"What do you do for a living?"
"I'm unemployed"
"What do you want to be doing?"
If you take an interest in people, it's not hard to continue a conversation.
Instead the author decided
> Hurr I heard a black person say they didn't have a job, better stop talking to him then write an article about not being too inquisitive lest you uncover people fitting into stereotypes!!
Which is racist because it implies the stereotype is true and that you should change your behavior so that you do not upset people over it. Instead of treating the person like a person and continuing the conversation.