Is this photo of MLB star Adam Jones eating a Popeye’s fried chicken cake racist?
Well, according to Bloomberg’s Benjamin Penn, it’s not but only because it “needed watermelon as one of the sides”:
Is this racist? Can someone give me a ruling on this? http://t.co/nnTI24t9pL
— Gleichmonster (@Gleichmonster) August 1, 2013
@Gleichmonster No. Needed watermelon as one of the sides to pass my threshold.
— Ben Penn (@benjaminpenn) August 1, 2013
Wow. We would originally have chalked that tweet up to sarcasm or youthful indiscretion, but these new rules find that this is 100% racist:
Foot, meet mouth. You’re done.
— Drew Powers, CFP® (@PowersByDrew) September 3, 2019
Your move, Bloomberg:
Amazing that @Bloomberg would willingly employ someone so openly bigoted as @benjaminpenn.
— Dan Goldwasser (@dgoldwas) September 3, 2019
This will happen any minute now:
I give him less than 5 minutes before he full blown "locks"/"protects" his tweets and goes private.
— Cory M (@IToldYouMonsoon) September 3, 2019
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And a screenshot for posterity:
Wow pic.twitter.com/JTa7Ka509I
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) September 3, 2019
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 3, 2019
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