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Papa John’s employee fired for racial slur on receipt

  • SnotBubbles




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  • THE4RINGZ
    Breaking news.
  • SnotBubbles
    THE4RINGZ;1049071 wrote:Breaking news.
  • Scarlet_Buckeye
    Political correctness strikes again.
  • FatHobbit
    Scarlet_Buckeye;1049137 wrote:Political correctness strikes again.
    You think it's ok to put "Lady chinky eyes" on a receipt that is given to a customer?
  • sleeper
    FatHobbit;1049157 wrote:You think it's ok to put "Lady chinky eyes" on a receipt that is given to a customer?
    No its not okay. But what is stupid is why this is made news. If you're offended by "lady chinky eyes" you need to grow some thicker skin. I seriously will never understand why this shit is such a big deal, I have been called way worse and I don't care about what people say about me. This lady needs to grow up.
  • Skyhook79
    sleeper;1049165 wrote:No its not okay. But what is stupid is why this is made news. If you're offended by "lady chinky eyes" you need to grow some thicker skin. I seriously will never understand why this shit is such a big deal, I have been called way worse and I don't care about what people say about me. This lady needs to grow up.
    Figured you would be back and one of your first posts back would be on something racial.
  • sleeper
    Skyhook79;1049169 wrote:Figured you would be back and one of your first posts back would be on something racial.
    Racial?

    Hardly. I treat all races equally, period. I'm just tired of minorities always trying to play the race card and I'm not afraid to call it like I see it. If that's racism, then so be it.
  • justincredible
    Scarlet_Buckeye;1049137 wrote:Political correctness strikes again.
    lol, wut? It's not about political correctness. It's about not being a raging racist asshole.
  • ts1227
    justincredible;1049185 wrote:lol, wut? It's not about political correctness. It's about not being a raging racist asshole.

    You shut your socialist mouth :D
  • justincredible
    sleeper;1049165 wrote:No its not okay. But what is stupid is why this is made news. If you're offended by "lady chinky eyes" you need to grow some thicker skin. I seriously will never understand why this shit is such a big deal, I have been called way worse and I don't care about what people say about me. This lady needs to grow up.
    There is nothing that a straight white male can be called that is offensive.
  • justincredible
    Louis CK said it best.

    [video=youtube;TG4f9zR5yzY][/video]
  • sleeper
    justincredible;1049191 wrote:There is nothing that a straight white male can be called that is offensive.
    Exactly. Do you know why this is? Because straight white men have thick skin.

    If you take offense to anything that someone says, you deserve the negative feelings. I don't feel sorry for anyone getting picked on, this is the way we weed out the weak in our society. I'm not advocating bullying in the form of violence because violence is never the answer, but I think verbal abuse is important to creating a stronger more independent person.
  • THE4RINGZ
    As the parent of two adopted Asian kids, I can tell you for a fact that most of the Asians I know don't play the race card often. However, the terms "chink", and "gook" are equal to calling other races/nationalities the N-word, or other extremely derogitory racial terms. Especially calling a Korean a "chink" is probably the greatest insult you can call them.

    That aside, we all know it happens everyday in our society.
  • DeyDurkie5
    old news
  • justincredible
    sleeper;1049208 wrote:Exactly. Do you know why this is? Because straight white men have thick skin.

    If you take offense to anything that someone says, you deserve the negative feelings. I don't feel sorry for anyone getting picked on, this is the way we weed out the weak in our society. I'm not advocating bullying in the form of violence because violence is never the answer, but I think verbal abuse is important to creating a stronger more independent person.
    No, it's because there is literally not a single offensive thing we can be called. It has nothing to do with thick skin.
  • FatHobbit
    justincredible;1049212 wrote:No, it's because there is literally not a single offensive thing we can be called.
    White trash?
  • sleeper
    justincredible;1049212 wrote:No, it's because there is literally not a single offensive thing we can be called. It has nothing to do with thick skin.
    Jackass? Asshole? MF'r? I know these don't offend you because white men have thick skin. They are race neutral terms.

    Try calling a black man any of those words, I'm sure they won't just brush it off. Instead they are likely to label you a racist.
  • justincredible
    sleeper;1049224 wrote:Jackass? Asshole? MF'r? I know these don't offend you because white men have thick skin. They are race neutral terms.

    Try calling a black man any of those words, I'm sure they won't just brush it off. Instead they are likely to label you a racist.
    Indeed. Calling a white guy an "asshole" is not even in the same universe as calling an Asian "lady chinky eyes."
  • sleeper
    justincredible;1049267 wrote:Indeed. Calling a white guy an "****" is not even in the same universe as calling an Asian "lady chinky eyes."
    Why?
  • justincredible
    sleeper;1049285 wrote:Why?
    Because asshole isn't a racial slur?
  • sleeper
    justincredible;1049298 wrote:Because **** isn't a racial slur?
    I guess I should rephrase. Why is a racial slur considered to be worse? That is what I'm trying to allude to.
  • queencitybuckeye
    sleeper;1049165 wrote:If you're offended by "lady chinky eyes" you need to grow some thicker skin.
    The easily offended spend money too, and Papa Johns is not currently in the position of offending any potential customers.
  • sleeper
    queencitybuckeye;1049304 wrote:The easily offended spend money too, and Papa Johns is not currently in the position of offending any potential customers.
    I'm not defending Papa Johns. I'm merely saying this is an overreaction and should not be national news or any news at best. If the situation occurred where I was the customer and the person wrote "Jackass" as my name on the receipt, I would either laugh or call to the attention of their error. I wouldn't go on to social media and try to paint myself as a victim and imply that Papa Johns is somehow racist or insensitive to consumer's feelings.
  • ManO'War
    If they wrote "Man round eyes" on my receipt I wouldn't make a federal case out of it, especially if they were doing it for identification purposes.

    The only thing is that they could have chosen better wording, like "Asian Lady", but of course that would have been made a big deal too.