kthxbye123

Can you fill me in on the "joke" here:

"The cucks refer to the white men who date women on the coal fax registry. These “men” deserve to be shamed and humiliated. Once you go black, we don’t want you back."

This is the most powerful snitch energy I've ever seen.

He's actually not willing to go to prison - he has infinite money and lawyers, he'd never do a day. What he is willing to do is sacrifice the health and safety of his workers for a little more money. If he could get away with hiring Pinkertons to break the knees of striking workers he absolutely would.

You can spend about five minutes Googling around and learn that the events in this story happened in the early to mid 2000's, mostly at smaller regional casinos, and no, the participants did not make much money - about enough to be useful to a struggling grad student (as described in the article!).

You can find the author and one of her teammates discussing their careers on a podcast from a couple of years ago here:

http://bobdancer.com/podcast

But I appreciate your commitment to upholding the proud HackerNews tradition of supremely confident snap judgments uncontaminated by actual knowledge.