• Black kid buys $350 belt from Barney's; gets arrested for it.
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[QUOTE=SweetSwifter;42622447]If I was black and rich, I'd dress casual and go into expensive stores and buy small but really expensive items and hope to get caught, just to troll racists. :v:[/QUOTE] that take, racists! i'm buying your stuff and there's nothing you can do to stop me.
how can a student afford a belt that expensive he must be rationing hard on the insta-noodles :v:
[QUOTE=geogzm;42622632]how can a student afford a belt that expensive he must be rationing hard on the insta-noodles :v:[/QUOTE] Why do you think he needed a new belt
That's the kind of belt you need for wearing your jeans backwards because you're a mentally handicapped swag-fag. That been said, I feel for the kid and I think the store obviously fucking called the police. Shitbag Clerk and shitbag cops. No surprise coming from that city.
[QUOTE=J!NX;42622365]"All black people are poor" the guy might as well call him an N. Like seriously. He just had to add that the "Young man" was also "Black" Round of applause, you're a racist and a dick, guy.[/QUOTE] Ehh, not that it bothers me [I]that[/I] much, but could you please just write "a nigger" instead "an N"? I mean, you should never refer to anyone as "nigger", but you're talking about a hypothetical offensive situation where the usage of the word would be the whole point - I don't think anyone is going to take offense from you actually writing the word in that specific context. I won't bash anyone for being respectful, but this is basically the answer to Harry Potter's "You-know-who"-substitute. Be Harry Potter or Dumbledore next time, not some muggler-loving Ron Weasley or Hermione Granger.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;42622818]Ehh, not that it bothers me [I]that[/I] much, but could you please just write "a nigger" instead "an N"? I mean, you should never refer to anyone as "nigger", but you're talking about a hypothetical offensive situation where the usage of the word would be the whole point - I don't think anyone is going to take offense from you actually writing the word in that specific context. I won't bash anyone for being respectful, but this is basically the answer to Harry Potter's "You-know-who"-substitute. Be Harry Potter or Dumbledore next time, not some muggler-loving Ron Weasley or Hermione Granger.[/QUOTE] Normally I just go ahead and say "Nigger" but this time I decided not to, as I don't want to indirectly say it [I]too[/I] much :v:
[QUOTE=J!NX;42622855]Normally I just go ahead and say "Nigger" but this time I decided not to, as I don't want to indirectly say it [I]too[/I] much :v:[/QUOTE] by avoiding saying it you're just giving the word more power
i smell a big fat settlement coming his way.
I'm unsure why they are making this a bigger issue then it is / had to be.
really cool how FP treats racism as a total joke go figure the whole thread is "that belt is ugly" is that really all you have to say lol
[QUOTE=Vedicardi;42623530]really cool how FP treats racism as a total joke go figure the whole thread is "that belt is ugly" is that really all you have to say lol[/QUOTE] It's kinda hard not to comment on it when it's $350 and when there are two pictures of it in the OP.
Who gives a fuck about the belt, the clerk is fucking insane for thinking that.
[QUOTE=supersnail11;42622935]by avoiding saying it you're just giving the word more power[/QUOTE] So if I say over and over will racists stop using the word? It won't, that much, but making them stop instead will.
[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;42623656]Who gives a fuck about the belt, the clerk is fucking insane for thinking that.[/QUOTE] Someone gets racially profiled and arrested in an absolutely inane and blatantly systematically racist way and everyone is talking about the belt and giving dumbs to the first person to make a relevant and clearly true comment. Good work Facepunch.
now I feel bad about buying 5$ belts to hold up my 10$ jeans fuck
[QUOTE=Vedicardi;42623530]really cool how FP treats racism as a total joke go figure the whole thread is "that belt is ugly" is that really all you have to say lol[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure we all agree with racism being bad. Not much to debate or discuss so people make jokes.
[QUOTE=Vedicardi;42623530]really cool how FP treats racism as a total joke go figure the whole thread is "that belt is ugly" is that really all you have to say lol[/QUOTE] the jokes being thrown around here are hilarious too "crime against fashion" lmafo some of you guys probably wear poorly-fitting videogame or metal band tshirts and fedoras. [editline]23rd October 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Rangergxi;42624067]I'm pretty sure we all agree with racism being bad. Not much to debate or discuss so people make jokes.[/QUOTE] [url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1317513[/url] you sure about that are you really sure that all of facepunch agrees that racism is bad?
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;42624067]I'm pretty sure we all agree with racism being bad. Not much to debate or discuss so people make jokes.[/QUOTE] lol if this thread was about gypsies FP would turn into a lynch mob if it was about a white person getting racially profiled it would devolve into white teenagers acting indignant and making dumb tumblr jokes and strawmanning about institutional racism.
[QUOTE=Riller;42621822]That belt is fucking ugly. Pretty sure it's the fashion police arresting him for horrible taste.[/QUOTE] So Rusty arrested him?
The officers and the clerk should be fucking fired. He has every ground to sue their asses for racism.
[QUOTE=Durrsly;42621974]Who would pay $350 for a belt? The one I got from Wal-Mart works just as well. [/QUOTE] For the same reason anyone would pay hundreds of dollars for a watch when the $20 at Wal-Mart works just as well.
[QUOTE=SgtCr4zyGunz;42624164]lol if this thread was about gypsies [B]SH[/B] would turn into a lynch mob if it was about a white person getting racially profiled it would devolve into white teenagers acting indignant and making dumb tumblr jokes and strawmanning about institutional racism.[/QUOTE] honestly. I mean do people who hate on all of FP for SH even go to other sections? Like maybe the TF2 or Dota 2 sections, or the programming section? All those parts of FP are pretty damn different from each other or SH. SH, fast threads, and videos get too much attention because your eyes drift to that area of the homepage first or someone got bored of the section they registered on FP for, then check out SH, get addicted, and never go back to any other part of FP except for maybe videos.
[QUOTE=The Baconator;42624345]honestly. I mean do people who hate on all of FP for SH even go to other sections? Like maybe the TF2 or Dota 2 sections, or the programming section? All those parts of FP are pretty damn different from each other or SH. SH, fast threads, and videos get too much attention because your eyes drift to that area of the homepage first or someone got bored of the section they registered on FP for, then check out SH, get addicted, and never go back to any other part of FP except for maybe videos.[/QUOTE] do you have to be so pedantic? you know what i meant.
[QUOTE=Vedicardi;42623530]really cool how FP treats racism as a total joke go figure the whole thread is "that belt is ugly" is that really all you have to say lol[/QUOTE] fp treats everything as a joke i really cant believe after all this time in SH you havent learned that or did you just miss all of the jokes in the threads with news about horrible deaths [editline]23rd October 2013[/editline] by no means am i trying to hide the fact that people here are obviously less outraged by this than they are by some other news, just saying
[QUOTE=Swiket;42624324]For the same reason anyone would pay hundreds of dollars for a watch when the $20 at Wal-Mart works just as well.[/QUOTE] Expensive watches often have added functionality in the form of date counter, stopwatch-function, waterproofing and so forth. A belt is a piece of dead cow with holes poked in it. It holds pants up.
[QUOTE=Desuh;42623558]It's kinda hard not to comment on it when it's $350 and when there are two pictures of it in the OP.[/QUOTE] the OP is a tool that honestly though the person in the article's name was "trayvon" and tried to make a (completely nonsensical) joke out of it so there's that to consider...
It sounds like the police were just doing their jobs, acting as security guards for a high end business. The store though is screwed. Their clerk has no excuse. If he thinks it's phony ID why did he sell the belt? If he's going to say whatever and sell the belt, why call the cops after? It smells like a setup, like he wanted to teach this customer a lesson, ie "Don't come here anymore, we don't want your type".
I like how facepunch has to bate every thread into an argument about whether it was/wasn't racism. I'm not saying this situation isn't racist, it's just retarded people are even arguing over it.
[QUOTE=SgtCr4zyGunz;42624164]lol if this thread was about gypsies FP would turn into a lynch mob if it was about a white person getting racially profiled it would devolve into white teenagers acting indignant and making dumb tumblr jokes and strawmanning about institutional racism.[/QUOTE] i think there have already been 5 examples of that just this week omg white person gets called cracker racism is a 2 way street!
[QUOTE=Riller;42624506]Expensive watches often have added functionality in the form of date counter, stopwatch-function, waterproofing and so forth. A belt is a piece of dead cow with holes poked in it. It holds pants up.[/QUOTE] itt: what is fashion???
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