, its splitting hairs I understand.
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Shadow Mod on July 24, 2015, 06:55:45 PM
I've hit some weird plateau where I'm just kind of annoyed at the whole giving a crap about how shitty a person is because now everybody knows it and you're associated with them.

I mean let's be real, can we be real.

People are't just racist, sexist, homophobic and transphobic jerks on these tapes.
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Rman on July 24, 2015, 07:01:48 PM
Dude has been saying borderline to blatant racist shit for YEARS and nothing has happened. Even in this case...we've known for awhile that he's moving to Fox Sports so this ESPN "ban" is meaningless.

So much of sports media revolves around white male resentment, especially today. Cowherd has one of the biggest platforms of anyone who perpetuates that shit. And it's always petty shit you can imagine someone defending in the typical "well he wasn't talking about the entire race/I can't stand politically correctness these days/etc" fashion.

When you boil his shit down to its core he's constantly talking shit and making broad generalizations about non white "culture." You hear it in his John Wall attacks, the Dominican stuff, etc.

Yep. Isn't the dude out of the door anyways?
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: brawndolicious on July 24, 2015, 07:07:58 PM
I've hit some weird plateau where I'm just kind of annoyed at the whole giving a crap about how shitty a person is because now everybody knows it and you're associated with them.

I mean let's be real, can we be real.

People are't just racist, sexist, homophobic and transphobic jerks on these tapes.

It's because idiots are able to quickly love the personality of a public figure they've never met. That's probably why stupid people think they have a good chance at acting/sports despite their lack of skill.

"I got an A in PE/Drama ma!"
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Rufus on July 24, 2015, 07:15:37 PM
People are't just racist, sexist, homophobic and transphobic jerks on these tapes.
People who want to talk stuff like this away as a "whoopsie" genuinely baffle me. Acting like they merely bumped into someone on the sidewalk isn't going to help.
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Himu on July 24, 2015, 07:17:10 PM
It was all an accident! can't you ignore this so I can go back to being racist?!
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Himu on July 24, 2015, 07:42:11 PM
2015 has taken Hulk Hogan and Bill Cosby. Who's next on the 80's innocence KILL-O-FEST? I'm fully expecting an announcement that Pat Benatar joined ISIS any moment now. Love Is a Battlefieeld indeed, Pat! We're onto you!!!!
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Van Cruncheon on July 25, 2015, 02:05:31 AM
worse. it's solid snake joining isis. gaf defense force in full effect, brehs. love blossoms on a battlefield indeed
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: benjipwns on July 25, 2015, 02:27:48 AM
2015 has taken Hulk Hogan and Bill Cosby. Who's next on the 80's innocence KILL-O-FEST? I'm fully expecting an announcement that Pat Benatar joined ISIS any moment now. Love Is a Battlefieeld indeed, Pat! We're onto you!!!!
Scott Baio endorsed Scott Walker.

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Though I guess he was a well known Republican and even got to sit next to Thatcher at Reagan's funeral. :lol

But it was news to me.
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Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Kara on July 25, 2015, 02:34:03 AM
worse. it's solid snake joining isis. gaf defense force in full effect, brehs. love blossoms on a battlefield indeed

"In my stomach," Sheikh Snake says before detonating his suicide bomb.
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Samson Manhug on July 25, 2015, 02:03:28 PM
Yesterday at work someone called a shoddy but quick fix "Afro-engineering" and my manager said, "What did you just say?"

I thought it was reprimand time but the guy repeated himself and my manager repeated him and burst out laughing.

(http://i.imgur.com/fxz2dn5.png)
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Van Cruncheon on July 25, 2015, 05:06:39 PM
^

i had a similar convo with my old man a couple years back.

<after using some zip ties and electrical tape to fix some bad wiring in their backup generator>

"welp, we jury-rigged that one" :whew

"dad, that doesn't mean anything." :goty2

"what?"  :larry

"'jury rigging' means to influence the outcome of some event so judgment falls in your favor. i think you meant to say something else." :ufup

" ... well, you get mad when i say 'n*gger-rigging'."  :heh

"yup, i'm mad."  :flabbypd
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Samson Manhug on July 25, 2015, 05:28:06 PM
Is jerry-rigged acceptable? I just looked it up and it seems it was first used in the 1950s (maybe when the more racist version became less acceptable?) and that it was probably a combination of jerry-built and jury-rigged.

Jerry-built means built hastily and was first used in the 19th century. Who is jerry? Is this racist toward German people or just some guy who was bad at building things?
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Van Cruncheon on July 25, 2015, 05:38:51 PM
yeah, he meant jerry-rigged but y'know, germans lol
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Madrun Badrun on July 25, 2015, 10:16:09 PM
I had never heard of jury rigged and always thought it was jerry rigged due to the Nazis being good at provisional field fixes.  The more I know.

 
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Van Cruncheon on July 25, 2015, 11:27:55 PM
thatsthejoke.gif
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: lennedsay on July 26, 2015, 09:42:13 AM
We use the term Polish Engineering at our house to refer to a quick, yet genius fix. Our friend is Polish, and his dad and him are always fixing shit with a quickness better than anything we could've come up with. They are both ridiculously smart.

People always think we are making "dumb Pollack" jokes though.
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: chronovore on August 04, 2015, 10:05:24 PM
I think my family used "jury rigged" instead of "jerry rigged" for my entire life. I've heard both and never noticed the difference until this thread.
(http://i.imgur.com/jqoeHZj.gif)
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Himu on August 04, 2015, 10:31:04 PM
All these jokes and stereotypes about black people you don't even know exist because of the shit white people say behind our behinds is :snoop
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 04, 2015, 11:05:05 PM
yeah, he meant jerry-rigged but y'know, germans lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_rigging

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Jury rigging refers to makeshift repairs or temporary contrivances, made with only the tools and materials that happen to be on hand, originally a nautical term. On sailing ships, a jury rig is a replacement mast and yards (which hold the ship's rigging) improvised in case of damage or loss of the original mast.

Prole owned, lrn2google.
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: bork on August 05, 2015, 09:56:48 AM
First The Hulkster, then I-Only-Have-Fame-Because-I'm-Ozzy's-Daughter.  Who's next!? :hyper

(http://legunaselitegamers.freeforums.org/images/smilies/hukster.png)(http://i.imgur.com/4CZHedn.png)
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Stoney Mason on August 25, 2015, 02:37:28 PM
Not fired unfortunately but temporarily taken off assignment.

(https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/FuJdYgVJw5oPiOx7WpJWNjdoPs8=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/3999208/Screen_Shot_2015-08-25_at_9.05.25_p.m.0.png)

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015/8/25/9206495/curt-schilling-tweets-deletes-awful-meme-comparing-muslims-to-nazis
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: bork on August 25, 2015, 02:50:19 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/i85HbLO.jpg)
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 25, 2015, 02:52:57 PM
I only played 7% of Kingdoms of Amalur before I got bored.
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 25, 2015, 04:05:33 PM
yeah, he meant jerry-rigged but y'know, germans lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_rigging

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Jury rigging refers to makeshift repairs or temporary contrivances, made with only the tools and materials that happen to be on hand, originally a nautical term. On sailing ships, a jury rig is a replacement mast and yards (which hold the ship's rigging) improvised in case of damage or loss of the original mast.

Prole owned, lrn2google.

god dammit, owned by a yokel pappy

education is for pussies. i'mma get drunk and get someone related to me preggo :dead
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Kara on August 25, 2015, 04:37:27 PM
I'm sure your SIL is willing to let bygones be bygones.
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 25, 2015, 08:53:09 PM
:dead :dead :dead

god DAMN it  :marimo
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Stoney Mason on August 31, 2015, 04:48:05 PM
http://www.tmz.com/2015/08/31/wwe-seth-rollins-girlfriend-nazi-pics-zahra-schreiber/

Another one bites the dust
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: studyguy on August 31, 2015, 05:20:48 PM
Is that a pony hitler?
Being a nazi doesn't even seem like the worst part of this chick.

(http://i.imgur.com/UMislbO.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/vlc3oMq.jpg)
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Shadow Mod on August 31, 2015, 05:23:31 PM
Those sound like two very bright eloquent open minded individuals.
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Phoenix Dark on August 31, 2015, 05:25:19 PM
Is that a pony hitler?
Being a nazi doesn't even seem like the worst part of this chick.

(http://i.imgur.com/UMislbO.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/vlc3oMq.jpg)

:dead

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Princess And The Frog was trash tho :hitler
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Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Trent Dole on September 01, 2015, 12:49:58 AM
Fascism is Magic!
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Stoney Mason on September 03, 2015, 07:12:16 PM
Not fired unfortunately but temporarily taken off assignment.

(https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/FuJdYgVJw5oPiOx7WpJWNjdoPs8=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/3999208/Screen_Shot_2015-08-25_at_9.05.25_p.m.0.png)

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015/8/25/9206495/curt-schilling-tweets-deletes-awful-meme-comparing-muslims-to-nazis

addendum:
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Update - ESPN Statement on Curt Schilling: “At all times during the course of their engagement with us, our commentators are directly linked to ESPN and are the face of our brand. We are a sports media company. Curt’s actions have not been consistent with his contractual obligations nor have they been professionally handled; they have obviously not reflected well on the company. As a result, he will not appear on ESPN through the remainder of the regular season and our Wild Card playoff game.”

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1snct9q
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Stoney Mason on April 20, 2016, 08:33:32 PM
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Richard DeitschVerified account
‏@richarddeitsch
Curt Schilling has been terminated by ESPN.

http://deadspin.com/espns-curt-schilling-shares-bigoted-anti-trans-meme-on-1771868863
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Rufus on April 20, 2016, 08:42:45 PM
Aw, he doubled down in the most boring way possible.
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Yeti on April 20, 2016, 09:03:00 PM
I really detest the argument of "Your intolerance of my bigotry makes YOU the REAL bigot!"
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Tasty on April 21, 2016, 03:59:30 PM
Curt Schilling Quietly Relieved He No Longer Needs To Censor Self For 3 Hours Once A Week (http://www.theonion.com/article/curt-schilling-quietly-relieved-he-no-longer-needs-52790)
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Stoney Mason on June 11, 2016, 10:38:31 AM
http://deadspin.com/sideline-reporter-gets-pretty-racist-on-barstool-sports-1781727626

Fired
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Stoney Mason on April 24, 2017, 03:03:45 PM
http://compete.kotaku.com/overwatch-pros-racist-tirade-ends-his-career-1794595720?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_facebook&utm_source=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow


I'm back!

I took a break from this thread since after electing a president who constantly says dumb racist things, it all seemed so moot...
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: zomgee on April 24, 2017, 03:36:00 PM
"Oh I only said that because I didn't think anyone was listening."

Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Stoney Mason on May 19, 2017, 12:26:47 PM
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/fox-news-bob-beckel-the-five-1202436839/

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Fox News Channel is parting ways – again – with Bob Beckel, the co-host of its primetime program, “The Five.”

“Bob Beckel was terminated today for making an insensitive remark to an African-American employee,” the network said in a statement.

Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Rufus on May 19, 2017, 12:44:29 PM
"Insensitive remark", meaning:
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Douglas Wigdor, an attorney who represents several current and former employees who have alleged racial discrimination at Fox News in a lawsuit, said he is representing the employee who complained about Beckel. In a statement, Wigdor alleged Beckel “stormed out of his office” when an African-American information-technology employee came to service his computer, “telling our client that he was leaving his office because he was black.”
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Madrun Badrun on May 19, 2017, 05:17:12 PM
:lol 

A black person in IT.  What is this, The West Wing?
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Stoney Mason on May 29, 2018, 03:21:25 PM
I know its in the tv thread but I just want to bump my old thread for good time sakes.

http://ew.com/tv/2018/05/29/abc-cancels-roseanne/
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Let's Cyber on May 29, 2018, 03:52:23 PM
 :ufup

It's gonna be sad to see right-wingers try to defend this
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muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj
"it was just a joke"
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Stoney Mason on May 29, 2018, 03:56:14 PM
Honestly I'm surprised that ABC actually showed some balls. I thought they would handwave it away via apology like all her other dog whistle stuff.
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: shosta on May 29, 2018, 04:03:31 PM
calling black people apes isn't a dog whistle, though
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Stoney Mason on May 29, 2018, 04:07:45 PM
calling black people apes isn't a dog whistle, though

It was just a joke though. Liberals don't get edgy comedians like her.
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: CatsCatsCats on May 29, 2018, 04:59:09 PM
I would say it would be hard to defend that after going so hard after Michelle Wolf, but working past cognitive dissonance is a first lesson in any good political cult
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Great Rumbler on May 29, 2018, 05:02:20 PM
Roseanne coming back 20~ years later, being super-popular, and then being cancelled after the first season because of a tweet feels like such an obvious plotline in retrospect.
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Nola on May 29, 2018, 05:05:00 PM
Honestly I'm surprised that ABC actually showed some balls. I thought they would handwave it away via apology like all her other dog whistle stuff.

I'm a bit cynical so I would suspect the straw that broke it all was simply the fact that writers started up and quitting, with more expected to follow, and there was a pretty swift mobilization of negative PR mounting.
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Post by: Stoney Mason on May 29, 2018, 05:05:03 PM
I like that the best family sitcom of the 80's and the best family sitcom of the 90's both retroactively got ruined because their stars were complete asshats.
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Post by: Stoney Mason on May 29, 2018, 05:06:59 PM
Honestly I'm surprised that ABC actually showed some balls. I thought they would handwave it away via apology like all her other dog whistle stuff.

I'm a bit cynical so I would suspect the straw that broke it all was simply the fact that writers started up and quitting, with more expected to follow, and there was a pretty swift mobilization of negative PR mounting.

Yeah I suppose. Not saying I'm unhappy about it. Just surprised me a little they were so quickly decisive.
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Post by: Mandark on May 29, 2018, 05:12:30 PM
Would watch a completely unrelated show starring John Goodman and Laurie Metcalf. Doesn't matter what the premise is.
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on May 29, 2018, 05:13:05 PM
Tbf the show itself wasn't super racist, it has roseanne defending a muslim family and a kid who's obviously not subscribing to gender norms. But as usual the revival wasn't very funny if at all and felt unnatural in most of it's acting and delivery. So can't say I'm sad to see it go.

Roseanne is crazy af and should probably get help but won't. What I'm wondering now if the peeps who greenlit bringing back Last Man Standing started having doubts.

Nah. Tim Allen is a drug dealing snitch, not a racist.
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Post by: thisismyusername on May 29, 2018, 05:13:43 PM
Honestly I'm surprised that ABC actually showed some balls. I thought they would handwave it away via apology like all her other dog whistle stuff.

I'm a bit cynical so I would suspect the straw that broke it all was simply the fact that writers started up and quitting, with more expected to follow, and there was a pretty swift mobilization of negative PR mounting.

Yeah I suppose. Not saying I'm unhappy about it. Just surprised me a little they were so quickly decisive.

I mean the first person that wanted to revival is Sarah Gilbert, not Roseanne herself. So... if the writers/staff are like "yeah, that's a bridge too far for me" the only one that loses a steady paycheck is Gilbert (well that and the rest of the cast/crew, but you know what I mean)
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Post by: Nola on May 29, 2018, 05:14:36 PM
I would say it would be hard to defend that after going so hard after Michelle Wolf, but working past cognitive dissonance is a first lesson in any good political cult
Or a business's right to restrict expression about silent protests during the national anthem.

Though honestly, even Fox News is calling her racist(though we shall see come the Hannity/Tucker hour).

The barrier on the Fox News right seems to be veiled comments that are at least narrowly open to interpretation. Then they can spin it and call the left the thought police for suggesting it is racist, then make it a whole rallying cause about free speech. Not much room for nuance left on this one.
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Post by: Stoney Mason on May 29, 2018, 05:14:56 PM
Tbf the show itself wasn't super racist, it has roseanne defending a muslim family and a kid who's obviously not subscribing to gender norms. But as usual the revival wasn't very funny if at all and felt unnatural in most of it's acting and delivery. So can't say I'm sad to see it go.

Roseanne is crazy af and should probably get help but won't. What I'm wondering now if the peeps who greenlit bringing back Last Man Standing started having doubts.

I liked the original show but I had zero interest in the reboot. Just wasn't gonna bother watching a show with her in the lead as her personae now would effect my ability to buy into whatever the show was trying to go for. I don't buy her defending muslims on the show when she spends her time on twitter attacking those same people. It all feels self serving and phony, and you can say that about a lot of hollywood but in this case, it felt too close to something real.
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Post by: Yeti on May 29, 2018, 06:50:46 PM
I like that the best family sitcom of the 80's and the best family sitcom of the 90's both retroactively got ruined because their stars were complete asshats.

Friends was ruined?  ???
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Post by: Stoney Mason on May 29, 2018, 07:16:02 PM
Roseanne ruined Seinfeld.
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Post by: seagrams hotsauce on May 29, 2018, 10:54:38 PM
I like that the best family sitcom of the 80's and the best family sitcom of the 90's both retroactively got ruined because their stars were complete asshats.

Friends was ruined?  ???

you can't ruin something that was never good
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Post by: I'm a Puppy! on May 29, 2018, 10:57:00 PM
Whenever I feel like a failure at my job I just think about how many people the production company had to fire because Roseanne was a racist bitch.
Now I don't feel so bad.
 :pitbull
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Post by: benjipwns on May 29, 2018, 11:11:17 PM
It's gonna be sad to see right-wingers try to defend this
It was just a joke though. Liberals don't get edgy comedians like her.
I would say it would be hard to defend that after going so hard after Michelle Wolf, but working past cognitive dissonance is a first lesson in any good political cult
Though honestly, even Fox News is calling her racist(though we shall see come the Hannity/Tucker hour).

The barrier on the Fox News right seems to be veiled comments that are at least narrowly open to interpretation. Then they can spin it and call the left the thought police for suggesting it is racist, then make it a whole rallying cause about free speech. Not much room for nuance left on this one.
I want to mention this because I also saw in posts in the dumpster thread from the Reset thread. And I don't want you guys getting trapped like they are because you're cool horsefuckers.

Roseanne's openly a Trump supporter (I think they may have some history as acquaintances/friends/circles/etc.), but she's not "right-wing" in any kind of traditional/Fox sense or even a Trumpian sense, she's a batshit crazy bankster's vaccines cause chemtrails that did 9/11 conspiracy leftist type. She ran for President with Cindy Sheehan as VP, on the Peace and Freedom Party line, and Sheehan called Barr totally unhinged when Sheehan bailed out of campaigning for the ticket because of it. And even though she supports him, after the revival was popular she was talking about running again and against him in 2020 anyway, especially because of his "betrayals" even though she supports him 100%.

The show version of Roseanne had to be written as a normal Trump supporter (whatever that means) otherwise the plots wouldn't work, they couldn't write Roseanne as actual Roseanne because nobody would believe it. ("Reality is unrealistic" trope and all that.)

TL;DR version: This way lies only madness.
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Post by: Assimilate on May 29, 2018, 11:42:50 PM
Rosanne will be on the Joe Rogan podcast friday! now this i gotta see  :paul
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Post by: nudemacusers on May 29, 2018, 11:47:34 PM



Oh joe. :sabu
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Post by: team filler on May 29, 2018, 11:53:06 PM
 :lol
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Post by: Kara on May 30, 2018, 12:13:29 AM
Part of the reason Roseanne got on the Peace and Freedom ticket in 2012 was a last gasp hurrah to stop it from becoming a PSL front organization. (For all their faults, PSL is quite good at taking over marginal left organizations.) It didn't have the intended effect of course and it's an L that just keeps on accruing interest with time, sort of like DSA's insistence on never having a national anything.

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Another reason was the PSL candidate that year was constitutionally ineligible. It kind of undermines your perennial scam as a ballot access rentier when you let that happen to your #brand.
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Post by: benjipwns on May 30, 2018, 12:21:34 AM
we're starting to approach some kind of singularity now

can't wait for Zizek v. Peterson v. Barr
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Post by: benjipwns on May 30, 2018, 12:31:55 AM
Part of the reason Roseanne got on the Peace and Freedom ticket in 2012 was a last gasp hurrah to stop it from becoming a PSL front organization. (For all their faults, PSL is quite good at taking over marginal left organizations.) It didn't have the intended effect of course and it's an L that just keeps on accruing interest with time, sort of like DSA's insistence on never having a national anything.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Another reason was the PSL candidate that year was constitutionally ineligible. It kind of undermines your perennial scam as a ballot access rentier when you let that happen to your #brand.
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This reminds me. The Socialist Party USA screwed up so badly that they're going to lose the Natural Law Party's ballot line completely in Michigan after a pretty awesome landgrab of it away from the Evan McMullin campaign in 2016. It's been on the ballot since 1992, even though the national party went defunct in 2004 and the Michigan version went defunct in 1998 and it was usually the Nader entryist ballot line. Thanks Mimi!

In part I think they seemed to be under the impression that the Socialist Party of Michigan actually exists because someone is running a Facebook page for it and the various campus organizations don't realize it doesn't exist so list it as a partner.

edit: though i see the webpage now lists an apartment in Detroit as the Party HQ, rather than the previous status where it listed a building that had been torn down 20 years ago
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Post by: Trent Dole on May 30, 2018, 01:52:47 AM
I like that the best family sitcom of the 80's and the best family sitcom of the 90's both retroactively got ruined because their stars were complete asshats.

Friends was ruined?  ???

you can't ruin something that was never good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0nOtTPPJnU
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on May 30, 2018, 11:32:55 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DebNmLkWAAEHiJ8.jpg:small)

https://twitter.com/SanofiUS/status/1001824999496404992
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Post by: benjipwns on May 30, 2018, 11:48:21 AM
I think I'll wait to hear from the FDA on that, Sanofi. :hmph
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Post by: Kara on May 30, 2018, 11:54:45 AM
Sanofi just promises a vaccine to children in periphery countries that actually puts them at more risk of contracting the illness if they've never had it before, they don't make racism pills.
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Post by: chronovore on May 30, 2018, 11:56:20 AM



Oh joe. :sabu

Fucker, fix your custom title, it is breaking my shit.
:iface
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Post by: MMaRsu on May 30, 2018, 12:17:48 PM
Jesus christ dude. Hateful cunts

Also why is Van Cruncheon banned  ???
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Post by: benjipwns on May 30, 2018, 12:21:35 PM
he knows what he did
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Post by: D3RANG3D on May 30, 2018, 12:23:24 PM
https://twitter.com/haniofan/status/1001718916077572096

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/drake-in-black-face.635909/
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Post by: Tasty on May 30, 2018, 12:26:31 PM



Oh joe. :sabu

Fucker, fix your custom title, it is breaking my shit.
:iface

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45627.0
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Post by: benjipwns on May 30, 2018, 12:27:11 PM
#WeTheNorth
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Post by: chronovore on May 30, 2018, 12:31:30 PM



Oh joe. :sabu

Fucker, fix your custom title, it is breaking my shit.
:iface

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45627.0

Yeah, no.

This is a community. He can adhere to community standards. He's choosing to do this to us. He can fix his shit.
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Post by: Tasty on May 30, 2018, 12:40:23 PM
This is a community in the same sense Lord of the Flies was a functioning society.
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Post by: benjipwns on May 30, 2018, 12:54:26 PM
who's piggy?
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Post by: Tasty on May 30, 2018, 12:56:15 PM
who's piggy?

etoilet.
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Post by: agrajag on May 30, 2018, 01:05:10 PM
Jack Remington is Jack?  :thinking
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Post by: Tasty on May 30, 2018, 01:06:22 PM
Jack Remington is Jack?  :thinking

Yes!
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Post by: CatsCatsCats on May 30, 2018, 01:15:44 PM
Tasty is the conch
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Post by: CatsCatsCats on May 30, 2018, 01:16:47 PM
Nothing to do with the allegory, just cuz we all wanna blow him
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Post by: Tasty on May 30, 2018, 01:18:01 PM
:phil Wrap your lips around me.
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Post by: Cerveza mas fina on May 31, 2018, 12:44:06 AM
(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/42/77/41/4277416451603e694338e8810f246c90.jpg)
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Post by: Oblivion on May 31, 2018, 03:17:38 AM
Hey, I was hating on Roseanne long before it was known that she was a piece of shit. :smug
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Post by: Oblivion on May 31, 2018, 03:19:22 AM
Seriously though, never liked her or the original series. My two ex-roommates loved it though, and considering they were both right-wingers, it probably makes sense.

No, the true GOAT Fox comedy series was Married With Children. And almost everyone involved in that show turned out to be great human beings.

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Post by: bork on May 31, 2018, 07:58:11 AM
Joe Rogan was talking about this and said that Roseanne told him she made those tweets while being 'high' on adderall and wasn't of sound mind or whatever.  Uh...right.  She also said that she thought the black lady she was making fun of was not black, but (white) Jewish.  I can actually see that based on a photo, but it was still a stupid joke that was obviously going to get her in hot water.  This Valerie Jarrett, btw-
(https://pmctvline2.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/valerie-jarrett.jpg)
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Post by: ToxicAdam on May 31, 2018, 08:14:24 AM
Roseanne isn't of sound mind when she is not taking drugs. I think people have forgotten that since she has been out of the public eye for so long.

She legit has multiple-personality disorder. That doesn't make her above reproach for the things she typed, but it should be the baseline you start at when you consider this thing.

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Post by: bork on May 31, 2018, 08:20:25 AM
Here's the clip- it wasn't adderall, it was ambien.  She said she "needed to adjust her meds."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhxV90u-xME
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Post by: agrajag on May 31, 2018, 10:30:38 AM
Yeah cause she's so lucid when she's not taking ambien rite
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Post by: studyguy on May 31, 2018, 11:12:18 AM
Yall knew the rest of the cast was looking at this woman like  :kobeyuck
Just waiting for the day she'd fuck that check up for them.

Only person that high profile who got their show thrown off syndication and lost those checks last was Cosby and that mf raped women so welcome to the club.

 :umad
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Post by: samfish on May 31, 2018, 12:53:15 PM
I would like to hear Roseanne’s thoughts about Cosby, now that I think about it. 
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Post by: D3RANG3D on May 31, 2018, 12:56:30 PM
https://www.theroot.com/for-white-people-who-pretend-to-not-understand-what-rac-1826427170
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Post by: bork on May 31, 2018, 01:12:26 PM
Yeah cause she's so lucid when she's not taking ambien rite

Don't believe that shit for a second, but I can believe Roseanne didn't think she was black. 
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Post by: bork on May 31, 2018, 01:15:08 PM
https://www.theroot.com/for-white-people-who-pretend-to-not-understand-what-rac-1826427170

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First of all, The Root is not going to fire me for voicing my own opinion on my own Twitter account that actually includes a disclaimer that tells you that even though I write for The Root, my tweets are my own opinions and have nothing to do with my employer.

OK, so by that logic, shouldn't this lady be on Roseanne's side?
:neogaf
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Post by: kingv on May 31, 2018, 01:19:00 PM
Roseanne isn't of sound mind when she is not taking drugs. I think people have forgotten that since she has been out of the public eye for so long.

She legit has multiple-personality disorder. That doesn't make her above reproach for the things she typed, but it should be the baseline you start at when you consider this thing.


Anyone can read her twitter for about 5 minutes and realize she is goddamned insane. It really makes me wonder how much she was involved with the scripting of her own show.

Since tweeting about Valerie Jarret, she has claimed Soros was a Nazi and that her show and firing was part of a WAnon #settingthestage action to arrest Valerie Jarrett.

She is right about one thing though. Joy Reid should be fired too.

Edit: also I don’t get why it makes sense to call him a porch monkey? If she said he was cooning or something it would at least make sense
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Post by: Yeti on May 31, 2018, 03:23:58 PM
(https://www.tvinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/roseanne-cosby-tv-guide-cover.jpg)
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Post by: benjipwns on May 31, 2018, 03:52:09 PM
oh man i remember the tv guides with the fall preview being these epic like events since it was one of the only places you could actually find out about the new shows, i assume that's from the other half where they told you about all the stuff happening with the returning shows

we never got that one from the grocery store checkout line, just the new show one

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FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY
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Post by: Stoney Mason on June 01, 2018, 07:06:03 AM
Seriously though, never liked her or the original series. My two ex-roommates loved it though, and considering they were both right-wingers, it probably makes sense.

The thing is the original show wasn't right wing in that way. In fact it was the last bastion of a sort of white democratic slightly liberal philosophy that existed in the mid-west. It was pro-gay rights, pro-union. anticorporatist. The Roseanne show of that time period would have been completely anti-Trump just as it was anti-George Bush Sr at the time. The original show would have seen Trump as the con-man he is.

The fact that she become what she became is more indicative of what happened to a certain demographic of white person from that time period as they got older, more embittered, and society changed.
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Post by: Stoney Mason on June 22, 2018, 07:40:06 PM
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/jonathan-friedland-exits-netflix-1122675


(https://cdn1.thr.com/sites/default/files/2018/06/screen_shot_2018-06-22_at_1.14.50_pm_copy-embed_2018.jpg)
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Post by: Nintex on June 22, 2018, 07:55:47 PM
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I fell short of that standard when I was insensitive in speaking to my team about words that offend in comedy.
"This is an offensive word guys, don't use it"
"OMG he said the word!!!"

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Three months later he spoke to a meeting of our Black Employees @ Netflix group and did not bring it up, which was understood by many in the meeting to mean he didn’t care and didn’t accept accountability for his words.
Why isn't he dragging up this terrible thing he said to offend more people so we can fire him?

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this time Jonathan said the N-word again to two of our Black employees in HR who were trying to help him deal with the original offense.
THANK GOD we can fire him now.  :hyper

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As I reflect on this, at this first incident, I should have done more to use it as a learning moment for everyone at Netflix about how painful and ugly that word is, and that it should not be used. I realize that my privilege has made me intellectualize or otherwise minimize race issues like this. I need to set a better example by learning and listening more so I can be the leader we need.
NOT A CULT NOT A CULT NOT A CULT


Coming from the same company that had Spacey harass an entire film set.  :idont
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Post by: bork on June 22, 2018, 08:28:00 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/t9WPR65.png)(https://i.imgur.com/t9WPR65.png)(https://i.imgur.com/t9WPR65.png)(https://i.imgur.com/t9WPR65.png)(https://i.imgur.com/t9WPR65.png)(https://i.imgur.com/t9WPR65.png)
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Post by: Tasty on June 22, 2018, 08:44:41 PM
Nintex is mentally challenged.
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Post by: Mandark on June 22, 2018, 09:18:32 PM
"Descriptive use" sure makes it sound like he was directing the N-word at black people as a slur, rather than quoting someone of fucking up in some other semi-innocuous way. The HR language of sensitivity and awareness winds up rhetorically softening what he did.

"He was so openly racist that he kept calling black employees the N-word even after we talked to him about it. Which is really dumb to boot. So we fired him, obviously."
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Post by: Stoney Mason on July 11, 2018, 11:50:09 PM
White people just can't resist it. It's like the ultimate secret desire.

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Papa John’s International, Inc. (NASDAQ: PZZA)today announced that the independent directors of the company have accepted the resignation of John H. Schnatter as Chairman of the Board.

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John Schnatter—the founder, chairman and public face of pizza chain Papa John’s—used the N-word on a conference call in May, a source with knowledge of the event told Forbes.

The call was arranged between Papa John’s executives and marketing agency Laundry Service. It was designed as a role-playing exercise for Schnatter in an effort to prevent future public-relations snafus. Schnatter caused an uproar in November 2017 when he waded into the debate over national anthem protests in the NFL and partly blamed the league for slowing sales at Papa John's.

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Schnatter also reflected on his early life in Indiana, where, he said, people used to drag African Americans from trucks until they died. He apparently intended for the remarks to convey his antipathy to racism, but multiple individuals on the call found them to be offensive, the source said

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/papa-johns-pizza-founder-john-schnatter-racial-slur-n-word/
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Post by: shosta on July 11, 2018, 11:51:39 PM
is that whole story real
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Post by: benjipwns on July 11, 2018, 11:55:25 PM
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On the May call, Schnatter reportedly said the N-word while complaining that a legendary fast-food chain founder had used the word in the past without being subjected to public backlash
I bet it was Colonel Sanders. Come on, we all know he was probably talking about the Colonel.
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Post by: Kara on July 12, 2018, 12:00:38 AM
He was.
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Post by: benjipwns on July 12, 2018, 12:02:37 AM
oh god i didn't even look for another story :lol
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Post by: benjipwns on July 12, 2018, 12:03:03 AM
https://twitter.com/ChinaJoeFlynn/status/1017255568392810496
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on July 12, 2018, 12:06:00 AM
Wait, when is Slav season?
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Post by: Kara on July 12, 2018, 12:11:58 AM
oh god i didn't even look for another story :lol

You dox, I gather OSINT. :putin
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Post by: Mandark on July 12, 2018, 12:12:52 AM
Really digging this trend of executives saying the n-word in meetings that have been arranged specifically to help them avoid PR fuckups.
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Post by: Stoney Mason on July 16, 2018, 03:46:17 PM
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A special committee of the board of directors met on Sunday to discuss its founder John Schnatter, who resigned his chairmanship last week after making racist comments. The board decided to kick him out of his office at Papa John's headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky.

Papa John's (PZZA) also announced that Schnatter will "cease all media appearances, and not make any further statements to the media regarding the company, its business or employees," the company said in a statement. Papa John's announced Friday it would remove Schnatter's image from its marketing materials.

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Schnatter remains on the board and still owns 30% of the company's shares.


https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/16/news/companies/papa-johns-office/index.html
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Post by: ToxicAdam on July 16, 2018, 03:53:18 PM
When the board of directors has to meet on a Sunday, you know you're fucked.

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Post by: thisismyusername on July 16, 2018, 05:16:01 PM
I'm guessing the next step for the board is trying to buy out his 30%. Dude's already loaded, so he could just let the shares go.
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Post by: shosta on July 16, 2018, 07:30:24 PM
Rename it to Papa Schattner's
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Post by: benjipwns on July 16, 2018, 08:00:30 PM
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Papa John's (PZZA)
i love when companies do this
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Post by: Brehvolution on July 17, 2018, 09:34:29 AM
You know PJ is raging everyday about this because he didn't do anything wrong and it's the PC police's fault. He's the real victim here.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on July 17, 2018, 10:53:35 AM
I think Colonel Sanders should have to step down as well.
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Post by: Tasty on July 20, 2018, 09:40:46 AM
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/paramount-tv-president-amy-powell-fired-inappropriate-comments-1128620

What is happening with conference calls these days, lol.
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Post by: Tasty on July 20, 2018, 03:45:15 PM
https://deadline.com/2018/07/james-gunn-fired-guardians-of-the-galaxy-disney-offensive-tweets-1202430392/

Well shit.
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Post by: Mandark on July 20, 2018, 03:51:23 PM
At this point I'm surprised that these companies don't have someone in PR making sure everyone scrubs their old edgelord Twitter history.
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Post by: Tasty on July 20, 2018, 03:54:47 PM
2008-2009 is a lifetime ago. I was in fucking high school back then.

This might be the first time I break with the larger progressive community on this stuff -- his firing was uncalled for. I get the feeling he's a sacrificial lamb for the left though, a way of showing conservatives they don't take sides when it comes to controversial statements.
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Post by: Tasty on July 20, 2018, 03:55:43 PM
Jay Bauman probably won't be a happy camper, though this might mean Gunn will go back to his roots which he might enjoy even more. :thinking
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Post by: Flannel Boy on July 20, 2018, 03:59:26 PM
(http://stratogia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/shocked-Shocked-I-tell-you1.jpg)
I am shocked—shocked—to find that jokes are going on in here!

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Post by: Tasty on July 20, 2018, 04:00:13 PM
James Gunn did Nazi this coming.
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Post by: Flannel Boy on July 20, 2018, 04:01:08 PM
James Gunn did Nazi this coming.
*reported to your employer.
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Post by: Steve Contra on July 20, 2018, 04:02:31 PM
Eh, you get fired for shit like when you're in a very public role. It's the type of thing that makes it impossible to do interviews. What if Zoe Saldana, mother of three, was getting interviewed during Guardians of the Galaxy press tour and someone is like, hey let me read you some tweets of the director of this film for a children's entertainment company wrote joking about raping kids. There's no way to contain that shit.
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Post by: Tasty on July 20, 2018, 04:03:55 PM
I dunno, I mean Fantastic Beasts is sticking with Depp despite all this shit surrounding him, and that's essentially another kids'/teens' franchise.
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Post by: Nola on July 20, 2018, 04:08:44 PM
2008-2009 is a lifetime ago. I was in fucking high school back then.

This might be the first time I break with the larger progressive community on this stuff -- his firing was uncalled for. I get the feeling he's a sacrificial lamb for the left though, a way of showing conservatives they don't take sides when it comes to controversial statements.

Mostly I see it as Marvel covering their ass.

Though I do think in general it's a silly thing to build a social code that basically robs from consideration possible context and moral development and treats things people said 5, 10, 15 years ago as if they automatically represent their beliefs today and should be judged by today's standards. Sometimes that is the case and sometimes it's not, and that should be a major hinge in the process of that judgement, as there is a reason behavior and context is a pivotal component of sentencing, charges, and duration.

Of course people and companies aren't going to act like that so maybe just don't say dumb shit on public forums with your identity attached, especially when you have a public facing job that garners notoriety and scrutiny?



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Post by: seagrams hotsauce on July 20, 2018, 04:10:03 PM
welp, i guess we were the assholes after all for dunking on Gary Whitta when he sanitized his Neogaf post history
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Post by: Mandark on July 20, 2018, 04:12:40 PM
2008-2009 is a lifetime ago. I was in fucking high school back then.

Gunn was in his 40's.

I get that he was going for transgressive humor, that he was speaking to a much different and narrower audience back then, and basically got fucked over by context collapse. But if you're going to be a very publicly visible creator as well as the steward of a nine figure investment by a major corporation, and you leave those tweets up? Gotta charge that to the game.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on July 20, 2018, 04:15:32 PM
At this point I'm surprised that these companies don't have someone in PR making sure everyone scrubs their old edgelord Twitter history.

It really blows my mind that there are people who became famous [or more famous] in the past few years who haven't gone back and completely scrubbed their early social media posts off the face of the earth.
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Post by: Tasty on July 20, 2018, 04:17:44 PM
2008-2009 is a lifetime ago. I was in fucking high school back then.

Gunn was in his 40's.

I get that he was going for transgressive humor, that he was speaking to a much different and narrower audience back then, and basically got fucked over by context collapse. But if you're going to be a very publicly visible creator as well as the steward of a nine figure investment by a major corporation, and you leave those tweets up? Gotta charge that to the game.

You're correct of course. TBH I've been thinking of making my current Twitter private, moving it to a different username, and starting a new account in its place.

I'm 99% sure I've never said anything that inflammatory, but who knows what the future will judge as outrageous.
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Post by: Mandark on July 20, 2018, 04:18:22 PM
At this point I'm surprised that these companies don't have someone in PR making sure everyone scrubs their old edgelord Twitter history.

It really blows my mind that there are people who became famous [or more famous] in the past few years who haven't gone back and completely scrubbed their early social media posts off the face of the earth.

People who have a manager! And an agent! And a publicist! Who work for or with companies that have marketing and PR staff!
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Post by: Tasty on July 20, 2018, 04:19:08 PM
Also, even if Gunn deleted the tweets years ago, who knows what's available on aggregators? I'm 100% sure Disney would still have fired him today even if he deleted the tweets as soon as he joined the first GotG, because the same conservatives would still have found the tweets somehow, and it is something he said at some time.
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Post by: Steve Contra on July 20, 2018, 04:20:40 PM
I dunno, I mean Fantastic Beasts is sticking with Depp despite all this shit surrounding him, and that's essentially another kids'/teens' franchise.
Warner Brother's isn't Disney for one thing, they're the company that made Batman v. Superman, the contact with Depp is probably crushing if they can him, and I fucking guarantee they're regretting sticking with him at this point (also from a pr point it sounded like Amber Heard wanted her privacy protected about this, which means any journalist/interviewer that wants a gotcha moment during is going to have to toss her under the bus as well, not the case with Gunn).
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Post by: Mandark on July 20, 2018, 04:21:35 PM
I'm 99% sure I've never said anything that inflammatory, but who knows what the future will judge as outrageous.

"A shock development in the race for county executive as the heavy favorite Andrex Q. Meat withdrew from the race today, following revelations about old tweets containing controversial, and some say offensive, statements on smartphone operating systems and 'sucking dick from the back.'"
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on July 20, 2018, 04:21:39 PM
Rule of thumb should be to prune anything over a year old on your social media. Famous people should also just create an anonymous accounts if they want to be edgelords.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on July 20, 2018, 04:22:22 PM
He should have to change his name to James Wizardd also.
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Post by: agrajag on July 20, 2018, 04:25:34 PM
Also, even if Gunn deleted the tweets years ago, who knows what's available on aggregators? I'm 100% sure Disney would still have fired him today even if he deleted the tweets as soon as he joined the first GotG, because the same conservatives would still have found the tweets somehow, and it is something he said at some time.

I'm 100% sure Disney knew about those tweets and didn't care as long as no one raised a stink about it and he kept making them money.
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Post by: benjipwns on July 20, 2018, 04:27:32 PM
"A shock development in the race for county executive as the heavy favorite Andrex Q. Meat withdrew from the race today, following revelations about old tweets containing controversial, and some say offensive, statements on smartphone operating systems and 'sucking dick from the back.'"
last part will be a boon, what with the crisis that men will be in due to the unstoppable march of stuck up bitches conditioned by the feminazi's, plus they'll all be doing steroids and working out with other dudes and one thing leads to another...
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Post by: Mandark on July 20, 2018, 04:27:53 PM
If Gunn had deleted them back when he took on GotG, they could release a statement about how he used to go for shock humor, realized years ago how hurtful it was to other people, etc. Maybe they still cut bait, but it's a better shot than leaving it up for sure.

One thing that bothers me is that people absolutely went digging cause of how he was talking about Trump and they were looking for a scalp. So it's basically the sort of vindictive, feigned outrage that those people imagine all of #metoo is, and it just got rewarded.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on July 20, 2018, 04:30:48 PM
Quote from: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/roseanne-barr-screams-about-valerie-jarrett-i-thought-the-bitch-was-white
When the video begins, Roseanne Barr is talking to an off-camera producer who’s encouraging her to speak like she’s giving a presidential address. She seems to have a hard time understanding him and keeps dropping her head into her hands.

“I’m trying to talk about Iran,” she says loudly to the producer. “I’m trying to talk about Valerie Jarrett wrote the Iran Deal. That’s what my tweet was about.”

“I know,” he responds. “You’ve explained this literally 300 times.”

“I thought the bitch was white!” Barr screams. “Goddamnit! I thought the bitch was white! Fuck!”

She then takes a drag on her cigarette and looks offscreen.

:idont
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Post by: Huff on July 20, 2018, 04:31:06 PM
Even I went back and mass wiped my twitter after college after re-reading some of the things written while blackout

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Post by: Tasty on July 20, 2018, 04:31:34 PM
He should have to change his name to James Wizardd also.

You mean James Squirtgunn. (https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/25/17278902/google-dumping-pistol-emoji-watergun-microsoft)
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Post by: paprikastaude on July 20, 2018, 04:36:04 PM
Eh, you get fired for shit like when you're in a very public role. It's the type of thing that makes it impossible to do interviews. What if Zoe Saldana, mother of three, was getting interviewed during Guardians of the Galaxy press tour and someone is like, hey let me read you some tweets of the director of this film for a children's entertainment company wrote joking about raping kids. There's no way to contain that shit.

This would make sense if it wasn't 7 year old posts. All this time these posts were there when they made the movies and contracted him. It's absurd that it's only a problem now that someone randomly decided that this was worth remembering.
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Post by: Huff on July 20, 2018, 04:36:25 PM
has anyone checked on arvie to see if hes okay
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Post by: Tasty on July 20, 2018, 04:38:59 PM
Eh, you get fired for shit like when you're in a very public role. It's the type of thing that makes it impossible to do interviews. What if Zoe Saldana, mother of three, was getting interviewed during Guardians of the Galaxy press tour and someone is like, hey let me read you some tweets of the director of this film for a children's entertainment company wrote joking about raping kids. There's no way to contain that shit.

This would make sense if it wasn't 7 year old posts. All this time these posts were there when they made the movies and contracted him. It's absurd that it's only a problem now that someone randomly decided that this was worth remembering.

It also makes Disney look like a bunch of idiots.
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Post by: nachobro on July 20, 2018, 04:39:19 PM
the biggest surprise is that gunn was hired by disney in the first place
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Post by: Steve Contra on July 20, 2018, 04:43:03 PM
Eh, you get fired for shit like when you're in a very public role. It's the type of thing that makes it impossible to do interviews. What if Zoe Saldana, mother of three, was getting interviewed during Guardians of the Galaxy press tour and someone is like, hey let me read you some tweets of the director of this film for a children's entertainment company wrote joking about raping kids. There's no way to contain that shit.

This would make sense if it wasn't 7 year old posts. All this time these posts were there when they made the movies and contracted him. It's absurd that it's only a problem now that someone randomly decided that this was worth remembering.
You're missing my point. It's a problem for Disney because someone did remember them and now Gunn is linked with them and it would have been brought up over and over again. I'm sure someone at Disney knew about them and didn't care because no one else was paying attention, but now that it's very public and thrown in their face they have to respond.
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Post by: benjipwns on July 20, 2018, 04:48:57 PM
just remember Tasty, you (and all archives) were hacked, you couldn't have made those posts at that time, and you've turned it over to the FBI for investigation
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Post by: Tasty on July 20, 2018, 04:51:22 PM
just remember Tasty, you (and all archives) were hacked, you couldn't have made those posts at that time, and you've turned it over to the FBI for investigation

Unfortunately with all your doxxing, you'd likely be the prime suspect. Sorry benji. :(
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Post by: Kara on July 20, 2018, 04:54:44 PM
Never using Twitter under my legal name. :aah
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Post by: agrajag on July 20, 2018, 05:00:23 PM
Not having a Twitter account  :aah
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Post by: Joe Molotov on July 20, 2018, 07:04:41 PM
Not having a legal name so you can’t be forced to pay taxes by the US Admiralty Court.  :aah
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Post by: Steve Contra on July 20, 2018, 07:09:04 PM
Being a stateless AI housed on a libertarian utopia abandoned oil rig  :aah
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Post by: Tasty on July 20, 2018, 07:11:06 PM
All of reality being an elaborate simulation and none of this shit mattering at all :aah
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Post by: benjipwns on July 20, 2018, 09:19:44 PM
Never using Twitter under my legal name. :aah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7SPaXiCKk8
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Post by: Huff on July 20, 2018, 10:37:35 PM
Paying all my taxes and living as a functioning adult with student loans piling up  :aah
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Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on July 20, 2018, 10:55:34 PM
The Golden Rule of the Internet: Everything you post is public
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Post by: chronovore on July 21, 2018, 12:20:14 AM
the biggest surprise is that gunn was hired by disney in the first place

Yeah, he was in some pretty oddball stuff. Didn't he act as Satan in a series of SFW "porno" short films?
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Post by: nachobro on July 21, 2018, 01:02:27 AM
He did the PG Porn series but I don't remember him playing Satan in that, but he did play Linus in the Peanuts episode. :lol Also his debut film as a writer had a woman turn into a monster with a three foot penis and then have a happy ending where she marries her brother and gives birth to a bunch of inbred childen.

iirc he also wrote that dawn of the dead remake, zack snyder's only good movie
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Post by: chronovore on July 21, 2018, 01:31:58 AM
He did the PG Porn series but I don't remember him playing Satan in that, but he did play Linus in the Peanuts episode. :lol Also his debut film as a writer had a woman turn into a monster with a three foot penis and then have a happy ending where she marries her brother and gives birth to a bunch of inbred childen.

iirc he also wrote that dawn of the dead remake, zack snyder's only good movie
:respect
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Post by: TVC15 on July 21, 2018, 03:57:37 PM
I don’t care what anyone says: I liked the Giving Tree tweet.
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Post by: TVC15 on July 21, 2018, 04:16:04 PM
Also, in the end, this could be the best thing.  Lloyd Kaufmann is set to start shooting Shakespeare’s Shitstorm in a couple months. May as well get the Tromeo and Juliette crew back together.
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Post by: paprikastaude on July 22, 2018, 08:55:11 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvrA0ydf8y8
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Post by: chronovore on July 22, 2018, 10:10:50 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvrA0ydf8y8
https://twitter.com/TheKevinRubio/status/1021152767409209344
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Post by: agrajag on July 22, 2018, 10:18:27 PM
I don’t care what anyone says: I liked the Giving Tree tweet.

This is why you could never be a high profile director of Disney Marvel artfilms.
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Post by: Tasty on July 23, 2018, 01:10:53 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvrA0ydf8y8
https://twitter.com/TheKevinRubio/status/1021152767409209344

(https://i.redditmedia.com/evbi7ZMxBnceQ3SkmwQMZ45C5Yw6DGhHqtZyFW2HZJQ.jpg?fit=crop&crop=faces%2Centropy&arh=2&w=640&s=3e86aa9a1a39b31b7f37baaaa88a3c11)
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Post by: benjipwns on July 27, 2018, 05:19:09 AM
https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/26/news/companies/papa-johns-lawsuit-john-schnatter/index.html
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Papa John sues Papa John's

John Schnatter, the ousted founder of pizza chain Papa John's, is suing his former company.

In a lawsuit filed in Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday, Schnatter's lawyers say he is seeking to inspect company documents "because of the unexplained and heavy-handed way in which the company has treated him since the publication of a story that falsely accused him of using a racial slur."

Papa John's denied Schnatter's claims in a statement. The company said it was "saddened and disappointed" by the lawsuit, which it called "needless and wasteful."
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Post by: Brehvolution on July 27, 2018, 10:55:59 AM
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The company said it was "saddened and disappointed" by the lawsuit, which it called "needless and wasteful."

Just like Papa John's pizza.  :dice
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Post by: Stoney Mason on October 26, 2018, 05:03:14 PM
Haven't done one of these in awhile not because there aren't plenty to pull from but because I don't post as much as I use to.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/26/media/megyn-kelly-nbc-show-canceled/index.html


This was easy money this jackass would eventually shutter her job at a place less tolerant of her bigotry than fox news.
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Post by: Nintex on October 26, 2018, 05:39:09 PM
Megyn played it smart. She got the big bucks and early retirement.
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Post by: shosta on October 26, 2018, 05:51:06 PM
I didn't even hear about this so I had to look it up

"Because you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface on Halloween, or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween. Back when I was a kid that was OK, as long as you were dressing up as, like, a character."

lmfaooooooo bye felicia. didn't expect anything less from a woman whose kids are named thatcher, yardley, and yates
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 26, 2018, 05:54:50 PM
a woman whose kids are named thatcher, yardley, and yates

:cac
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Post by: Yeti on October 26, 2018, 06:02:16 PM
She should have named them Thatchyr, Yardlyy and Yatys.
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Post by: Nintex on October 27, 2018, 02:46:26 PM
He won't get fired but  :mindblown
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1056254600121147392 (https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1056254600121147392)
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Post by: thisismyusername on October 27, 2018, 03:34:56 PM
I see he's back on the coke.
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Post by: benjipwns on October 27, 2018, 11:55:11 PM
How would you tell from that tweet compared to his normal state?

He won't get fired because he already "amicably parted" from the cryptocurrency company that hired him as PR CEO.
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Post by: benjipwns on October 27, 2018, 11:57:17 PM
Oh wait, he's signed up for a new one: https://luxcore.io/team

lol at these names
Quote
216K155
CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER & CORE DEVELOPER , LUXCORE CO-FOUNDER

COSMIN TUDOR
GROWTH OFFICER & PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

This is 126K155:
(https://luxcore.io/images/team/216k155.jpg)

This dude named, of course, Sebastian, actually literally did this in his:
(https://luxcore.io/images/team/sebastianberger.jpg)
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Post by: agrajag on October 27, 2018, 11:58:58 PM
 :dead

One day I want to wake up to a Tweet saying that Atra has launched an ICO.
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 28, 2018, 12:00:34 AM
One day I want to wake up to a Tweet saying that Atra has launched an ICBM
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 28, 2018, 12:01:29 AM
BM stands for bowel movement. 
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Post by: agrajag on October 28, 2018, 12:02:59 AM
that's more of TVC's wheelhouse
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 28, 2018, 12:03:04 AM
Like 99 red balloons but with shit instead of 99 red balloons. 
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Post by: benjipwns on October 28, 2018, 12:05:01 AM
At the one Libertarian Party debate/event in 2016, McAfee admitted he doesn't know how much money he has or where it's invested. :lol

His coming back from obscurity to share his insanity with the world again after that whole murder charge, double heart attacks, fugitive situation was really the ideal career move.
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Post by: Kara on October 28, 2018, 12:06:26 AM
A lot of bourgeois don't know how much money they have or where it's invested.
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Post by: Himu on October 28, 2018, 12:10:09 AM
Wtf at that McAfee tweet

And I don’t know any black kid who painted themself white as kids for Halloween Megyn. We dealt with it and wore costumes of characters we liked. We knew we weren’t the same race but that was secondary to the character for us. It’s almost like black children have to be mature and developed on race than white adults. I wonder why? Must be because of 60’s war on poverty programs, ain’t that right Megyn?
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Post by: benjipwns on October 28, 2018, 12:11:18 AM
How dare you reduce John McAfee to merely bourgeois. Marx's fourth part of Capital would have been about an entirely separate class for the McAfee/Larry Ellison type.
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Post by: benjipwns on October 28, 2018, 12:12:50 AM
I do think he's said he's put money into nearly every cryptocurrency that comes along and never pulled it out. And never will because that's how THEY get you!

His 2020 platform is supposed to be about replacing the Fed with a cryptocurrency.
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Post by: benjipwns on October 28, 2018, 12:15:05 AM
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1003609544537321473

 :rejoice
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: shosta on October 28, 2018, 12:15:11 AM
presumably "they" are the same people who tried to poison him, glad he's safe
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Kara on October 28, 2018, 12:16:24 AM
How dare you reduce John McAfee to merely bourgeois. Marx's fourth part of Capital would have been about an entirely separate class for the McAfee/Larry Ellison type.

If there's one thing that didn't exist in Marx's day it's bourgeois who could kill people with impunity.
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Post by: Himu on October 28, 2018, 12:16:51 AM
Why is mcafee so nuts
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Post by: shosta on October 28, 2018, 12:19:57 AM
discovered eldritch knowledge on the searchers' trail between delhi and nepal
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: benjipwns on October 28, 2018, 12:20:01 AM
John McAfee's life is probably how Eugene Kapersky wishes he could be living his, except for that whole FSB watchdog ex-wife and five kids crap.
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Post by: benjipwns on October 28, 2018, 12:23:05 AM
Quote
[Natalya Kaspersky] believes that all personal data, such as search history, geolocation, contacts, correspondence, photo and video materials, should belong to the State.
:delicious
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Post by: agrajag on October 28, 2018, 12:24:19 AM
when I bought my last laptop best buy threw in a free kaspersky package on CD, I never opened it

 :nope
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: shosta on October 28, 2018, 12:25:35 AM
I used to run Avast and Kaspersky simultaneously.

LetThemFight
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: benjipwns on October 28, 2018, 12:29:24 AM
wait, maybe it's his current wife that's rumored to be the FSB watchdog, the ex bought herself out of the company in 2011

heck, they're probably both FSB amirite

and his "security team" is FSB preventing him from escaping
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: benjipwns on October 28, 2018, 12:33:20 AM
i've been installing ubuntu on my laptops since 2006-ish

i don't think i've truly run an anti-virus on my desktop since Windows 98...if you don't count Windows Defender...i have clamwin installed for the occasional times i want to scan some sketchy looking thing i copyright infringed from a website half in russian

to bring this back to McAfee, he's been telling people to uninstall McAfee, as it's garbage, since the late 90s (he sold it in 1994)...Intel didn't finally rename it until 2014 after that whole murder, fugitive, faking heart attacks, etc. episode...he'd been asking them for years to rename it
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: agrajag on October 28, 2018, 12:36:52 AM
malwarebytes and adaware are the last ones I used
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Post by: benjipwns on October 28, 2018, 12:38:53 AM
oh, i probably used anti-spamware/adware/etc. well into the Vista era, always figured that was a different situation, then the browsers made themselves secure against all that

i think the only time i've ever found anything but cookies on any of my PCs was once and it was a sketchy thing i had downloaded off the KaZaA
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Post by: agrajag on October 28, 2018, 12:47:26 AM
I used to get some nasty bugs from kazaa and the likes, such as trojans that fucked with system registry. A free little tool called hijackthis was great for dealing with those.
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: shosta on October 28, 2018, 12:49:04 AM
i've been installing ubuntu on my laptops since 2006-ish
the dark age of linux when you had to make sure all the components of the computer you bought had drivers before you bought it
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Mandark on October 28, 2018, 12:52:59 AM
I'm probably the millionth person to say this, but Megyn Kelly blithely defending blackface after she acted super indignant about black mall Santas is pretty precious.
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Post by: benjipwns on October 28, 2018, 12:55:42 AM
talking about Kapersky's FSB watchdogs reminded me of a Tetris related story, but I thought that was going way too off topic (even more so than I had) for here so I stuck it in the Random Gaming Thread: http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=33514.msg2521030#msg2521030
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: agrajag on October 28, 2018, 12:59:44 AM
the backwards R in Tetris serves the function of the letter 'Y' in Russian alphabet, making little phonetic sense.
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Post by: Kara on October 28, 2018, 01:03:25 AM
When you learn how to read Cyrillic faux Cyrillic becomes quite nonsensical.
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Post by: agrajag on October 28, 2018, 01:09:52 AM
The P = R and the Y = U always throws people for a loop
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: shosta on October 28, 2018, 01:11:44 AM
I never could figure out how to pronounce ы
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: agrajag on October 28, 2018, 01:16:58 AM
I never could figure out how to pronounce ы

Like a cross between an oo and an ee sound. I'm trying to thing of an English word that replicates that sound, but I can't come up with anything. Maybe the i in bih. Or the i in mobil (the UK style).

Ok, here you go:

https://youtu.be/Gxd-wZfpzlc

Edit: it's pronouncee kind of like the "i" in "sin," now that I think of it.
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: agrajag on October 28, 2018, 01:21:00 AM
Note that the normal "i" sound, like in the word "kill," doesn't exist. Which is why people with the stereotypical Russian accent pronounce it as "keel." Can't speak for all Slavs, but I'm pretty sure it's the same scenario. I know the Ukranian alphabet has the letter "i," but I think it is also used for an "ee" vowel. This is very off topic, maybe there should be a linguistics thread.
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Kara on October 28, 2018, 01:29:08 AM
The P = R and the Y = U always throws people for a loop

Don't know why but for whatever reason it doesn't click that it's a Greek alphabet for anglophones.

I'd sometimes fall back on frats / sororities (or Arabic) if I'd have trouble with a letter.
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: agrajag on October 28, 2018, 01:36:13 AM
The P = R and the Y = U always throws people for a loop

Don't know why but for whatever reason it doesn't click that it's a Greek alphabet for anglophones.

I'd sometimes fall back on frats / sororities (or Arabic) if I'd have trouble with a letter.

Yeah, close enough.
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: benjipwns on October 28, 2018, 01:38:28 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/2eLvhys.png)
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Post by: agrajag on October 28, 2018, 01:40:34 AM
I would be especially suspicious of Tovarisch Shostakovich.
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: benjipwns on October 28, 2018, 01:42:11 AM
me reporting Kara or vice versa is one of the FBI's favorite running jokes
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Nintex on October 28, 2018, 07:31:45 AM
I'm thinking we need a McAfee thread because like with the FSB story it's really hard to 'label' this shit.  :doge
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: chronovore on October 28, 2018, 08:47:25 PM
When you learn how to read Cyrillic faux Cyrillic becomes quite nonsensical.

Newsfeed, please.
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: shosta on November 02, 2018, 07:58:15 PM
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/michael-cohen-trump-racist-language
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 02, 2018, 09:08:56 PM
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/michael-cohen-trump-racist-language

(https://i.imgur.com/OW6lnak.jpg)
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: agrajag on November 02, 2018, 09:36:54 PM
http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45929.0

Assi got fired from TheBore.com for racism/sexism/transphobia/homophobia/xenophobia
Title: Re: Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.
Post by: Stoney Mason on June 10, 2020, 09:58:08 AM
I don't really update the thread anymore but since we are having a moment with racists being caught left and right here is a link for book-keeping purposes.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/everyone-whos-been-fired-during-the-2020-racism-reckoning-from-the-times-james-bennet-to-vanderpump-rules?utm_source=digg
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Post by: bork on June 10, 2020, 10:25:09 AM
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/hartley-sawyer-fired-flash-misogynist-tweets-surface-1297483

Had an episode of this on, centered on his character, when this story broke.
:dead