Two black people have the nerve to shop at fancy store, are promptly arrested

[Joe Republic]

Separate incidents:

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I eagerly await the comments from any of our resident fashion-oblivious shut-ins about how spending that type of money on accessories should be a criminal offense to begin with...

[minionofmidas]

]I eagerly await the comments from any of our resident fashion-oblivious shut-ins about how spending that type of money on accessories should be a criminal offense to begin with...[/size]

While this is of course true (the paragraph should be named 'criminal stupidity' or something) the much more pressing thing is... this is the same store in both incidents?

Time for a boycott campaign. Really, really, really time for a massive organized boycott to not end until they're facing bankruptcy.

[This user has not been convicted of 34 felonies]

[BM]

Wow, this story made me cry. I wouldn't be surprised if they got the death penalty. When will the racism in this country end?

[tik 🪀✨]

When will the racism in this country end?

When there is only one race left (duhn duh duuuuhhhhh)

By the way, that one race left will be known in official documents as "vaguely Asian, but not as good at mathing and playing the violin as initially expected."

[© tweed]

Ray Kelly's NYC.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Has the word "uppity" been used yet?

[jaichind]

Wow, this story made me cry. I wouldn't be surprised if they got the death penalty. When will the racism in this country end?

It will end when it becomes economically unproductive to engage in such behavior.  As long as people feel they gain economically to act this way they will continue to do so.  If I as an economic entity say I refuse to engage in economic activity with group X they must think it is to their benefit.  Once they realize it is to their economic loss to do so they will stop.

[memphis]

Stop and frisk policing at its finest. New York City is quite well known for this.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Wow, this story made me cry. I wouldn't be surprised if they got the death penalty. When will the racism in this country end?

It will end when it becomes economically unproductive to engage in such behavior.  As long as people feel they gain economically to act this way they will continue to do so.  If I as an economic entity say I refuse to engage in economic activity with group X they must think it is to their benefit.  Once they realize it is to their economic loss to do so they will stop.

That's hilariously naive.

[opebo]

Wow, this story made me cry. I wouldn't be surprised if they got the death penalty. When will the racism in this country end?

It will end when it becomes economically unproductive to engage in such behavior.  

Precisely, Jaichina - when capitalism is destroyed.  If these kind of stores were blown up and their owners guillotined, we could begin to rectify the problem.  Not before. 

[Oak Hills]

Wow, this story made me cry. I wouldn't be surprised if they got the death penalty. When will the racism in this country end?

It will end when it becomes economically unproductive to engage in such behavior.  As long as people feel they gain economically to act this way they will continue to do so.  If I as an economic entity say I refuse to engage in economic activity with group X they must think it is to their benefit.  Once they realize it is to their economic loss to do so they will stop.

lol

[Badger]

Wow, this story made me cry. I wouldn't be surprised if they got the death penalty. When will the racism in this country end?

It will end when it becomes economically unproductive to engage in such behavior.  As long as people feel they gain economically to act this way they will continue to do so.  If I as an economic entity say I refuse to engage in economic activity with group X they must think it is to their benefit.  Once they realize it is to their economic loss to do so they will stop.

Oh please. Racism has always been economically disadvantageous to ALL races since slavery was abolished.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Wow, this story made me cry. I wouldn't be surprised if they got the death penalty. When will the racism in this country end?

It will end when it becomes economically unproductive to engage in such behavior.  As long as people feel they gain economically to act this way they will continue to do so.  If I as an economic entity say I refuse to engage in economic activity with group X they must think it is to their benefit.  Once they realize it is to their economic loss to do so they will stop.

wow... this is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've ever read.

If you want to consider and treat yourself as less than human... more power to you.  But it's offensive to me that you think I'm nothing but an "economic entity".

If you wanna play that game, we can start dragging in more unwholesome terminology that is mroe on par with less-than-human "economic entities" such as yourself.

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

When will the racism in this country end?

When there is only one race left (duhn duh duuuuhhhhh)

By the way, that one race left will be known in official documents as "vaguely Asian, but not as good at mathing and playing the violin as initially expected."

Sigged. Thank you for that.

[barfbag]

Wow, this story made me cry. I wouldn't be surprised if they got the death penalty. When will the racism in this country end?

Racism will end when we elect a black president.

[badgate]

Wow, this story made me cry. I wouldn't be surprised if they got the death penalty. When will the racism in this country end?

It will end when it becomes economically unproductive to engage in such behavior.  As long as people feel they gain economically to act this way they will continue to do so.  If I as an economic entity say I refuse to engage in economic activity with group X they must think it is to their benefit.  Once they realize it is to their economic loss to do so they will stop.

Oh please. Racism has always been economically disadvantageous to ALL races since slavery was abolished.

Slavery was abolished in the 20th century?

[publicunofficial]

Wow, this story made me cry. I wouldn't be surprised if they got the death penalty. When will the racism in this country end?

It will end when it becomes economically unproductive to engage in such behavior.  As long as people feel they gain economically to act this way they will continue to do so.  If I as an economic entity say I refuse to engage in economic activity with group X they must think it is to their benefit.  Once they realize it is to their economic loss to do so they will stop.

lol libertarians

[Joe Republic]

I feel like jaichind's post is one short step away from that old libertarian favorite about the free market solving every single problem in society.  Including racism, presumably.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

I feel like jaichind's post is one short step away from that old libertarian favorite about the free market solving every single problem in society.  Including racism, presumably.

It's an obverse to the Marxist idea that racism is an extension of capitalism.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Wow, this story made me cry. I wouldn't be surprised if they got the death penalty. When will the racism in this country end?

It will end when it becomes economically unproductive to engage in such behavior.  As long as people feel they gain economically to act this way they will continue to do so.  If I as an economic entity say I refuse to engage in economic activity with group X they must think it is to their benefit.  Once they realize it is to their economic loss to do so they will stop.

It appears that you believe in the fallacy that all market actors will act rationally.

[tik 🪀✨]

When will the racism in this country end?

When there is only one race left (duhn duh duuuuhhhhh)

By the way, that one race left will be known in official documents as "vaguely Asian, but not as good at mathing and playing the violin as initially expected."

Sigged. Thank you for that.

Glad my stupidity is appreciated

Wow, this story made me cry. I wouldn't be surprised if they got the death penalty. When will the racism in this country end?

It will end when it becomes economically unproductive to engage in such behavior.  As long as people feel they gain economically to act this way they will continue to do so.  If I as an economic entity say I refuse to engage in economic activity with group X they must think it is to their benefit.  Once they realize it is to their economic loss to do so they will stop.

It is economically unproductive for you to relate structural racism to economic productivity, worm. People are not robots, nor cogs in the marketplace's machinery. We are individually irrational, fearful imbeciles who will choose to do what is not in our best interests economically because we feel it is in our best interests for reasons that are only rationalized psychologically afterwards. Christ, look at the tools of advertising and marketing. We are always participating in the economy irrationally and unproductively - just as we have been trained since birth!

[minionofmidas]

Wow, this story made me cry. I wouldn't be surprised if they got the death penalty. When will the racism in this country end?

It will end when it becomes economically unproductive to engage in such behavior.  As long as people feel they gain economically to act this way they will continue to do so.  If I as an economic entity say I refuse to engage in economic activity with group X they must think it is to their benefit.  Once they realize it is to their economic loss to do so they will stop.

That's hilariously naive.

Nyes. Everything bar the first sentence is actually correct-ish (for gain in sentence two, read don't lose; for "it is to their benefit" read "it is not to their detriment"). It's just that the first sentence actually makes a completely different and long falsified claim.

Hence why this - presuming, as seems over likely, that this is company policy - calls for a boycott campaign.

[dead0man]

Now that the recreational outrage is mostly out of the way, I'll stand up and be Joe's fashionless man and bitch about the price of the purchased items.  $350 for a belt?  WTH?  And it's got a name attached to it?  You unattractive people really do enjoy throwing your money away in the hopes of attracting people that are attracted to people that blow money on ridiculously expensive clothes.


Obviously it shouldn't be a criminal offense Joe, that would be more stupid than buying a $350 belt....but it should be shamed in the hopes that the sheep learn.

[tik 🪀✨]

Now that the recreational outrage is mostly out of the way, I'll stand up and be Joe's fashionless man and bitch about the price of the purchased items.  $350 for a belt?  WTH?  And it's got a name attached to it?  You unattractive people really do enjoy throwing your money away in the hopes of attracting people that are attracted to people that blow money on ridiculously expensive clothes.


Obviously it shouldn't be a criminal offense Joe, that would be more stupid than buying a $350 belt....but it should be shamed in the hopes that the sheep learn.

I completely agree with this sentiment. I've never understood the elevated status of The Brand. It's a tremendous waste - and anyone who ogles at the majesty of The Brand is a pompous idiot. No doubt fools like jaichind use their ownership of The Brand products to assert their imaginative status.