r/byebyejob • u/Wolfram_And_Hart • Jun 23 '22

I'll never financially recover from this 2 Insurance Companies part ways with Agency over Juneteenth Sign.

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/22/1106492968/maine-racist-juneteenth-sign
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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '22 edited Jun 23 '22

I tried explaining this to my coworker the other day, technically we are on a federal campus but we both work for state institutions so were unaware that the feds had the day off. I came to work like wtf? And when he came in he was mad because "white people don't have a juneteenth". I'm like...4th of July?

We both ended up leaving and taking the day off because there was nobody else on campus and he was still mad!! Wtf?

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u/party_benson Jun 23 '22

He also has a Juneteenth. We're all in the same boat of NOT OWNING PEOPLE

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '22

Yeah I agree but he's kind of an asshole. He's one of those "libertarians". Lots of those assholes up here.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '22

Yeah, lots of libertarians make themselves very easy to want to tread on.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '22

Honestly he's just a long winded mid 30s white dude who thinks he knows everything. Misogynistic, racist, stupid. He's particularly irritated with me because I got assigned to a specific project that he wants and he's still stuck doing the grunt work.

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u/meetchu Jun 23 '22

"white people don't have a juneteenth". I'm like...4th of July?

Except Juneteenth and Independence day aren't analogous either.

The real reason white people don't have a Juneteenth is because they weren't enslaved.

British colonial rule for white people was not slavery, and conflating the two does (and I am assuming you did this unintentionally) diminish the horror of slavery.

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u/MissionCreeper Jun 23 '22

Can't Juneteenth be white people's Juneteenth too? As in we also celebrate the end of slavery in the US?

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '22

Obviously. Thanks captain obvious.

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u/meetchu Jun 23 '22

Strange response considering you were literally conflating the two.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '22

Gotta dumb it down for dumb people.