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[Ironclad Alibi]

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[Boomslang]

What bugged me though was when someone on the radio got on her for the spelling of her new name. How else would you spell Caitlyn? That is the correct spelling, as far as I know.

Kaitlin, Katelyn, Catelyn, Catelin, Caitlyn, Kaytlin, Katelynn...

[protege]

That's true, I'd also point out that Jews were restricted from entering many professions as well so some of them had to go down that career path.

Even now, there are a LOT of Jewish people in the financial world. When there's a Jewish holiday, trading tends to cease But seriously, up until WWII, their activities were heavily restricted. In the years leading up to the war, their businesses were seized (or destroyed) because they were blamed for the economic problems (mostly massive poverty and hyperinflation in Germany) of the 1920s and '30s. All of it bullshit, but they were a convenient scapegoat, because they came through the difficult period relatively unscathed.

On a different note, I had some asshole give me shit about my German-sounding last name. It's not German, or Austrian, or even Hungarian--remember all of those countries were one and the same years ago. No asshole, my name is Norwegian. So you're calling me a "dirty Kraut Nazi." You're from West Virginia--do you *really* want me to start on *those* jokes?


Back on topic, I'm sure that plenty of people give cashiers shit about various stereotypes...simply because they can. Think about it--for the most part, the cashier has to basically kiss their ass, and management usually sides with the customer.

[otakuneko]

I get that...like the whole "black people love fried chicken and watermelon" thing. I read somewhere that some company banned these food items from company picnics so as not to offend their black employees, but...who doesn't like fried chicken and watermelon?"

I don't like watermelon.

Now I'm really curious about the whole black people and fried chicken/watermelon thing. I first encountered it in *ahem* 70s porn mags, and it seems like the sort of thing 70s-era crackas would come up with (especially since the usual depiction was with the iconic KFC bucket), but I'm betting it goes back a lot farther than that. NPR says the fried chicken part goes back to Birth of a Nation, watermelon goes back farther but it doesn't say when.

The article includes this quote from Dave Chapelle: "The only reason these things are even an issue is because nobody knows what white people eat,"

Oh come on, Dave. Everybody knows us whities eat nothin' but cheeseburgers.

[raudf]

Maybe the guy with the 'gay NBC peacock' just got his first color TV?

This was a popular theory on the post, actually. Another was the guy is colorblind and one of his "good ol' boy*" friends just got around to telling him the peacock had a rainbow tail. Of course, this meant that it must have suddenly changed because of Gay PRIDE!!

But all signs point to him just being an 'ist and an ijit. At least, that's what my magic eight ball says.

* in my neck of the woods, the "good ol' boys," are the worst sort of 'ists. They are the ones that will say, "I'm not 'ist, but..." and go on to tell the most 'ist jokes ever. Why bother claiming you're not, if you're gonna tell the joke anyways? We'll just add hypocrite to the list of things they are. These are also the ones that treat the lowly wage slave as slaves in truth. *sigh* I hate them, I do.