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If “not just for white guys” is the kind of comment that turns you away, then you wouldn’t have been a good fit regardless

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Interpreting that to mean that the person said 'it's not for white guys' and parent thinks they meant 'not "just" for white guys'. But the damage had been done regardless of original intent behind the words.

Oh, I straight up misread their comment and didn’t catch the parentheses

Apparently, it’s normal to you to speak in slurs, in public no less. Change the description to anything else and you might get it.

Oh boy, is “white guy” a slur to you??

In an exclusionary phrase, yes. All in the intention. They might as well have hung up a "no coloreds" sign.

You seem to have a habit of slicing out a few words to neutralize them and use that to justify exclusion. I get it, you think we should be "tough" and accept casual racism, sexism, ageism when fashionable.

Nope. I never accepted that shit before—ain't gonna start now.

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