Was it elmo? That bastard is a straight up white supremacist!
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Seriously though, who stays up nights obsessing over the fact that their child was slighted over a fictional character enough to file a lawsuit? It says more about the parent’s diseased mindset than anything else.
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“Was it elmo? That bastard is a straight up white supremacist!”
If you slow his speech down and reverse it he can be heard muttering ‘1488’!
Exactly.
“Seriously though, who stays up nights obsessing over the fact that their child was slighted over a fictional character enough to file a lawsuit? “
My company hired a black engineering student for the summer. We paid the students an insane amount when you consider how little they can contribute. This guy’s long-term plan was to find racial discrimination, file a lawsuit, and retire. Several times he’d hinted that people were being racist towards him. Finally, he accused our Russian engineering manager of discrimination because the student wasn’t getting the drawings checked so the management wanted our genius level, patent holding Russian to check drawings. The Russian said, “What for you have me doing monkey’s work?” RACISM!!! The student filed a federal level complaint, which gives him a lawyer and the case is adjudicated, in this case, by a black woman judge who had NEVER found for the company. The Russian walked into the hearing carrying a pile of leather bound, gold trimmed books sporting a plethora of sticky notes. He said, “Your honor, I never before coming here in my fifties have I seen a black person. Not once. I don’t have the background to have an opinion. But let you show you what ‘monkey’s work’ means to me as a Russian.”
He selected a book by a famous Russian author and started reading paragraphs containing monkey’s work. There were dozens of references over a hundred- and fifty-year period. The black judge admonished the student and found for the company. A first in this highly tilted judicial setup.
The rest of the time the student was there we walked around on eggshells. He had this wild-eyed paranoid look because he still KNEW we were racists. I can’t describe the relief we felt when this guy was gone.