In Amazon Go, no one thinks I'm stealing
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#2I feel horrible for what she went through as a child, and still goes through. But. For this article, if felt she was over-analyzing and extrapolating a bit much.
This one felt borderline unnecessary and hyperbolic:
"No one cared what I was doing. Is this what it feels like to shop when you're not black? "
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#3This has echoes for me of the Twitter thread and subsequent NYT article from last week about how Sears' approach to home sales was a boon to black people in the Jim Crow-era US.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/20/us/sears-jim-crow-racism-...
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#4I feel horrible for what she went through as a child, and still goes through. But. For this article, if felt she was over-analyzing and extrapolating a bit much. This one felt borderline unnecessary and hyperbolic: "No one cared what I was doing. Is this what it feels like to shop when you're not black? "
That's where I stopped reading. The answer is "no."
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#5I feel horrible for what she went through as a child, and still goes through. But. For this article, if felt she was over-analyzing and extrapolating a bit much. This one felt borderline unnecessary and hyperbolic: "No one cared what I was doing. Is this what it feels like to shop when you're not black? "
That's where I stopped reading. The answer is "no."
I would say the answer is "yes." Or at least that's how I feel when I shop, and I'm not black.
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#6I feel horrible for what she went through as a child, and still goes through. But. For this article, if felt she was over-analyzing and extrapolating a bit much. This one felt borderline unnecessary and hyperbolic: "No one cared what I was doing. Is this what it feels like to shop when you're not black? "
That's where I stopped reading. The answer is "no."
Are you black, jtbayly? If not, are there other reasons why the people in the (presumably white) majority (unjustly) profile you and pay wary attention to you? (If I may ask, of course.)
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#7I feel horrible for what she went through as a child, and still goes through. But. For this article, if felt she was over-analyzing and extrapolating a bit much. This one felt borderline unnecessary and hyperbolic: "No one cared what I was doing. Is this what it feels like to shop when you're not black? "
That's where I stopped reading. The answer is "no."
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#8Profiling sucks.
In this case though, I'd say you're simply trading one injustice for another.
You go from the ephemeral experience of having a few underpaid lackeys mistrust you, to having an eternal database of everything you buy owned by a third party.
Then again, it's getting pretty ridiculous everywhere. The local supermarkets around me - they've gradually stripped real checkout operators away and replaced them with self service booths that each have LCD's beaming a picture of my own face at myself whilst I shop, with a scary "you're being watched!" banner across the bottom.
It really bothers me that everyday 'essential' things seem to be full of pain points like this for no discernible reason. We have private companies launching rockets, supercomputers in our pockets, and so on and so forth, and yet the "human experience" seems to be constantly degrading. What can we do about this?
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#9I feel horrible for what she went through as a child, and still goes through. But. For this article, if felt she was over-analyzing and extrapolating a bit much. This one felt borderline unnecessary and hyperbolic: "No one cared what I was doing. Is this what it feels like to shop when you're not black? "
I don't understand this sentiment. The author describes her lived experience shopping as a black woman throughout her life. She also points to recent publicized examples of black people being subject to poor treatment while engaging in normal activities. If you had lived your entire life being weary of store clerks, having inculcated that lesson in childhood, why wouldn't her observation be both genuine and important?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's where I stopped reading. The answer is "no."
I would say the answer is "yes." Or at least that's how I feel when I shop, and I'm not black.
People should stop talking for others when they are unelected or not nominated.
Just because she feels that way, doesn't mean every black person does. Maybe many do, but I don't think it is productive to speak for other people's experience.
Of course when speaking for oneself, then it is fine to say anything.