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My late grandparents survived the Holocaust, so the fact that stories like this are still happening today is surreal if not entirely surprising. But I must admit I find the handwringing over whether or not it’s OK to punch Nazis to be kinda sickening. Dude believes that all non-whites should be removed from America in

No, many people were watching and live-tweeting their reactions. I know because I have friends I follow on Twitter who love this show (::shrugs::) and who were like 'WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK CBS" the minute this stuff aired. Sure lots of people love to jump on a good old fashioned Twitter rage storm, but the origin of

Undercover Boss has already shown Hooters and Tilted Kilt, but this one was, by far, the worst. It must be an awful place to work. The managers all talked about how hard it was to hang onto staff, and two women quit during the one night he worked at one of the restaurants.

"We feel bad that she had to LASH OUT this way."

Shared this with a friend from across the country who actually works at a comics shop and also happens to be black, and has many amusing stories about casual nerd racism. He had a pretty good comment I'm going to paraphrase here.

Him: "Okay, so if my shop had a room that everyone called 'dead nigger storage', think

Exactly! I'm not saying calling a sketchy room the "rape room" is a totally awesome and hilarious thing to do, but the real issue is how they reacted when she asked them to stop. Another major issue is the implicit misogyny when a bunch of men fire a woman because they think she's overreacting to a rape joke.

Just a joke... a 'joke' isn't something you say because it's rebellious/weird/quirky to you. A joke is funny. A joke is something that makes you and other people laugh. A joke's entire purpose is to creature humor.

To everyone saying it is just a joke: That's the point.

That is why I bribe them with peanuts.