r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Apr 24 '26

Meme needing explanation Lois?

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u/Mountain-Resource656 Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26

“I, a corrections officer for a region in which there is a statistically anomalously high black population, express surprise when it turns out that the black inmate turned out to be innocent all along, because usually I don’t happen to see that happen, given the fact that all my prisoners are post-conviction, and am phrasing this as ‘when your black inmate ends up released because it turns out the prosecution messed up and they were innocent all along’ with an image of my face very surprised but don’t worry it’s not racist because I legitimately see a lot of bad black people”

Edit: also, pointedly, other commenters are saying that in the original video it was actually s response to the man getting slapped for saying this, and not about the man saying this, so the actual original person wasn’t being sexist but the person taking the screenshot was just some rando

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u/lalla_kat Apr 24 '26

Not at all a close comparison

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u/Numerous_Stranger488 Apr 24 '26

yes because it's more socially acceptable to be sexist (against either gender) than it is to be racist

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u/lalla_kat Apr 24 '26

One is a systemic judgement that may or may not be true and the other is a pattern of choices that free individuals make. Being happy that a father did the right thing and acknowledging that they see many fathers make poor choices is far from sexism.

That comparison is the same kind of victim card whining that obnoxious hyper « feminists » make

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u/Doidleman53 Apr 24 '26

No this is showing that even in the same country, people's experiences in a profession can vary wildly depending on geographic location.

This type of thing is called an analogy.

Try thinking a little more.