“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
They’re building what’s called an analogy. They present a hypothetical meme that would clearly be racist and sexist against black men. It’s structured the same way as the meme in the original post because this makes it really easy to see the meaning of the analogy.
After parsing the analogy, you should agree that yes, that would clearly be both racist and sexist against black men. It should logically follow that the original meme is clearly sexist against men.
She’s shocked because she has a preconceived expectation of how men are going to behave. That’s objectively sexist. She doesn’t get a free pass just because she sees it all the time, that just means her profession has nurtured a sexist perception.
Thank you for explaining my analogy! Small point of order, though, but according to other commenters the nurse from the video was actually reacting to the wife slapping her husband for saying so, rather than acting surprised at a man being supportive, so the nurse has been getting a lot of heat for something the screenshotter obfuscated
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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