In what world could these Jimmy John’s employees have possibly thought this was going to be a good idea???
Sadly, this is Trump’s America.
Four now-former employees of the sub shop are out of a job after a viral video reached the public eye showing them fashioning a noose out of dough and pretending to hang one of their own. The employees had been working at the company’s shop in Woodstock, Georgia on the Fourth of July when this all went down.
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As you can see (below), at least four young, white male employees are involved in fashioning the noose out of dough, wrapping it around the neck of one of the workers, and then taking multiple cell phone videos of the whole event, laughing the whole way through:
WTF?!
In this day and age, especially with all that’s going on in the world right now, how could these guys have possibly thought it was a good idea to pull off a stunt like this?! It’s completely tone-deaf at best, and at worst, it’s one of the more offensive and repugnant things you could do.
You know what. It’s both. No excuses.
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And it’s doubly sick to see how much glee these four (all white) workers took in performing what they probably merely thought was a “joke” or something similarly cavalier. That’s the very definition of white privilege, isn’t it? These guys can joke about nooses made out of dough, knowing the reality of public lynchings has never affected their ancestors (or fellow citizens in 2020) and isn’t a reality in their current situations. Disgusting. Let’s hope they somehow learn a lesson in all this, and can one day understand and appreciate the line they’ve crossed here.
Thankfully, common sense has prevailed in this situation, and all four employees involved have now been fired by the sub company. TMZ is reporting that even the manager of that particular location was fired, too — so it seems like Jimmy John’s is (rightfully) trying to clear house of some really, really bad apples within their ranks.
Hours ago, Jimmy John’s released an official statement on their corporate Twitter account, too, disavowing the act and confirming the fact that those involved were terminated:
— Jimmy John’s (@jimmyjohns) July 6, 2020
Well said.
Still, we can’t even believe this happened in the first place. It’s 2020, Black Lives Matter protest have literally captivated the country’s (and world’s) hearts and minds, and s**t like this is still going on. Unacceptable!
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[Image via Jimmy John’s]
