Five just for the YouTube comments

It would have been more interesting if they didn't have to replace the cashier with an actor.

I hate the whole series with this guy where they stage fake scenarios in front of a hidden camera. There are enough real dickheads to deal with without some actor put there to quiz you.

Anyway, I had a Yemeni house lady once. She was white but wore a headscarf to work, so she got to put up with plenty of bigoted horseshit.

Weepy liberal faggots.

Terrorists look like you.

"Thanks for letting us shoot our little 'news' story in your bakery local sir, here's the keys back."


I'm not sure how to rate this.

Yay for the guy whose son was in the Army and the two girls who cry and the big fat guy who wasn't like the other fat people who did nothing.

Yay a thousand times for them.

From disgusting to uplifting

Thirteen people stood up for her? Damn. Hey uh... g-go America?

Oh man, Glenn Beck was right, that hurt me a little. But less than it would have yesterday. I'll try again tomorrow.

To Catch a Proprietor

"Out of 25 people who picked a shitty time to get coffee, 5 were stupid racists, 10 were stupid non-racists, and the remaining 10 noticed the camera crew and mediocre acting. We'll assume they're not racist, though. Go USA!"

John Stamos, no!

It's to catch a predator, but for racists!

See, here's the thing - these little games aren't really scientific, and they don't really confirm anything we don't already know. About a third of people are willing to speak up and say something when they see a problem, while most people will just ignore it and go about their business.

It's weird to me because news networks have no obligations regarding human test subjects. They can shout and harangue and humiliate people all they want, because it's not their job to protect their subjects. The case files on the Milgram Obedience Study (look it up) won't be opened for YEARS in order to give everyone who was involved with it on any level enough time to be long since dead. This one? You just broadcasted that dude's face to the entire country. This is less an experiment in behavior and more a game of public shaming.

Of course, you could also argue that the end goal of social research is different from the end goal of a newsmagazine program, and you'd be exactly right. At which point I'd argue that the newsmagazine, which is less concerned with generating a deeper understanding and more concerned with generating higher ratings, shouldn't even attempt to present its activities as "scientific," which they clearly are (bringing in psychologists, etc. to "evaluate" their "findings" and so forth).

Sorry, pet peeve. OK GUYS SMELL YA LATER

Here's what I learned from this: That Muslim girl is hot.