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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

White guy avi

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Was waiting in line to contest a ticket for dismal at one of the tiny micro-cities inside Houston. Kid you not, it was just a bunch of white folks walking out no-contest and another line of AAs getting filed up to actually try their cases.

I’m sure this was a coincidence. Also, the sheriff looking interchangeable with the Sheriff Rosco from Dukes of Hazzard, a pure coincidence.

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Rezoie@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Is this even English cause I didn’t understand a single word.

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- ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Its perfectly clear, i can Rephrase it in midwest english:
  
  I was at the courthouse in my neighborhood to try to get a ticket dismissed. You wouldn’t believe it, but there were a bunch of white people getting dismissed easily while African Americans all had court dates set to have trials.
  Surely this was a coincidence, especially with a town sherreif who looks like a good ol boy with a gun. Certainly coincidence.
  
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  - Rezoie@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    ohhhhh
    
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  - echodot@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    No contest isn’t a dismissal. It’s just means that you are not pleading guilty, but are accepting the courts ruling.
    
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    ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Context implied to me that a dismissal was meant by no contest, despite it being the literal phrase we hse when accepting the court’s opinion with no contest.
    
    Maybe I’m wrong, Idk, text is tricky.
    
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- UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Keep trying. You’ll figure it out
  
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Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That might be true. But it’s important to note that we want the world to be more kind to everyone, and not universally unforgiving.

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HowAbt2day@futurology.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
My Daisy Duke shorts always get me a pass, even when I don’t get around to trim around the hedges.

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protist@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah this looks like a written appeal so not sure what race has to do with it

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- pebbles@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If the appeal has a name on it then there could still be bias. Somewhat related: I heard job applications still got biased reviews with names redacted because the contents were culturally specific enough.
  
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  - Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Lmao there are cases of people applying with a more white-sounding name and same rest of resume to get accepted.
    
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Beardsley@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Them Duke boys are at eet again! Subjugating minorities with a thin veil of fair ground.

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