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[-] superkret@feddit.org 183 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  1. How is gender and race at all relevant for this joke?
  2. How is that picture appropriate for a professional networking site?
  3. Also, what did the dude google to find that picture?
[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 89 points 1 year ago
  1. The point of the joke is the rich man is racist and/or misogynistic.

  2. It’s just a picture of a woman?

  3. Probably something horny and vaguely racist.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 51 points 1 year ago
  1. It's pretty obviously a casting-couch-type picture.
[-] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

Yep. Last time I heard this joke, it was about a Jewish owner and an antisemite buying the drinks. And I think you're spot on with #3.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

How did the bigot know the guy was Jewish?

[-] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It's in the setup of the joke

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Repelle@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] spookex@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year 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

[-] Repelle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] spookex@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

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

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

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

He bought drinks for all the other non-black women in the bar, so gender doesn't appear to factor into it for him.

[-] Windex007@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

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

[-] bunitor@lemmy.eco.br 14 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
  1. Restaurant/bar owner black ladies called Albert Einstein. Its the first result on google image search.
[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

How is gender and race at all relevant for this joke?

The story itself isn't a joke. The linkedin salesman guy wrote a stupid story about an unrealistically obnoxious rich guy who trips over his own racism.

How is that picture appropriate for a professional networking site?

Maybe he's targeting people who look like that. The [guy who is rude to my target demographic] is quietly pwned by [my target demographic] (Now they will buy my product).

Also, what did the dude google to find that picture?

Ask him? His name is on the image.

[-] Hugin@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The story is a joke. Literally. The version I herd decades ago was a guy keeps buying for everybody but the Jew at a table who ends up owning the bar.

[-] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

3, beautiful woman on leather chair glows like an angel

Duh

[-] MadBob@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] puchaczyk 139 points 1 year ago

When you want to write an interracial, humiliation-kink erotica but you only know how to post on LinkedIn.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 71 points 1 year ago
[-] Retrograde@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago
[-] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 37 points 1 year ago

That model is beautiful. Who is she?

[-] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 95 points 1 year ago
[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago
[-] JoeyHarrington@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Hey guys, I found the restaurant owner

[-] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 72 points 1 year ago

She's the owner of the restaurant, duh.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago
[-] asqapro@reddthat.com 23 points 1 year ago

From reddit: https://www.instagram.com/p/B3aERIZg2Fp/ (ririshanpriel is tagged)

People claimed that she didn’t have much of an internet presence beyond her instagram and an unused TikTok account.

[-] match@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago

anok yai, maybe

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago

Wow, I did NOT expect that story after seeing the picture. Doesn’t seem related.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Was the man's name JD Vance?

Also, are we supposed to believe that someone is not buying the lady pictured here a drink??

[-] Breezy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Well shes just kinda crouching in the corner quietly judgeing everyone with an un happy look. Then says thank you whenever someone buys something. I wouldve stayed clear of her too.

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago

There needs to be an !upvotedbecauseboobs

[-] spirinolas@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Suddenly I got this urge for chocolate. Weird.

[-] rain_worl@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

why that shiny???

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
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