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The case of the racist blackcurrant drink

Tipperary animal lover

https://twitter.com/EbunJoseph1/status/1211667276585406464

Racism alive and well in galway bay hotel where 50% of the staff are from other parts of the world, can someone explain how can a glass of ribena be misconstrued as racism, god help us in this little country entertaining race baiters like this. But looking at this ladies twitter feed she seems to find racism in everything irish. Happy new year to all boardies.

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tuxy

katiek102010 wrote: »

Ffs really, she's pathetic.

As someone who has witnessed genuine racial abuse and having suffered abuse due to my ethnicity, idiots like her just trivialise a very serious issue.

She needs to grow up

Why would she? UCD has given her both a PhD and job in being constantly offended by everything.
It's extremely profitable.

Quantum Erasure

Oh my God, Karen! you can't just ask people why they're white.

Guy:Incognito

Bobblehats wrote: »

Wondering if these lads got served up some of the auld blackcurrent last night:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/yknzA499BAgG/

Sounds like a wild time all the same. Happy new year!

Are the white lads African too , or just the black lads?

Bobblehats

SaintLeibowitz wrote: »

Best just stay there . No one wants to read that moronic tripe.

I’d say more than wants to see that tripe. For every action a reaction

JohnCleary

Imagine the outrage among protestants if she was served orange?

Still waters

Bobblehats wrote: »

Wondering if these lads got served up some of the auld blackcurrent last night:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/yknzA499BAgG/

Sounds like a wild time all the same. Happy new year!

They should be hauled out to sea in a boat and sunk, you'd think we have enough problems of our own scumbags without importing from darkest Africa

lalababa

How could a cordial that looks exactly like red wine be served as red wine? Amazeballs! How could it happen?
On another note , how is this racist?
"Is it because eyes black?"
It's because she's an idiot.

SaintLeibowitz

Bobblehats wrote: »

I think that’s where all Ireland’s racists hole up. Like all ten of us

Best just stay there . No one wants to read that moronic tripe.

Bobblehats

SaintLeibowitz wrote: »

Jesus wept. Lotta vile racists on that site.

I think that’s where all Ireland’s racists hole up. Like all ten of us

Earthhorse

boring accountant wrote: »

The question you should be asking me is have I ever seen someone purposefully mess with a customer's food or drink, because that's the real issue here. I haven't. Ever. If you have a bad customer you want to get them out the door as soon as possible. You don't want them calling you over giving you grief and you certainly don't want to give them the high ground by actually f-ing with them. The idea that this was deliberate is far far less likely than the idea it was an accident.

The reason I’m asking the question is because of the prevailing consensus on the thread that this is an easy mistake to make. But if that’s the case then why have I never encountered it? You suggested my experience as a customer was useless so I asked you had you ever encountered it. You hadn’t. So I’m going to suggest that this is, in fact, a difficult mistake to make, or more accurately, an unlikely incident to occur.

You haven’t ever experienced someone messing with a customer's order. Nor have you ever experienced someone mistaking cordial for wine (in whatever manner). So I find your conclusion that the latter is far less likely one I don’t agree with.

Like I say, it’s a bizarre incident. But this is somehow a contentious thing to say.

PonchoMcHoncho wrote: »

I've gotten unwashed glasses, half drank drinks that ended up on the tray to the table rather than to the dishwasher, other peoples drinks from a different table. In a busy restaurant if something gets laid down in the wrong spot for whatever reason someone else will pick it up. It's probably happened before but this is the first time it's turned into a public incident because it's the first time someone decided it constitutes a hate crime!

Likewise I’ve received things I didn’t order or not received my order at all. But again the point is about how the prevailing consensus is that this is an easy mistake to make yet we’ve never heard of it happening before. Perhaps, as you say it’s because no one publicised previous incidents. Either way, it’s bizarre.

SaintLeibowitz

Bobblehats wrote: »

Wondering if these lads got served up some of the auld blackcurrent last night:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/yknzA499BAgG/

Sounds like a wild time all the same. Happy new year!

Jesus wept. Lotta vile racists on that site.

katiek102010

Ffs really, she's pathetic.

As someone who has witnessed genuine racial abuse and having suffered abuse due to my ethnicity, idiots like her just trivialise a very serious issue.

She needs to grow up

realitykeeper

This post uses black ink on a white background. How racist is that!?

Raconteuse

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

Utterly bizarre brain farts can happen though. I’ve made mistakes before where I can’t understand how I made them. When the charge is racism, one must be sure they are right and the oddness extends both ways here. As a mistake, it’s odd but as a racist gesture, it’s just as odd. IMO, on balance the benefit of the doubt should be given here. Calling somebody racist is serious.

Well I'm not accusing anyone of racism and she behaves like an absolute clown, as do her supporters. And trying to destroy the entire hotel's reputation is utterly vindictive. But the error just doesn't make sense. Could have been an error but could have been someone acting the eejit too - for whatever reason.

It's silly of people to get so snarky with people for simply questioning (I don't mean you) just because it doesn't suit them. Like saying people have an agenda, ffs. :rolleyes:

Bobblehats

And the blackcurrent did flow ..

Quantum Erasure

road_high wrote: »

What is the PC term now? I guess Coloured or Darky currants is even more “offensive”?

undercurrants of racism there all-right

Signore Fancy Pants

Theres a fair few of her supporters labelling anyone with an opposite view as being racist.

They are also apologising on behalf of the rest of Ireland because of the incident. It's mind boggling.

She also deleted her apology to the hotel for "my Tweets yesterday" but did not specifically apologise for the accusation of deliberate racism.

She also maintains she has a solid case against them anyway, due to being served the "display" wine. Basically HACCP or some other unfit for consumption nonsense.

But its ok....she wants to just forget about it now. Thats not how it works love, you put it into the public domain, you can deal with the fallout.

Irish Guitarist

I once ordered a vegetable lasagna in a restaurant from the menu. When I cut into it I saw that it was beef. Beef lasagna wasn't written anywhere on the menu. I thought it was strange that I had more trouble getting something that was on the menu than something that wasn't. Just because something seems a bit odd doesn't mean someone had it in for me.

Then again I don't have a job that relies on people being racist. This woman sounds like she's always on the look out for material to use. If she went on Twitter and talked about how nice people are she'd be broke.

Augme

tuxy wrote: »

You don't know that a shop/restaurant/hotel sometimes display boxes/bottles for advertising purposes that don't have the actual product inside?

Sure it was stupid but only someone with an agenda would take the racism angle in that situation.

I get that they might not have the actual product in them, what I don't get is his they end up with another product in them. Also, I've seen cordial decanted into clear glass bottles that can easily pour a shot quantity.

Can't say I have ever heard of cordial being poured into a empty wine bottle and I've never seen anywhere that has pre mixed cordial either.

road_high

sabat wrote: »

I'm open to correction here but didn't she arrive here as part of the great anchor-baby asylum swindle of the late 90s/early 00s?

A lot of them did- and we are now truly bearing the fruits of that insanity right now

Bobblehats

Wondering if these lads got served up some of the auld blackcurrent last night:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/yknzA499BAgG/

Sounds like a wild time all the same. Happy new year!

PonchoMcHoncho

Earthhorse wrote: »

I have no agenda. I'm skeptical about their version of events.

Have you ever been in a situation where a customer received the wrong drink because someone poured it from a display bottle?

I've gotten unwashed glasses, half drank drinks that ended up on the tray to the table rather than to the dishwasher, other peoples drinks from a different table. In a busy restaurant if something gets laid down in the wrong spot for whatever reason someone else will pick it up. It's probably happened before but this is the first time it's turned into a public incident because it's the first time someone decided it constitutes a hate crime!

road_high

kildare lad wrote: »

Could you imagine if they mixed up her dessert , and brought her out a banana split .

Or a Blackforest Gateau with a black coffee on the side !

road_high

She really does nothing to help me overcome my held stereotype of Nigerians in Ireland. In fact she just reinforced it with another 10 ft of solid concrete

kildare lad

Could you imagine if they mixed up her dessert , and brought her out a banana split .

Paddy Cow

Signore Fancy Pants wrote: »

How many times have you heard this incident manifested as a racist tactic though?

Id wager never.

I also do not know what happened but she doubled down the racism card when she described being served by a black staff member.

She then called for all "Blacks" to visit the hotel to not let them "win".

Id believe the hotel before her tbh. Context is everything, she had everything to gain by going bananas and her job is the subject matter. Seizing the change to keep herself relevent.

I love how she sees drumming up business for the hotel as her somehow winning :pac: And she has a PhD

boring accountant

Earthhorse wrote: »

I have no agenda. I'm skeptical about their version of events.

Have you ever been in a situation where a customer received the wrong drink because someone poured it from a display bottle?

No, but I've poured drinks from display bottles after running out of others. If those bottles had been filled with Ribena without my knowledge then it would have certainly happened then.

The question you should be asking me is have I ever seen someone purposefully mess with a customer's food or drink, because that's the real issue here. I haven't. Ever. If you have a bad customer you want to get them out the door as soon as possible. You don't want them calling you over giving you grief and you certainly don't want to give them the high ground by actually f-ing with them. The idea that this was deliberate is far far less likely than the idea it was an accident.

Signore Fancy Pants

Earthhorse wrote: »

Have to say I find this really bizarre. I’ve ordered hundreds of glasses of wine in my brief few years drinking it. I’ve also been around people who drink it ordering it possibly thousands of times. Not once have we been mistakenly served blackcurrant cordial (from a display bottle or otherwise). Nor have I ever heard of this happening to anyone on a night out.

How many times have you heard this incident manifested as a racist tactic though?

Id wager never.

I also do not know what happened but she doubled down the racism card when she described being served by a black staff member.

She then called for all "Blacks" to visit the hotel to not let them "win".

Id believe the hotel before her tbh. Context is everything, she had everything to gain by going bananas and her job is the subject matter.

Seizing an opportunistic chance to keep herself relevent.

road_high

Higgins5473 wrote: »

Anyone know where this idiot got her doctorate? Groupon or one them? Wouldn’t mind picking one up, especially if there’s a January sale price.

Likely another useful Feminist/Social Studies graduate. Long gone are the days when Universities were bastions of real intelligence and analytical thought

Paddy Cow

boring accountant wrote: »

Have I ever witnessed a customer being served Ribena when they asked for wine? No, but anyone who says the hotel's story doesn't add up has an agenda.

I didn't have an agenda, I'd just never heard of a display bottle full of blackcurrant. If there was such a thing knocking around, then yes it is entirely plausible some staff member simply made a mistake. After looking at her twitter, I'd tend to side with the hotel over her.