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    Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the SnarkTracie Egan Morrissey
    10/23/13 12:42pm

    People: commenting on the cost of the belt or the look of the belt is really not important. Stop. It would be the same as if I got arrested after I bought a $300 video card at Fry's just because of my ethnicity. There are plenty of things that we can judge people for spending $300 on if we're dicks.

    Let me list things I've spent $300 on so you can all judge me:

    - A video card (it was really good at the time)

    - A speaker (yes, one.)

    - Headphones (still the best damn headphones I've ever purchased)

    - Shoes

    - Dinner for two at Daniel

    - Half an iPad (I needed $300 more for the other half)

    - A helicopter ride

    - Extra slacks to go with a tailored suit

    - An iPhone 5 w/ 32GB (yes, I use it all)

    - A Galaxy Nexus (might have been $200, but whatever)

    ... and a whole lot of other things.

    The point isn't what he bought. It was that he was harassed for buying it. By judging him for his purchasing behavior, you're still putting him in a shitty position. I spent TENS OF THOUSANDS of dollars buying a German car that I absolutely did not need (but I love). Imagine if the first thing I got afterward was a two hour detention by the cops because I'm not the right ethnicity.

    Stop being dicks, for chrissake.

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      TheFilthyGoatAri Schwartz: Dark Lord of the Snark
      10/23/13 12:49pm

      You can get a helicopter ride for 300 bucks? I know what I'm doing for my birthday.

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      NightNinjaAri Schwartz: Dark Lord of the Snark
      10/23/13 12:55pm

      How did you manage $300 for two people at Daniel? Not that your point wasn't important or anything, but I mean, it's Daniel.

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    InCaseYouDidn'tKnowTheyCallMeTheJackalTracie Egan Morrissey
    10/23/13 12:25pm

    So much yuck. His debit card was approved for the purchase, he showed ID, the store made its money.

    Some people are such assholes.

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      ParisofAmericaInCaseYouDidn'tKnowTheyCallMeTheJackal
      10/23/13 12:33pm

      Not to mention he was responsible in seeing something he wanted and saving up for said desired item. What.The.Hell!

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      TyrannosaurusBataarInCaseYouDidn'tKnowTheyCallMeTheJackal
      10/23/13 12:34pm

      Also, is $300 a lot of money now? Like, is it really inconceivable that the average person on the street might have saved $300 through legitimate means? Sure, it's a lot for a belt, but this isn't a $60,000 Birkin bag.

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    themeaghanshow: season 3Tracie Egan Morrissey
    10/23/13 12:29pm

    omg. If I were Ferragamo's PR person, I would send him that belt free of charge. 'Cause we all know Barney's will issue some lame non-apology if that even.

    GET THIS YOUNG MAN HIS BELT, WORLD.

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      CPR14themeaghanshow: season 3
      10/23/13 12:34pm

      This is actually a brilliant PR moment for Ferragamo's if they can take it and run...

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      LadySparrowthemeaghanshow: season 3
      10/23/13 12:35pm

      Shit, send him a half dozen belts.

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    ItsARampageLanaTracie Egan Morrissey
    10/23/13 12:26pm

    I am beginning to suspect all the white people who said racism was Over (tm) might not have been speaking from knowledge.

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      CBGItsARampageLana
      10/23/13 12:29pm

      BUT THE PRESIDENT IS BLACK. WHY CAN'T YOU SEE HOW BLACK THE PRESIDENT IS?

      :/

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      ItsARampageLanaCBG
      10/23/13 12:31pm

      I DIDN'T NOTICE HE WAS BLACK BECAUSE I DON'T SEE COLOR, MANNNNN. I'D CALL ANY PRESIDENT RACIALLY-NEUTRAL TERMS LIKE "CHICAGO GANGSTER THUG" AND INSIST THEY WERE SECRETLY FOREIGN.

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    TyrannosaurusBataarTracie Egan Morrissey
    10/23/13 12:25pm

    I really hope he wins and makes it rain Ferragamo.

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      MojiMojiTyrannosaurusBataar
      10/23/13 12:33pm

      And I hope the clerk who racially profiled him gets canned.

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      ISpeakJiveTyrannosaurusBataar
      10/23/13 12:40pm

      I can only imagine how the conversation with the police went:

      "Hi, I'd like to call and report a man's credit card fraud, I work at Barneys on Madison."

      "Alright, was he using a card with a woman's name?"

      "No."

      "Did you cross check it with a state issued I.D.?"

      "Yes."

      "What seems to be the problem?"

      "It was a young black man buying a $300 designer belt. That's highly irregular for me."

      "...... We're on it."

      GIF
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    girladywomanTracie Egan Morrissey
    10/23/13 12:26pm

    Multiple feels here. As a black person, I know the feeling all too well of entering a store & being followed around by clerks wondering if I'm actually going to buy or just steal something. Racial profiling is disgusting & unfair, and it makes me too angry to put into words.

    Also, as a cheap person, I kind of want to beat him for spending that much on a belt. That's a student loan payment, son.

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      Tyrant37girladywoman
      10/23/13 12:37pm

      You know one day I was in Marshalls and I saw this white guy in the handbag section with 10 handbags, the premium brands, 5 lined up on each arm, this guy then runs right by me, out the door into a waiting car. The store manager runs over to me as this guys exits the store to ask me if I saw anything, how many bags did I think he stole, etc. That moment caused me to laugh and laugh, so you are so busy watching brown people that you dont find it the least bit odd, to see a guy in the handbag section with 5 bags lined up on each arm. Its not like you can try on handbags. Any buffoon would know that doesnt look right. I noticed him immediately, the second I walked into the store, because his behavior was suspicious, not his skin color.

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      schadenfreudeinggirladywoman
      10/23/13 12:46pm

      Jesus. See this is exactly the kind of thing that folks mean when they discuss white privilege. I was trying to explain this concept the other day (to help explain male privilege to a white male) and was probably doing a shitty job but this is a perfect example.

      Do you/would you ever call the salespeople out on it?

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    zu_zuTracie Egan Morrissey
    10/23/13 12:27pm

    Having worked retail, I can't imagine how a clerk could check his debit card against his ID and still assume he's committing fraud. Unless the clerk is a racist/classist ass.

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      Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the Snarkzu_zu
      10/23/13 12:51pm

      LOL. I went into a Zegna store and started asking the clerk some questions about the construction, and he basically started ignoring me. I mean, I was wearing a t-shirt and jeans and looked pretty ratty, but the guy outright ignored me and my wife and our friend.

      The funny thing is, he's a very successful biglaw lawyer making a ton. I'm a successful project manager making a ton. My wife is a physician. He just ignored us because I asked questions that he deemed beneath them.

      The best part? I was right: they do fuse, which is crap for suits of that price.

      So yeah, you get some dick clerks.

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      antoinettemariezu_zu
      10/23/13 1:08pm

      Also, who checks IDs for debit transactions? I only check for credit because debit you put in a pin. And I'm sorry as a clerk, you don't get paid enough to give a shit. If it was stolen, then banks handle that shit.

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    ameagaTracie Egan Morrissey
    10/23/13 12:37pm

    And even further beyond the incomprehensible racist assholery of the store clerks, I'm baffled WHY THEY CARE WHAT HE BOUGHT.

    I work retail, and I giveth no fucks what you buy from me. As long as you have valid payment and ID, the world is your oyster. Not my life, not my business.

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      MichaelUpNYameaga
      10/23/13 12:45pm

      Yup having worked retail, its so true. If your cash is good, if you credit card goes through, its all over. Buy what you want, and thanks for shopping here!

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      ameagaMichaelUpNY
      10/23/13 12:59pm

      Oh, you want to buy two pairs of the same shoe, one pair to wear on your feet and one on your hands so you can walk around like a quadruped? Great! Let me ring you up right now and get you on your way.

      It may sound apathetic, but I mean it in the nicest way possible: I sincerely don't care about anything you are buying, the reasoning behind it, or what you intend to do with it. I will probably forget you as soon as you leave my line of sight, and that's really how I prefer it. We share a brief, fleeting moment in time, and then go about our lives as if we'd never met in the first place. Farewell, sweet stranger!

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    Mrs. BeetonTracie Egan Morrissey
    10/23/13 12:38pm

    An attractive college student buying a single luxury fashion accessory is about the least suspicious thing in the world.

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      BoSephusMrs. Beeton
      10/23/13 1:37pm

      Right? How you could see the time and care he puts in to his eyebrows and be surprised that he would save up for a nice belt?

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      lawloverMrs. Beeton
      10/23/13 1:42pm

      Especially an engineering student. He probably comes off as quite smart and educated, if you're not a racist store clerk who can't get past the color of his skin.

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    jesspinkmanTracie Egan Morrissey
    10/23/13 12:36pm

    the amount of racism, especially from the NYPD I feel, is do disturbing and disgusting. Multiple forms of ID and his bank cleared it? COME ON. I spent the night in NYPD jail a few weeks ago (something really stupid) and the amount of racism I saw made me want to throw up in my mouth. One girl who was 15 had gotten abused by the officer who arrested her and when she threated to tell someone, he flat out told her he was a cop and no one would believe her.

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      Good Shot Red Twojesspinkman
      10/23/13 12:56pm

      Yes. This.

      It's been a couple of years since I spent a night in jail in NYC (for possesion), but the police here are hella racist. I was randomly stopped on the street and frisked for weapons but when a bag of pot showed up (not a weapon last I checked) I was arrested for "public display". Can't wait to move, west coast is the best coast!

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      jesspinkmanGood Shot Red Two
      10/23/13 1:06pm

      yeah, I have witnessed and heard multiple stop and frisk incidents that are super suspect. Probable cause my ass. anyone who believes the NYPD doesn't racially profile is living in another universe.

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