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677 points saeedjabbar | 2 comments | 16 Jun 20 15:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

1. Grustaf ◴[16 Jun 20 21:46 UTC] No.23544628[source]▶

I didn’t understand the first bit, why did they think people confused the black man with his white colleague, and how could that possibly be “racist”?

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2. totetsu ◴[16 Jun 20 21:54 UTC] No.23544729[source]▶

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presumably because they looked from one to the other, and decided the colleague with the lest melanin was the CEO.

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