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Woke students at prestigious college complain that soap dispensers are racist
The Blaze ^ | April 22, 2021 | Dave Urbanski

Posted on 04/25/2021 11:24:27 AM PDT by Marchmain

If you still don't believe that the lunatics are running the asylum, get a load of an op-ed that a civil engineering student from the University of California, Los Angeles, just penned for the the College Fix.

POLL: What scares you the most? What does it say?

In it, Sullivan Israel shares that he recently took part in an online debate about "systemic racism" sponsored by the Bruin Republicans — and that some UCLA students complained during the debate that automatic soap dispensers are racist.

Yup.

You know, the contraptions in public restrooms all across the fruited plain that magically emit gobs of liquid soap soon after you place your hands underneath them?

Anyway, Israel said one student said the dispensers "don't see her hands" because of her skin's dark pigment.

Umm, okay.

Oh, but it gets better. He added that another student said the dispensers force "black and brown bodies" to show their palms — which are "the only light areas of the skin" — before the soap will come out.

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bloggers; racism; racistsoap; soap; soapdispensers; whichchapter
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To: SkyDancer

right. just like the faucets and the hand dryers maybe even the lights all motion detectors


41 posted on 04/25/2021 12:24:14 PM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: SkyDancer

The palms are not the only areas that are light colored. I checked that out 50 years ago.


42 posted on 04/25/2021 12:45:15 PM PDT by chopperk ( )
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To: SkyDancer

Some are infrared. Not sure what that has to do with melanin content but anyway I don’t think I’ve ever dispensed soap onto the top of my hands. Always into the palm. Have I been doing it wrong this whole time?

I have had trouble with the electric paper dispensers. Usually when they run out of paper.


43 posted on 04/25/2021 12:46:46 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Allegra

Because the sensors are motion detectors.


44 posted on 04/25/2021 12:47:32 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (. )
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To: Marchmain

“ He added that another student said the dispensers force “black and brown bodies” to show their palms — which are “the only light areas of the skin” — before the soap will come out.”

‘Scuze me, but aren’t your palms where you want the soap???


45 posted on 04/25/2021 12:48:15 PM PDT by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: monkeyshine

There was a TV show a while back about an office, they had installed new light sensors that didn’t recognize white people. They had to assign black people to white employees. It was pretty funny but the show didn’t last more then a few episodes.


46 posted on 04/25/2021 12:51:38 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (wwg1wga Godwins; what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them.. )
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To: Marchmain

As a female I think they are sexist, as many I have come across suffer from premature ejaculation.


47 posted on 04/25/2021 12:51:41 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Vermont Lt

Oops. Sorry.


48 posted on 04/25/2021 1:02:09 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: Marchmain

Not as raciss as flesh-colored bandaids, or shaving cream, or whipped cream, or egg white, or Wite-Out, or whiteboard, or white as a ghost.


49 posted on 04/25/2021 1:02:14 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Dirt, grease and grime are BLACK
Soap is WHITE

Horrors!!

Call me when we have WHITE dirt and BLACK soap.


50 posted on 04/25/2021 1:05:47 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Real happiness is one that you share)
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To: Marchmain

Agent the palms where people of any color want the soap anyway? So what’s the problem?


51 posted on 04/25/2021 1:21:28 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: campaignPete R-CT

UCLA is prestigious?

It’s no coincidence that it is ACLU spelled sideways.:D


52 posted on 04/25/2021 1:25:57 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: Marchmain

This was actually demonstrated at Facebook in 2017. Some dispensers rely on sensors looking for a color change to see the hand and dispense the soap. 5% are too dark for it to work correctly.


53 posted on 04/25/2021 1:40:54 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Marchmain

They don’t see Caucasian hands a lot of the time, either. The sensors suck.


54 posted on 04/25/2021 1:41:26 PM PDT by Ellendra (A single lie on our side does more damage than a thousand lies on their side.)
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To: PROCON

WiFi?

-or-

5G enabled Five Eyes?


55 posted on 04/25/2021 1:49:28 PM PDT by null and void (When you put bad people in charge expect bad things to happen, often in a spectacular and sudden way)
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To: Marchmain

Who puts their hands under a soap dispenser palms down? Geezis.....


56 posted on 04/25/2021 1:53:56 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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To: Marchmain

This has zero to do with race and everything with being self absorbed.


57 posted on 04/25/2021 2:00:45 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: NewHampshireDuo

80 people stated it.


58 posted on 04/25/2021 2:02:52 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

You got your shot?

Did you buckle and show ID, or did you raise a loud stink and publicly humiliate her for her racist obstinance?

(FR’s spell checker obstinately refuses to recognized obstinance as a word...)


59 posted on 04/25/2021 2:03:27 PM PDT by null and void (When you put bad people in charge expect bad things to happen, often in a spectacular and sudden way)
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To: clintonh8r

“ Who puts their hands under a soap dispenser palms down? Geezis...”

Your Common sense is undermining the narrative.


60 posted on 04/25/2021 2:06:14 PM PDT by HollyB
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