The problem of White Supremacy - Spinoff from Buffalo Shooting thread (2 Viewers)

[Optimus Prime]

 

[Optimus Prime]

Forking Minnesota

This could have gone in the police thread but really belongs in the old calling cops thread

I’d bet my bottom dollar that the “we’ve gotten a lot of fake checks from this company” is a straight lie

And the cop, “don’t get angry, it’ll make you look guilty”

Basically “we can treat you like a piece of shirt and you’ll like it”

 

[CoolBrees]

Account with the bank, huge local conglomerate issuing a paycheck (more than likely ADP). Has ID.

Yeah calling the police on that person is normal banking operations.

I do give the TV station props for digging and getting the bodycam footage. And pulling zero punches about what it was and having two old white guys calling USBank to the carpet in Minnesota. That was surprising to say the least.

 

[Optimus Prime]

....The trend isn’t limited to Penguin Random House. A 2020 analysis by the New York Times surveyed more than 7,000 popular novels published by the largest publishing houses – Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, Doubleday, HarperCollins and Macmillan. Of the books surveyed, 95% were written by White people. In 2018 alone, non-Hispanic White people wrote a whopping 89% of the books sampled.

Lisa Lucas, publisher of Knopf imprints Pantheon and Schocken Books, also pointed out issues with Oates’ assessment – saying that the oppression of White men in publishing is simply “not a thing.”..........

MSN

 

[Optimus Prime]

A Maryland family has sued a Sesame Street theme park for $25m alleging that multiple costumed characters ignored their five-year-old Black daughter and other Black guests.

The federal lawsuit was filed in Pennsylvania’s eastern district court and seeks class action status. It argues that Quinton Burns, his daughter and other Black guests were ignored during a 18 June meet-and-greet event at the amusement park by four costumed employees dressed as various Sesame Street characters.

The suit seeks $25m in damages from SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment, the owner of Sesame Place Philadelphia.

“SeaWorld’s performers readily engaged with numerous similarly situated white customers,” read the lawsuit, reported the Associated Press.

Plaintiffs in the suit also want the park to implement mandated cultural sensitivity classes and courses about the history of discrimination, reported NBC news.

It is unclear how many additional people will join the lawsuit..........

Family sues Sesame Street theme park after racial discrimination allegations

 

[Optimus Prime]

We got a problem at Sesame Place

The Sesame Place Controversy, Explained

One family has filed a $25 million class action lawsuit over “pervasive and appalling race discrimination” at Sesame Place.

www.glamour.com

Chuck E Cheese too (which I didn’t realize was still a thing)

 

[Hoodoo]

A Maryland family has sued a Sesame Street theme park for $25m alleging that multiple costumed characters ignored their five-year-old Black daughter and other Black guests.

The federal lawsuit was filed in Pennsylvania’s eastern district court and seeks class action status. It argues that Quinton Burns, his daughter and other Black guests were ignored during a 18 June meet-and-greet event at the amusement park by four costumed employees dressed as various Sesame Street characters.

The suit seeks $25m in damages from SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment, the owner of Sesame Place Philadelphia.

“SeaWorld’s performers readily engaged with numerous similarly situated white customers,” read the lawsuit, reported the Associated Press.

Plaintiffs in the suit also want the park to implement mandated cultural sensitivity classes and courses about the history of discrimination, reported NBC news.

It is unclear how many additional people will join the lawsuit..........

Family sues Sesame Street theme park after racial discrimination allegations

$25 million in damages because your child was snubbed by a character at a theme park? I think that it's highly plausible that this was a misunderstanding and not done intentionally.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

$25 million in damages because your child was snubbed by a character at a theme park? I think that it's highly plausible that this was a misunderstanding and not done intentionally.

The size of the ask is almost certainly for publicity (and it worked obviously)
And sure there’s a chance that this was an ‘honest mistake’
But there is really nothing about contemporary race/et al relations that would support your notion of ‘highly plausible’

 

[sfidc3]

$25 million in damages because your child was snubbed by a character at a theme park? I think that it's highly plausible that this was a misunderstanding and not done intentionally.

If there is a pattern of this behavior (which there seems to be some evidence of) then it’s not highly plausible at all….that is the burden of proof….we will see what happens….

 

[Hoodoo]

The size of the ask is almost certainly for publicity (and it worked obviously)
And sure there’s a chance that this was an ‘honest mistake’
But there is really nothing about contemporary race/et al relations that would support your notion of ‘highly plausible’

Logically, if that happened to my child, my first assumption isn't that my child was purposefully snubbed. It's that these characters can hardly see in the costume and they are moving through the crowd along a parade route rather quickly. It looked to me like the character waved at them. I think it's highly plausible the character didn't intentionally snub them.

If there is a pattern of this behavior (which there seems to be some evidence of) then it’s not highly plausible at all….that is the burden of proof….we will see what happens….

Is there evidence of a pattern of that type of behavior?

 

[WhoDatPhan78]

The size of the ask is almost certainly for publicity (and it worked obviously)
And sure there’s a chance that this was an ‘honest mistake’
But there is really nothing about contemporary race/et al relations that would support your notion of ‘highly plausible’

I do think that absent more evidence, we should not assume racial animus on the part of people wearing a costume who do most likely have low visibility due to their masks.

We shouldn't be assuming racism and working backwards on everything that involves people of different races. I do think it may be a safer position to take with law enforcement interactions, because there is systemic racism built in to many of the factors involved, but that is not the case with Elmo and Chuck-E-Cheeze.

The kids he high fived were all on a higher physical level than the child he ignored.

 

[UptownSaintsFan]

Forking Minnesota

This could have gone in the police thread but really belongs in the old calling cops thread

I’d bet my bottom dollar that the “we’ve gotten a lot of fake checks from this company” is a straight lie

And the cop, “don’t get angry, it’ll make you look guilty”

Basically “we can treat you like a piece of shirt and you’ll like it”

Not to make light of it, but it would have been hilarious if they had ended the news segment with the Eddie Murphy SNL skit where he puts on white face for a day and the bank just gives him money.

 

[0rion]

Chuck E Cheese too (which I didn’t realize was still a thing)

Wonder with that mask on if he even saw her and why was every other kid on the stage and she wasn't? Maybe they want the kids up there so no one gets hurt and to give the character better vision?

 

[First Time Poster]

Logically, if that happened to my child, my first assumption isn't that my child was purposefully snubbed. It's that these characters can hardly see in the costume and they are moving through the crowd along a parade route rather quickly. It looked to me like the character waved at them. I think it's highly plausible the character didn't intentionally snub them.

Is there evidence of a pattern of that type of behavior?

At this point, I'm just waiting for the demographics in this country to change and its my sincere hope that white folks keep that same energy when they are the minorities. My common sense knows otherwise though.