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> A bizarre echo of North Korea’s “three generations of punishment” doctrine could be seen in the boycotts of Holy Land grocery, a well-known hummus maker in Minneapolis. In recent weeks it’s been abandoned by clients and seen its lease pulled because of racist tweets made by the CEO’s 14 year-old daughter eight years ago.

Seeing stuff like this makes me wonder why people keep using social media at all.

It’s terrible that this guy’s daughter made racist posts 8 years ago, but we have no idea what kind of person she is today. She could be doing community organizing against police brutality and it wouldn’t matter at all.

The posterity of childhood is one of the most dystopian aspects of our technology-driven society. It’s like a 2020 version of the Scarlet Letter.

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> Seeing stuff like this makes me wonder why people keep using social media at all.

I also wonder this. I know this is a common theme on this board, but I haven’t posted anything under my own name since 2015, when I left Facebook during the run up to the 2016 election.

I am careful with my words when I post. I try to avoid sarcasm, try to mean what I say and say what I mean. But I am not confident that a poorly worded question or statement won’t resurface in a few years and make me look like an asshole.

So I choose not to post under my real name, and even then I don’t dip into anything controversial. I don’t post pictures of myself on the Internet at all. I advise everyone to do the same.

> It’s terrible that this guy’s daughter made racist posts 8 years ago,

This is not terrible.

It's what intelligent, confident and good children do, they push at social normal to learn about society and to try to actually think independently, they actually learn not to be racist, not just rote learn it like so many people.

What society needs to do, is find a way for them to do this while not hurting others around them like classmates which these Tweets might have done. Quite frankly screw the adults on Twitter, they are not nice people.

Her most recent racist post was 2016, at age 18 or 19 and she held a senior position at the company. The author of this piece doesn’t seem to be super intellectually honest, in addition to his Godwin’s law-breaking.

A "senior position" at a family hummus shop? Really?

CEO of Hummus

Is Walmart a family store too?

>Beginning as a small shop in 1986, Holy Land has expanded into a sprawling business that includes an eatery, grocery store, catering business, and commercial food business, with a large restaurant and production facility in Northeast Minneapolis and a stand at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport. Its hummus, sauces, and flatbreads are carried by several area grocery stores.

A company with one restaurant in one city is suddenly Walmart?

There's a place like that in this town, it has 4 or 5 people working there and two of them are the owner's sons -- they have a restaurant, and in the back they put spices and vegetables into bags and sell them to two local markets, and also in the hallway of the restaurant, which doubles as their "grocery store". They cater, too. This is a town of ~30k.

Small businesses have a habit of aggrandizing themselves. The royal we and such.

The article says the company has a CEO so why are you doubting the "family company" has a senior position for her?

How many 2 person startups have one guy referring to himself as the CEO and the other guy is the CTO and that's the entire staff?

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