I used to go to this (tiny) gym when I worked in this office building. It isn’t used a ton, and I would be surprised to see a bunch of people in it at the same time.
I would also instantly recognize that a group is there together and it poses zero problem or inconvenience for anyone. There are two access control readers needed to get in there - one either from the inside or outside of the building to the adjacent bike storage, and a second to move into the actual gym. There’s also virtually no access to anything once you get in there aside from a handful of gym lockers.
And the building is large and a constantly-rotating cast of WeWork members can get access to it. So it’s not like an unfamiliar person in the gym would be a surprise.
It’s absurd for anyone, essentially, to make any argument rationalizing causing a problem or questioning why someone is there. Outside of some level of bigotry.
Sure, we’ve got some progressivism as long as it means we can send our kids to “good schools” (i.e. majority white) and can avoid driving through "rough neighborhoods) (i.e. North Minneapolis). Oh, and Somalis in theory, not so much in practice.
Dopes who still want to downplay the disparity are saying nonsense like “you can’t make a direct comparison between those events because they happened in different states.” As if they aren’t part of a larger pattern that’s played out again and again across the entire country for generations.
I am always reminded of the Season 4 episode of MAS*H titled The Novocaine Mutiny.
Basic run down: a courts-martial proceeding of Hawkeye for mutiny against Burns. Burns tells the court his version of events which of course glorify him. Hawkeye when taking the stand…
"The major’s version of what happened was, to say the least, fascinating. It was, to say the most, perjury.
No, to be fair, I have no doubt that he remembers it that way. More’s the pity."
Its one thing to have had this dissonance when it was only what you remembered. To your point it takes it to a whole new level as they watch it on film their words, actions, tone and they still hold to their own color of their their pretty little sky in their own mind.
Cause they think they’re right. And they think “everyone” will leap up to support them if they just take some sort of stand. Like whatever nonsense fantasies about triggering a race war/second civil war are going by at the moment, if you just blow the right church up hard enough everyone will take up arms!
It’s the whole Nixonian Silent Majority thing. Everyone agrees but noone will say it. (and Dear Leader is so great for saying it).
They double down because they believe the video can only make them more righteous. Those pieces of shit in Georgia appear to have had an accomplice record their lynching, and it was released to a conservative outlet in an attempt to exonerate the murderers.
That’d be where your social bubbles come in. They haven’t. They’ve seen Fox News and Breitbart applauding and defending. They’ve heard their colleagues at the country club mutter about victims criminal records and welfare fraud.
You’re not generally talking about the sort of people who have much contact with non-whites or pay much attention to anyone who might be concerned about this.
Everyone they interact with thinks this shit is great. So they assume everyone they don’t know will think they’re great when that video gets out too.
This is the first time I’ve heard about the Karen meme / label. This is kinda unfortunate, because there’s a whole lot of Asian American women who are named Karen (Asian Americans lag on naming about a generation or so, like “Grace”) that will probably encounter some micro-aggression even without being white, especially for calling for the manager… even while after being racially profiled.
First they came for the Chads, and no one said anything.
South Korea has a separate 3-digit police phone number for complaints and non-emergencies, emphasizing that if you call 119, it better be a damn emergency or we’re going to make you pay for mobilizing for it. Dunno how well it works though.
999 - emergency number
112 - emergency number for mobile phones
101 - non-emergency police number
111 - non-emergency medical number
It seems to work, except the Tories have gutted the non-emergency medical number (It used to be staffed by qualified nurses, now it is just a generic call centre with checklists.)
