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Yelp's Racist Restaurant Alerts
from #221 - Epstein's Favorite Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show · #221
11 min
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Tim reacts to Yelp's new feature letting users flag businesses as racist, questioning how it could be abused, tying in police brutality news, and imagining an absurd genocide-themed restaurant to troll the policy.
- Yelp has stepped in to allow people to identify restaurants as racist, which is America's solution to everything: involving food and dining.
- Yelp will add a racist behavior alert to business pages based on evidence of racist actions, relying on independent news reports.
- Tim describes ordering overcooked steaks at a restaurant in Utah and questions what stops him from falsely claiming the waitress whispered Hitler's name.
- Nobody cares if a restaurant has a racist alert if the food is actually good.
- The restaurants that are actually racist are poor establishments where minorities hate each other, like Korean bodegas that hate Black people.
- Tim refuses to write negative reviews on Airbnb or Yelp because he doesn't want to be a rat and destroy someone's ability to earn money.
- Yelp is solving the problem of racism by letting people identify if a waitress was racist, ignoring that major corporations might sue for this.
- This creeping into every area is just boredom—people don't know what to do, and Yelp is capitalizing on anti-racism sentiment by letting people rat out restaurants.
- Tim imagines opening the most offensive restaurant ever: an oppression-themed establishment with gas chamber tables, SS guard servers, and a Gaza Strip garden serving leftover floor food.
- If the food and pricing were good, people would go to this hypothetical Nazi-themed restaurant, and Tim would eat there alongside others despite its offensive nature.