In case you missed it, an Alabama man named Walter Carr set out to walk 20 miles to work after his car broke down because he didn’t want to miss his first day on the job with moving company Bellhops. So impressed and touched by Carr’s dedication and work ethic was Bellhops CEO Luke Marklin that he bought Carr a new car:
MOVING MOMENT: Emotional scene plays out as young man who walked 20 miles to his first day at work is gifted company CEO's personal car as thanks for his dedication to the job. https://t.co/4cqFiyFxaN pic.twitter.com/I2OOAaHWlO
— ABC News (@ABC) July 18, 2018
Now, you’d think that this story would manage to transcend petty bullsh*t. And for a lot of people, it does. But not for everyone.
There are people crapping on this story in the mentions and I'm about to lose my humanity. People suck https://t.co/Qu8zEBia5C
— UnwillingtoWorkBlackMan ???? (@NevilleD35) July 18, 2018
Slate chief political correspondent and CBS News analyst Jamelle Bouie, for one, thinks the appropriate reaction to this heartwarming story is to take a big ol’ crap on it:
Tired: Robust regional public transportation
Wired: The generosity of our benevolent capitalist overlords https://t.co/c9DotYSJJa
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) July 18, 2018
“You’ll only receive the barest social services once you demonstrate your absolute and total devotion to wage labor” is essentially just GOP orthodoxy.
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) July 18, 2018
god this. still a struggle to get even well-meaning folks to understand the unique circumstances of black folks and the unique properties of anti-black racism
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) July 18, 2018
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It takes a special kind of special to find something sinister in one man helping another. So congratulations, Jamelle. You’re officially special.
I mean, look at this.
He's crapping on the story of a guy being given a car because he wants to make a point about public transportation? pic.twitter.com/10xgRMuxRv
— RBe (@RBPundit) July 18, 2018
The only thing that could possibly make this worse is if people actually swallowed Bouie’s B.S. Oh, wait:
The equivalent of celebrating GoFundMe fundraising to pay people’s medical costs
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) July 18, 2018
So glad there was a camera there to capture the altruistic generosity of the shy CEO.
— Thomas Kavanagh (@tdkavanagh) July 18, 2018
Yeah, I wondered which Aston Martin the boss went and bought himself that same afternoon…
— Chip Faust (@ChipFaust) July 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/LCDCAlabama/status/1019574111431950338
This is basically Undercover Boss in a nutshell. As my buddy @idislikestephen once said, the ultimate in corporate greed is wanting to be loved.
— Linda Holmes (@lindaholmes) July 18, 2018
So is that CEO going to pay for gas, insurance, maintenance, etc too?
— Amanda Kass (@Amanda_Kass) July 18, 2018
Horrifyingly gross—and whatever happened to “is given”? “Gifted” makes my skin crawl…
— Alex aka Muscato (@CafeMuscato) July 18, 2018
Yep. Question for CEO, why not pay him enough so he—and all other employees—can afford to buy a car?
— Dan Salmon (@DanSalmon) July 18, 2018
Because why discuss what actually happened when you can try to score cheap political points instead?
Oh, here's professional black man @jbouie asking why there's no subway system through sparse Alabama bc he hates capitalism. Also, if he were being honest, he hates that a white man had the nerve to help a black man. H/t @RBPundit pic.twitter.com/oIBH446Y5u
— UnwillingtoWorkBlackMan ???? (@NevilleD35) July 18, 2018
The kid had a 20 mile drive. No one, ever, is going to put a bus / train route that reaches out 20 miles into nowhere. Especially if there's no demand.
Bouie knows this.
But he had to make his anti-capitalist crack anyway.
He's garbage.
— RBe (@RBPundit) July 18, 2018
Leave it to lefties to try to find ugliness in something beautiful.
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