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[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 115 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (29 children)

That is some savage shit. If Eminem were at the table, he would have taken notes.

Edit: I mean, yeah, he did go overboard, but that Israeli guy started it with the stupid ass potato joke. That shit was (1) uncalled for and (2) played out. If the Israeli guy goes to HR, they need to reprimand his ass, too, for trying to being offensive and sucking at it. At least my man here knows how to strike. You want him on your team.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 94 points 2 months ago (28 children)

The potato joke is also a joke about a genocide.

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 60 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s a joke about being the victim of genocide.

In this case the equivalent joke would be a holocaust joke, which would probably get you fired even faster.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Legitimately, if they're American, the people in HR probably wouldn't even believe you if you told them about what actually happened during the Irish famine, or how England treated them for decades directly leading to "the troubles"

They would assume you're making it up.

I'm not joking

I was more or less taught in school "oh well it was an oopsie-woopsie, all the crops died but England tried to help them! Oh well, such a terrible natural disaster."

I didn't learn about the darker side of things until I read into it outside school.

The US education system is a joke.

[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Curious. I wonder if the region you grew up in influenced this at all... as I am from an area full of ethnically Irish folk whose roots trace back to emigres during the famine, and we definitely were taught that the bloody English were to blame!

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I'm certain areas with more Irish heritage are going to have a better grasp of things.

I grew up in an area primarily composed of English, Scottish, and French immigrant descendants.

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