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The white-supremacist warehouse in Charlestown
By adamg on Wed, 12/20/2017 - 5:31pm
The Dig takes us inside the warehouse of a company that sells home-security devices, where the walls are festooned with white-supremacist posters and Trump stuff.
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Let them know how you feel:
Let them know how you feel: https://simplisafe.com/contact-us
Their headquarters are actually in the Financial District:
294 Washington St, Fl 9
Boston, MA 02108
This trash doesn't belong in our great city.
Isn't this the same company
Isn't this the same company that fired employees who complained about a rat & bedbug infestation in the downtown offices a few months ago. How does the Globe not write a profile about this company after these revelations?!?
Thank you, UHub for again not letting important news like this fall through the cracks.
Really...
"Thank you, UHub for again not letting important news like this fall through the cracks."
Every day AG posts important stories about killings in Dorchester and Roxbury.
Every day, one or two comments. If that.
Thanks, AG for posting the important stories.
Also, thanks for posting the stories that get you page hits from the virtue signalling that see racism in everything.
"virtue signalling"?
Couldn't be bothered to read the article, huh? Figures.
"In one instance, a white supervisor allegedly said to a majority black and Latin team, “I’m like a slavemaster and you’re my slaves.” When this incident was related to the company’s human resources department, United SimpliSafe said, it was chalked up to a misunderstanding and no discipline was administered to the offending party."
"I arrived to work early one day and saw that on my supervisor’s desk was a printout with 50-plus copies of the Pepe the frog meme holding a smoking gun that read ‘Goodnight Left Side."
"Jeromski described a workplace where people of color didn’t advance and the white managerial class maintained white hegemony in professional and social settings. Nonwhite workers wouldn’t receive recognition for their work, Jeromski said, and were frequently passed over for less experienced white workers. And nobody would talk to them."
But you, dmcboston, have a long long history here as a racist apologist, so I'm not surprised at anything you say.
Libel
"Couldn't be bothered to read the article, huh? Figures."
Since you're so clairvoyant and know where I get my information, then explain how I got the 'Pepe the frog' link from the ADL cited in the article. Scroll down, you'll see it. It's the comment with the subject line "From the article...".
So, I guess I read it.
"But you, dmcboston, have a long long history here as a racist apologist, so I'm not surprised at anything you say."
You, ibb, are libeling me, unless you can prove that statement. Which you cannot.
You're just full of baloney. But I get it. You're on the side of the virtuous.
Go for it
Truth is an absolute defense against a charge of libel.
Dude, all I need is your posts
Good luck with the libel suit.
Yes...
and that earlier Dig article also sites numerous instances of sexual and racial harassment at the downtown call center, including a manager joking that since his ancestors owned slaves he had the right to rape his subordinates. Slave humor seems to be a theme throughout the company.
https://digboston.com/blood-suckers-call-center-workers-battle-abusive-c...
SimpliSafe is supposedly on track to take their company public, so you'd think they would have incentive to meaningfully address these issues.
As for your comment about the Globe, the reporting has been done at the Dig. I think at this point it's time for state or city investigators to step up.
How long have you lived here?
I mean, really?
Hmm
Someone should send this story to their venture capital firm:
https://www.sequoiacap.com/contact/menlo-park/
Seems unwise to alienate so many potential customers by allowing this kind of behavior.
Nice reviews they have on Yelp, too.
The product, it seems, doesn't work and the customer service sucks.
It's possible the reviews are
It's possible the reviews are politically motivated.
Also possible
A product made by self-absorbed paranoids preoccupied with the relative size of their dicks just sucks.
Or...
...the reviews are politically motivated.
Or...
...racist-apologist dmcboston is clutching at yet another feeble sinking straw.
Second libel
"...racist-apologist dmcboston is clutching at yet another feeble sinking straw."
Citation, please.
Put up or shut up, lightweight.
Source
Everything you post on UHub.
I'll settle for one example.
Take your time, anon.
Just look at all the nazi march crap
Continuous stream - probably better than your orange haired hero could manage.
nope
Google is your friend. The SimpliSafe product went to market with an unfixable security flaw. The hardware had to be junked and replaced.
I think you're right.
I found a couple of reviews, like Amazon and Cnet, where they seemed to like the product. The reviews, however were a bit stale, the Cnet one was 2013.
ED: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/02/17/simplisafe-alarm-...
Just found this Forbes article. Apparently it was ADT and Vivint also. They were using unencrypted signals between the alarm stations, which could be captured by someone within range.
Best poster ever
No, not me, I mean one of the posters hanging in the warehouse
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Bernie took seniors
On a bus trip to Canada to buy meds. I would call that a pretty fine middle finger to the establishment myself. When did rejecting the status quo become the exclusive province of the alt-right?
Did Bernie mean it to go along
with his giving the middle finger to America?
What's that supposed to mean?
Translate into English, please.
Maybe you missed the disgusting
spectacle on the South Lawn yesterday? The scum in the GOP kissing that traitor's ass for signing their Christmas gift to the rich, one of whom is Bernie?
Bernie isn't rich
The spoiled little Clinton Campaign girls loved to say that made him unqualified.
Do your homework. .
Bernie absolutely is rich. If
Bernie absolutely is rich. If being a millionaire and owning 3 homes isn’t rich than I don’t know what is...
Bernie earned a million
Bernie earned a million dollars one year.
But he refused to do any paid speeches for Wall Street firms and other powerful interests. Other big-name politicians make almost a million dollars for a SINGLE appearance.
You think this is funny
Well, we already know that you think that screaming things out the window at Asians is funny, too. You don't have to double down on the stupidity.
Four pictures
All I see are two "socialism sucks" stickers (which Venezuela and Cuba have proven that it does), and a hardo NRA poster which, while juvenile, is in no way an attack on any person.
These people sound like complete dolts, but the photos don't serve their breathless headline.
The Photos Don't Serve The Headline?
Good thing there is a whole article of words to read that do.
Remember how they were widely distributing Pepe propaganda? Which BTW, is hung up on posters you can clearly see in the article.
Or when minority employees were called slaves while their boss called himself a slavemaster?
You should be a publicist when the amount of spin and non-denial denials you are trying to slip through.
Or when minority employees
What you said is different that this:
Wasn't a direct quote.
I was summarizing what the article said.
Black people and Latinos are minorities.
The article states their boss said he's their slavemaster and that they are slaves.
Not sure what you are trying to call me on...
Reading is fundamental
Read the article, Will. If you want to be an apologist for racism after that, go ahead, give it a try.
I did read it
And I said in another comment "these people sound like dolts."
The article has photos of the
The article has photos of the festooned walls, but I'm not seeing the white supremacist posters. Please point them out.
You must be so lucky
To have been so isolated from everything to not realize what the frog posters mean..
That's when the MSM lost me
right about fourteen months ago when suddenly every single leftist news outlet, from NYT, to Atlantic, to NPR, and all in between started frothing at the mouth about some frog I never heard of being a symbol of racism.
I remember sitting in the car, hearing that on the way to work, and all I could say to myself was, W.T.F.
Also, ribbit ribbit.
Oh well, because you never heard of it
that must mean it's not for real. Because you, Roman, recognize every racist dog whistle out there.
You and capecoddah and dmcboston need to get a room, seriously. Somewhere other than Boston, preferably.
Just the three of us?
This guy who gets punched in the face helped organize
This guy who gets punched in the face helped organize the Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville. They wanted street violence. They wanted racial violence. One of the neo-Nazis who attended killed a women in an act of terror.
This just proves
you are an OLD racist. Get with the TIMES man! You're brand of hate and intolerance is old news. There are all kinds of memes and propaganda you need to catch up on.
Oh, so you know...
"To have been so isolated from everything to not realize what the frog posters mean.."
Here's the frog in question:
How many times does your stupid lie about Pepe
have to be roundly debunked before you stop repeating it?
We get it: you're a sympathizer, and you're hoping to keep the true meaning of Pepe a secret. Sorry, the cat's out of the bag on that one.
Maybe you could go off and create another crude cartoon "secret" symbol of white supremacism. Nothing earns respect among our new baby Nazis like the skill of creating memes. (That's actually true.)
Bad frog.
As it turns out, if you read the article, like ibb insists, you'd know that my "stupid lie about Pepe" is supported by one of the links in the article.
Go ahead, click on it. Or just scroll down a bit.
It is true it was co-opted as a meme, but apparently, according to perruptor, the originator is suing them. I hope the guy wins. *
I'm not a sympathizer and I've never worked in anything less than a professional environment.
You know nothing, slim.
* ED: I just read the provided links from Perruptor. Apparently the originator successfully stopped a book that featured the frog. So now they're going after just about everybody for copyright infringement. I understand, but maybe Pepe's just way too distributed.
Who do you think you're fooling?
Pepe might have had an innocent explanation once, but that ship has long since sailed. It's now widely used as a not-so-covert symbol of white supremacism.
You might gull some simpletons with that specious explanation, but this is uHub: we know racists when we see 'em.
Shaddap with your bullshit apologies for neo-Nazi symbols. The fights you pick tell us everything we need to know about your sympathies.
From the article...
https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/pepe-the-frog
"The Pepe the Frog character did not originally have racist or anti-Semitic connotations."
"The majority of uses of Pepe the Frog have been, and continue to be, non-bigot"
See? It was hijacked. It was a frog. It is still a fucking frog.
Is the swastika
Is the swastika still a symbol of prosperity and spirituality? Try displaying it on your car or at your workplace and let us know how your efforts to enlighten observers work out.
Originator suing for infringement
The originator of Pepe the Frog is suing several persons and sites that have used his creation as a racist tool. He's donating the proceeds to the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Watch them claim their 1st Amendment rights are being trampled. Stupid people.
"Nazis" tag? that escalated
"Nazis" tag? that escalated schnell.
Not really
If you don't understand the symbols of the "alt-reich", then it is your loss, not ours.
Two worst things you could be called
when I lived on Decatur Street was nigger and liberal.
Liberals was worse. Meanwhile , this attitude is prevalent among most of the old Townies still, so why is the Dig looking for trouble where there isn't any?
Oh, wait. I forgot who the editor was.
What's your point?
You seem to be an apologist for a toxic racist workplace in the present because your old homies were a bunch of room-temperature-IQ bigots. Is that what you're really trying to say?
Tell you what..
You want to run down there and call each and every one of those old Townies out for being the racists they obviously are to their faces?
See where it gets you.
Then you can try and explain to me where I issued a statement of apology.
Again, louder for the people in the back...
What's your point?
No, son, I don't. Did I say that? Please be coherent and explain exactly where you're going with this, and then google the term "apologist" because you clearly don't know what it means. What do your racist neighbors of eons past have to do with this?
Maybe...
you might take a second and think about that last question. That's who we're talking about here.
And of course you don't.
Dude, make sense
OK, so YOU'RE talking about your racist townie neighbors from back in the day. Again, third time now: what does that have to do with anything? Seriously.
And of course I don't what? There's no antecedent. Make sense.
Now..
you're just boring.
Teacher! Teacher!
Brian Riccio said a bad word! Make him stand in the corner at recess!
Adam, can you disperse this
Adam, can you disperse this somewhere else? I had actually looked at this company for some security products in the past but chose not to use them. I'd never use them after reading this article.
Perhaps cnet should be made aware of this article and reminded of their recommendation. What about reddit?
I tweeted it out
But it's a Dig/BINJ article, and they're pretty good about publicizing their own work.
What if
This company had "I'm with her" posters and pictures of Trump in a diaper? Would you use them then?
Yes, because endorsing / mocking politicians is the same
thing as supporting a neo-Nazi movement.
If they continue to make unfixable junk
No.
Pod Save America sponsor?
Pretty sure this company is a sponsor of the Crooked Media podcasts done by President Obama's former speechwriters (Pod Save America et al) which are, to quote the NY Times, "The Voices in Blue America's Head"
I don't understand at all how scum like this would a) advertise on such a left-leaning platform, and b) that the guys over there at Crooked media would allow them to. How bizarre.
Thanks for sharing, Adam.
Anyone who wants to see
the largest display of PARADOXES on the planet should visit the parking lot here in summer to see said supervisors in a running Honda, adorned with Trump and MAGA stickers, with the windows down and AC blaring, smoking weed on lunch break.
I wish I was joking, but you can't make this stuff up.
What is the supposed paradox?
Is there some political qualification required to smoke weed?
Cognitive dissonance
I think it's just more cognitive dissonance, which is so pervasive on the far Right that it's almost not worth remarking on; it can be assumed.
Was wondering where Scratchie went
Mele kalikimaka.
More fake newts. There is no Alt right. There are only
God fearing caucausian christians who protect this nation from the Mexican Muslim invasion funded by Hillary and George Soros. Pepe the frog is a symbol of love among men. These men are close, joined from behind. Please don't judge them on this closeness.