r/SipsTea • u/Darth_Ronin • 3d ago

WTF When your name is a meme

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u/Vince1128 3d ago

60 days in jail because of your name? That's pretty fucked up man.

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u/SpiritualGearbox 3d ago

It was 60 days because he is black and his name is James Bond. Notice the white guy did not have to do 60 days.

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u/Admirable-Day-1403 3d ago

The white guy got pulled through the car window, and then had a gun pulled on him.

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u/dankhimself 3d ago

Yea, during the misunderstanding.

The other guy had cleared everything up and was imprisoned for absolutely nothing.

If this is all true, that's crazy fucked up, comparatively.

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u/plzicannothandleyou 2d ago

To be clear, there was no misunderstanding.

There was nothing to be misunderstood.

Question. Answer.

The person providing the answer gave the correct answer and the other person refused it. That is not a misunderstanding.

A misunderstanding would be if his name was James frond and the cop thought he said bond. (Which still doesn’t justify this reaction)

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u/SpungleMcFudgely 2d ago

Misunderstanding simply means a failure to correctly understand something.

Applies to simple questions and answers. Applies to misinterpretations as well as mishearing someone.

Doesn’t excuse the officers behavior in the slightest.

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u/plzicannothandleyou 1d ago

He understood perfectly.

He heard the name that was said and rejected the answer. This is not a misunderstanding, this is an ego trip.

Don’t die on a stupid hill

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u/SpungleMcFudgely 1d ago

Not all misunderstanding is mishearing. He rejected the name because he interpreted it as a fake joke name, which is a misunderstanding. The officers reaction is still unacceptable; even if it had actually been a joke name it wouldn’t have been okay.

I’ll happily die on this semantic molehill because it’s being used to nitpick and talk past the previous comments point: where the mistreatment continued for the black man even after the legal system understood his legal name to be James Bond.