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[–] [email protected] 93 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (10 children)
  1. How is gender and race at all relevant for this joke?
  2. How is that picture appropriate for a professional networking site?
  3. Also, what did the dude google to find that picture?
[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

What in the joke makes him racist but not misogynistic?

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

To me it reads as both

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 minutes ago

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

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

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