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T-Mobile Kicks Off Industry Robocall War With Network-Level Blocking and ID Tools (venturebeat.com)
T-Mobile is among the first U.S. telecom companies to announce plans to thwart pesky robocallers. From a report on VentureBeat: The move represents part of an industry-wide Robocall Strike Force set up by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last year to combat the 2 billion-plus automated calls U.S. consumers deal with each month. Other key members of the group include Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Verizon. T-Mobile's announcement comes 24 hours after the FCC voted to approve a new rule that would allow telecom companies to block robocallers who use fake caller ID numbers to conceal their true location and identity. From a report on WashingtonPost: The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday proposed new rules (PDF) that would allow phone companies to target and block robo-calls coming from what appear to be illegitimate or unassigned phone numbers. The rules could help cut down on the roughly 2.4 billion automated calls that go out each month -- many of them fraudulent, according to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai. "Robo-calls are the No. 1 consumer complaint to the FCC from members of the American public," he said, vowing to halt people who, in some cases, pretend to be tax officials demanding payments from consumers, or, in other cases, ask leading questions that prompt consumers to give up personal information as part of an identity theft scam.
I know a guy who works at a department store to help pay for his college expenses. He happens to be black. He helped an old woman put her items in her car and was very kind and respectful to her. You know what she said to him? She said "you know you're really nice, for a colored boy". This woman was old enough to remember the 1960s, Civil Rights, and all the progress made since then. No young person would say a thing like that unless they were just trying to pick a fight (and even then probably not - there are ways to pick fights that don't stain your reputation by making you known as a bigot).
Ooh! Ooh! Let me try too:
Yeah. A young person would not have complimented him at all. A young person would have treated him like a piece of sh!t. A young person would have looked at him as a barely human species, a member of the servant/lower classes, while they were busy trying to 'curate' a look for their hipster apartment at the department store. You know department stores have retro stuff. Old people shop there. A young person would have been living off money from Mommy and Daddy because they cannot afford the rent in their hipster neighborhood working at the local Whole Foods while their "Design" business takes off, or their scripts finally get used by someone who will pay, and not just used by their friends who run a storefront theater (while living off of their parents until Hollywood comes calling).
A young person would have been annoyed as hell about your friend because they are annoyed by everything and anything. They are annoyed because they know that they are worthless and need to degrade everyone and everything else to not feel so bad about themselves all the time. Young people have never learned what courtesy is and never think to compliment anyone but them selves. Young people can't even manage an Archie Bunker level backhanded compliment like the old person in your story.
How's that for a counter stereotype?
Keep working on your disdain and hatred for others who are not like you. I think you might be able to be a little more prejudice than you currently are. Not much more, you are very close to the maximum already.
Also, no one believes your story.
How's that? Did I do the stereotyping of a whole group of people right like you did?