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Thread: Detroit firefighter fired for bringing watermelon to station [SRS][Is this real life]

post 1521782761 10-07-2017, 08:53 AM
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Originally Posted By Reefy⏩
All I know is watermelon is delicious brah
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Watermelon, the blandest of all fruits is now triggering grown men. Even if he had brought fried chicken with that watermelon, I'd just say thanks and eat the damn thing. WTF does it matter if someone is racist if they're not hindering you?
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While the US is certainly populated by the easily offended, you have to be clueless to pull this in a chocolate city...
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Originally Posted By ExPatriot⏩
While the US is certainly populated by the easily offended, you have to be clueless to pull this in a chocolate city...
So I can't have watermelon now or buy it as it will appear I am racist? How is a fuking fruit racist.
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Considering it's aFireStation I consider bringing awatermelon a pretty funny joke. But even if it was, they'd still see no humour in it.

What kind of a world do we live in where someone can't be a life saver because they brought in a certain fruit? Also by even being offended you feed the stereotype. A non racist world would be "Oh cool, a watermelon how refreshing. Let's tuck in!".
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Originally Posted By ExPatriot⏩
While the US is certainly populated by the easily offended, you have to be clueless to pull this in a chocolate city...
I think the intention was obviously as a joke, not to be racist. It's definitely a bold move to bring a watermelon in, it can go good or horribly wrong. I just think people are way too sensitive nowadays. The intention is obvious but people just don't care anymore.
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losing hope for humanity..a fruit=racist. ok.

i guess they would have preferred prunes than a watermelon?
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They're just mad he didn't bring in some fried chicken
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Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
Watermelon, the blandest of all fruits is now triggering grown men. Even if he had brought fried chicken with that watermelon, I'd just say thanks and eat the damn thing. WTF does it matter if someone is racist if they're not hindering you?
It could matter that someone is racist against you if schit hits the fan in your line of work. Not that I agree with the guy's firing. It very well could have been an innocuous gesture by him, and I think you need more to go on before making a decision to fire him and impacting his livelihood in such a profound way.
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Originally Posted By Gynomite⏩
It could matter that someone is racist against you if schit hits the fan in your line of work. Not that I agree with the guy's firing. It very well could have been an innocuous gesture by him, and I think you need more to go on before making a decision to fire him and impacting his livelihood in such a profound way.
Again, I said if it doesn't hinder you, why does it matter, obviously if he tries to get you killed during a fire, that would be hindering you.
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Originally Posted By nn586⏩
All I know is watermelon is delicious brah
I like it too. Especially straight from the fridge on a hot summer day
post 1521784271 10-07-2017, 09:14 AM
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Why do blacks care if whites don't like them? Stop begging for validation from them and form your own communties like China town. Its pathetic. Go to black owned businesses and prop the community up.
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I bring watermelon with me to a lot of parties. Its one of the best fruiit to serve in a fruit bowl, is cheap, and instantly refreshing
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Who doesnt like watermelon? GOAT summer fruit. White, black, hispanic, asian, etc. Dont know how they would be offended. Id be first in line to eat.
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Fuark does this mean I can't bring burritos to my Mexican friends or mayonnaise and cucumber sandwiches to my white friends?
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But did they eat it?

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Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
Again, I said if it doesn't hinder you, why does it matter, obviously if he tries to get you killed during a fire, that would be hindering you.
Well yeah, but you'd probably want to get rid of someone like that before they had the chance to hinder you. You wouldn't wait for them to hinder you to make that decision, but go by a reasonable expectation for potential to hinder. That said, the station didn't give the guy a fair chance to determine the potential for hindrance, and now look like a bunch of triggered crybabies over what very well could have been an innocuous gesture.

This is probably just semantics at this point.
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Originally Posted By velvetmudhole⏩
but did they eat it?

lmao
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Originally Posted By Howiester⏩
Fuark does this mean I can't bring burritos to my Mexican friends or mayonnaise and cucumber sandwiches to my white friends?
Lol exactly. I thought firefighters joke around all the time and give each other chit? Like locker room talk.
Originally Posted By velvetmudhole⏩
But did they eat it?

I hope somebody ate it, can't let a watermelon like that go to waste
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U know they ate the watermelon after...ingrates. Who the phuck doesn't like watermelon anyway?

Also I never understood why fried chicken and watermelon is seen as a black thing. Literally everyone likes fried chicken and watermelon...it isn't just black people wtf.
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I had a black friend in high school (still friends with but he lives in another state now) that would devour watermelon when we had it at our house.... people nowadays are just way too sensitive.
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Originally Posted By wincel⏩
U know they ate the watermelon after...ingrates. Who the phuck doesn't like watermelon anyway?

Also I never understood why fried chicken and watermelon is seen as a black thing. Literally everyone likes fried chicken and watermelon...it isn't just black people wtf.
If you want to read up on some history about it

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Even still I think people need to take a joke and just eat the damn watermelon
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rofl he was so not aware or trolling

pink ribbon on a watermelon when all the people there are black lolz.
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I'm guessing there has to be more to it. Surely the world isn't so ****ed that just bringing in a watermelon would get you canned. Must have made a joke or something along with showing the watermelon.
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Originally Posted By velvetmudhole⏩
But did they eat it?
Was thinking this, bet those kunts ate the watermelon after getting him fired.
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It'll be interesting to see all these snowflakes cry racism when China runs the world (soon...)
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