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RevK ​:verified_r:​ @revk@toot.me.uk
2y
That is genius!

Update:

LOL, someone reported me to, err, me... The first report I have ever had!

Seems I have to clarify.

All junk calls I get, are either not legal under PECR, or actually fraudulent. I am assuming this is the nature of this call. If not, then not so funny.

I have zero sympathy for someone that works for criminals. Arguing that the only job you can get is working for criminals does not justify it. Sorry. But that is my free speech opinion.

So I won't be suspending myself.
Image showing a humorous social media post by Chris Blasko dated August 5, 2014, about a conversation with a telemarketer. The post details how he pretended to be an IT administrator and tricked the telemarketer into performing a reset
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Océane @oceane@peculiar.florist
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@revk I'm not sure you understand how much stress this person has put on a delocalized worker, who's already alienated in normal conditions, having to follow a route made by white collar workers. He may have a family to feed and he isn't the problem himself. He may have been fired, or at best he's lost an hour of paid labor while fearing losing his job, in great distress.

This is only funny for ignorant people, and there's arguably racism in that. Do better.
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Nangpa 🇳🇴 @Nangpa@oslo.town
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@oceane @revk

Maybe I can't read, but the topic here is not skin colour, nationality or race - not even close...
So, I don't see the racism issue
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Océane @oceane@peculiar.florist
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@Nangpa @revk Because this kind of call center is often abroad, and because the call operators are often PoC.
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Nangpa 🇳🇴 @Nangpa@oslo.town
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Sorry, @oceane

Fediverse is worlwide with people/users from around the globe and we can't be too "woke" all the time.

I don't mind "woke" people but this got nothing to do with this post by @revk
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Océane @oceane@peculiar.florist
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@Nangpa @revk Indeed but speaking as a white person I can tell you without a shadow of doubt that when white people think about call center scams they think about brown people. If harming a call center scammer is harming a brown person, then this post is embedded in a racist culture and in racist practices. I didn't say that revk was racist, and I have the luxury not to have to jump to conclusions. I'm just saying, I will repeat, that "there's arguably racism in that".
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