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[–] superkret@feddit.org 179 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 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?
[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  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 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 (1 children)

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 34 points 1 year 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".

[–] Repelle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 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

[–] spookex@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 (1 children)

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 3 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 28 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 15 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 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  1. Restaurant/bar owner black ladies called Albert Einstein. Its the first result on google image search.
[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Where does the bus driver fit in this story though?

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 9 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 8 points 1 year ago

3, beautiful woman on leather chair glows like an angel

Duh

This is a variation on an old joke. The way I heard it originally, it was a Jew that owned the bar and the bigoted customer was an antisemite.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] 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?

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
  1. Gotchas are better if the guy who got got is bad.
  2. It's not.
  3. "All the way black girl"