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A woman brought her own snacks to Despicable Me 4. Then the police arrived (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 262 points 3 months ago (38 children)

This is a story of one bootlicking employee who was in desperate need of fucking off and minding his own business:

However, just as the movie started, an employee told them to put their snack bags away, the report said. They agreed but the employee apparently insisted on sitting next to them to monitor the snack situation.

A few minutes later, one of the children popped a Skittle he was already holding into his mouth, and quite frankly, all hell broke loose, the women said. The employee started shouting at them, and said that the police would be called unless they left. This is when the children started crying.

“My niece asked nicely: ‘If you’re calling the police, are they going to kill my mum?’” one of the women told the newspaper. “And he laughed at that stage. He looks directly in her face and he said: ‘Yeah, maybe we’ll find out.’

[–] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 39 points 3 months ago (19 children)

Is he secretly an American? Because that sounds far more like something I'd hear here. Atrocious.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Why are people incapable of understanding the US isn't the source of all evil? Shitty people exist everywhere. It's really not that complex of an idea to understand.

[–] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm in the US and did a double take when I saw that it was NZ; it's the Americentrism that was ingrained in me since childhood that led me to automatically assume, based on the headline, that it was a story from here.

It could easily be one of dozens of similar stories here. People here can get rabidly protective of their firearms. Threats/offensive comments like the one the employee in this situation made are common enough that I think this would only be considered a fluff piece in the states, if it made the news at all.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

it's the Americentrism that was ingrained in me since childhood

You can (and should) fix that. Assuming everywhere else is better just because you haven't seen it (or buy the hype) does a disservice to the victims. Power tripping assholes exist everywhere there's power to be had.

[–] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I've unlearned much of it, but it remains an ongoing process; it's similar to how recovery from addiction is a lifelong process. Unfortunately, many of my (I'm guessing our, but don't want to assume) compatriots don't feel the need to unlearn it or don't see it as an issue to begin with.

Assuming everywhere else is better

Nowhere did I say that I assumed everywhere else was better. I can see how you inferred that, but that wasn't my implication; I suppose my sarcasm didn't come through well enough. Rather, I am just so used to that type of gun rhetoric here and not used to that from what I hear about NZ that it was a surprise.