• yggstyle@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The one that you describe where the co-workers are being nice and the black guy is being an asshole for complaining about it.

    Alternatively, this guy could be simply misinterpreting a pretty (all things considered) passable gesture. As I mentioned before: hanlons razor.

    Or the other scenario where the black dude’s co-workers are making assumptions about the dude …

    Totally plausible. This is an office party- we only know so much.

    …based on stereotypes.

    Why this? Yeah people can be insensitive but that’s a hell of a leap to make here.

    In which case the black dude is rightfully bothered by this and the co-workers are making ignorant assumptions based on race.

    Possible? Sure. Here’s my take: I just got cake and free booze. How we choose to interpret things goes a long way. Even if it were racially driven- there’s two sides of this… and only of them is backed by malice… and if so: as I mentioned … that’s a big spend to be a dick.

    If he wants to be offended by all means: go to hr. But he posted it on Twitter. Excuse me for being blunt but based on where he posted it- he was looking for a reaction and won’t further speculate there.

    And I see you making further ignorant …

    I mentioned earlier that a lot of things have to do with perception. You are running to defend a dubious at best situation with minimal information. You have no skin in this- there is no reason to be so invested in something where you would attribute my blunt, but fair, assessment as malice. Many people would do well to take a breath before jumping to conclusions… we’d all be better for it.

    We can’t know which scenario is true.

    You should have stopped there.

    Try to be a better person.

    Every day. How about you?