This show is fucking stupid.
Big Brother walks around and makes sure you're doing everything in accordance of what is acceptable by society. One show they were pestering some guy because he was gonna buy booze for some teens.
If they ever approach me, I'm going to break their fucking camera in two.
lulz at people who think this shit don't happen. I have witnessed shit like this three times pretty fucking bluntly. Once when I was buying car seats at babies-r-us.
The manager was the cashier as I was paying and a black kid walked in with baggy pants so the manager called one of the associates to follow him because he looked suspicious (he didn't he looked like a black kid wearing baggy pants), I ended up having to go grab something else and this black suspicious kid was just meeting up his mom or sister or something. . . . very suspicious.
Another time my mom went to elder-beerman and was trying on clothes only to have a sales person barge in on her while she was trying clothes on and accused her of theft. . . why? Well she is hispanic and that was the only difference between her and the white women trying on clothes so logic would dictate that the motivation to accuse her would be race.
The last time was for a customer of mine who had his accounts closed and was accused of being illegal because he is a hispanic roofer. I re opened the guys accounts, only to have the same dip shit re close them and he threatened to call the cops becuase of him being illegal. . . the guy asked him to call the cops to prove he wasn't and so he would stop closing the accounts. . . the manager never called lol.
YES IT HAPPENS BLUNTLY.
I used to get profiled when I would go into stores sometimes, particularly when I was younger. I wish I could say it was because I'm black, but since I'm not black that makes it pretty hard. I'm 36 now and it rarely happens anymore, probably because not many 36 year old white males are stealing shit out of stores. However, just a couple of weeks ago I walked into a gas station to grab an energy drink and didn't like their selection. After a few minutes I started to walk out and the guy got all suspicious and said "Can I help you" in a fucked up tone. If I was black, it would have been easy for me to assume it was because of my skin color, and I think when that happens to a black person they almost always make that false assumption.
If a 40 year old black man in a suit walks into a store followed by a 20 year old white man wearing baggy clothes with piercings and tats - who do you think security is going to watch? But that's still profiling, right? The truth is, not every time you're profiled are you being profiled for your skin color alone. There are a lot of cues that security/police look for, most of which are developed over time from experience so it's foolish to dismiss them as being based on race alone.
Also, don't forget that these stores review their security tapes so they see who is stealing all of their shit. After awhile it would be impossible for them not to recognize the demographics of the people stealing. Should they ignore that? Should we strip search granny at the airport and ignore the young arab males just because we don't want to offend anyone? Should police in Detroit stop pulling me over when I go back to my old neighborhood even though most white males in that area are there to buy drugs or whores?
tldr; Profiling is normal and unavoidable so get over it.
I pointed out the only difference was that she was Hispanic why weren't the white woman having their dressing room raided which is against any store policy?
you didn't address the facts that i presented instead you went on a rant about profiling I was speaking about racism. . . stupid fucking argument is stupid.
Also what about the mexican guy that had valid ID's that I was able to verfiy? Why would an illegal ask you to call the police to prove that he is indeed legal? Why would you not call the police when the "illegal" insist that you do? oh right he had no grounds to suspect illegal immigrant other than race. . . again there was no profiling only racism.
I managed a cell phone store downtown and my customers were predominantly black, I had the store broken into once during my 3 years there and the culprits were white. Also my Losses due to theft were no more or no less than a predominantly white trafficed area so your "profiling of blacks or other non-whites" is retarded. There is the right way to profile and the wrong way you seem to find the wrong way to be effective.
Anyways, here is one of my favorite ones. If only more people were like that kid at 5:08.
Stuck on the Road: Who Would You Help? - YouTube
Don't see why people are bashing this show so much..I've watched just about all of the different "episodes" and I think it's pretty cool. I mean, it just let's us see how fucked up some can be. Yeah, a few of you said that profiling will always exist. Well no shit..but that doesn't make it RIGHT..
And why does it matter that they use actors..? The whole purpose of the show is to see what the people who AREN'T actors do (aka the people who don't know they are being recorded). Even if actors weren't used, people would react the exact same way.
Honestly, sometimes I feel like I'm surrounded by a bunch of fuckin morons on this forum. Get out there and you'll see that there are great people from different ethnic backgrounds. This isn't the fuckin 1800's anymore.
Anyways, here is one of my favorite ones. If only more people were like that kid at 5:08.
Anyways, here is one of my favorite ones. If only more people were like that kid at 5:08.
I mean how naive are you reallY? People stereotype other people because that is the only realistic way to operate. It's akin to the gazelle telling the other gazelle that they shouldn't stereotype lions just because some of their friends got eaten by lions in the past.
I'm not into the US racewar, but were I live we have arabs, turks, palestianians and just like blacks they are much more criminal and violent statistically (a lot more), so naturally people here take that into account and tend to be wary around them. Fail to do so and you're likely to end up a victim. Then the other problem here is that they all dress the same way, so even if you're not the thug type you still look like the thug type. Now if I met one or more of these people sharply dressed and with articulate speech I certainly wouldn't cross the street. And before some of you accuse me of being a sheltered racist, I used to live smack in the middle of an immigrant ghetto and got no flack since I didn't give two shits about the thugs and kept thinking that I'd rather go down fighting than moving an inch in fear.
At least the video you posted was a more realistic scenario. This one is better than the OP's but still a crock of shit. Of course people stereotype, it is our human instinct, you think that whites are the only ones guilty of this? If so you are just as ignorant as the videos posted in this thread.
Let them make another one of these shows, except this time. Go park a luxury car in a crowded neighborhood near the Bronx. Hire a white actor to leave his car unattended and black actor to act like he's stealing it. ..............Then quickly count how many of the black bystanders whip out their cell phones to call the police.
Sound like a fun show?
By the way, I LOL'd hard at the idea of grown ass men not knowing how to change a fucking tire. Talk about a failure at life.
Haha man I think you took what I said out of context. For the record, I am white (if it matters). I definitely did not say that whites are the only ones guilty of this. Not at ALL. I completely agree with you. Again, I was just pointing out that it is unfortunate that this sort of profiling exists, but I do realize that there is little we can do about it.