Replacing smoke detector batteries is White Supremacy

[Wat_Tyler]

I had to go to Home Depot this AM to pick up a few things. When I got to check out I whipped out my "White Supremacy" card and demanded a 50% discount...................................they called security.

Did you forget to renew it???

 

[HisArpy]

White supremacy. It's a terrible thing, this white supremacy and the underlying cultural expectations that go with it. Such as....changing batteries....

Memes about smoke detectors chirping simply speak to the idea that some people don't change the batteries in their home smoke detectors, leading to the machine emitting a repeated beeping signal to indicate that it needs a replacement. In the early 2020s, this unwillingness to change one's smoke detector batteries became a stereotype associated with Black people. HOwever, it seems there is, as with stereotypes in general, a solid basis of reality underlying this meme.

A 2021 report from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) revealed alarming statistics about home fires in the United States from 2016 to 2018. Annually, approximately 360,000 home fires result in around 2,400 deaths and nearly 10,400 injuries. Shockingly, research indicates that African Americans experience the highest rates of fire-related fatalities and injuries compared to other racial groups, with death rates nearly double the national average and injury rates more than twice as high. Despite representing 13% of the population, African Americans account for an estimated 24% of home fire deaths and 27% of injuries, according to the report.

While disparate discussions in Black communities about smoke alarm beeps have continued until 2020, the joke arguably gained viral traction due to a series of lighthearted TikTok videos posted by TikToker @damedamian. A brief skit posted by @damedamian showed the difference between "White people chillen in their house," and "Black people chillen in their house," with the only notable difference being the distant sound of a smoke alarm chirping in the latter scene. The video went immensely viral, gathering millions of views in the following months. The skit was also well-received by some Black users on the platform, such as TikToker @shaelovve, who stitched the video to join the joke and gathered over 20 million views herself.

While lighthearted jokes about smoke detector beeps continued to gain popularity after the aforementioned viral meme, the joke was also coopted by less sympathetic groups. A 4chan thread posted to the site's /pol/ board titled, "NEW DOGWHISTLE DROPPED" gathered several replies after it called Black Americans "Beeping Americans" in reference to the smoke alarm sound.

Now, does this meme have a basis in reality, which leads to this unfortunately high percentage of deaths, and does this have a basis in reality with the ignoring for smke detector beeps? Generallt, you find that where stereotypes exist, there's an underlying reality that supports that stereotype. Is this the case here?

The saddest part in that the Black segment of society is over-represented in many of the worst things in society.

Is this the result of "white supremacy" or simply that some politicians prefer Blacks to be dependent upon the government largess and therefore do everything they can to prevent inner city minorities from escaping the financial prison they find themselves in?

Votes are what these politicians are chasing. And they do it very well and will continue to succeed at that as long as the Black population doesn't realize they're still being enslaved. The only difference is that this time they have the illusion that they have a choice between slavery and, much like a rose by any other name is still a rose, slavery with the nom du jour.

 

[HisArpy]

Did you forget to renew it???

Apparently he didn't have the required orange sticker on the back.

 

[Rebel5soul]

The saddest part in that the Black segment of society is over-represented in many of the worst things in society.

Is this the result of "white supremacy" or simply that some politicians prefer Blacks to be dependent upon the government largess and therefore do everything they can to prevent inner city minorities from escaping the financial prison they find themselves in?

Votes are what these politicians are chasing. And they do it very well and will continue to succeed at that as long as the Black population doesn't realize they're still being enslaved. The only difference is that this time they have the illusion that they have a choice between slavery and, much like a rose by any other name is still a rose, slavery with the nom du jour.

Not just politicians. Masters need slaves to look after, it's a very sick symbiotic relationship. And DEI is just the old Equal Opportunity Quota System repackaged and given steroids.

 

[HisArpy]

Not just politicians. Masters need slaves to look after, it's a very sick symbiotic relationship. And DEI is just the old Equal Opportunity Quota System repackaged and given steroids.

It's all Jim Crow and the majority of Blacks are kept ignorant because their "leaders" figured out how to feed from the same slavery trough as those who first enslaved them.

I would defund HUD evict everyone from HUD sponsored housing and then condemn and bulldoze every HUD complex and HUD subsidized "apartment/Hotel" to bare dirt without ANY services, and not rebuild for at least a generation.

Force them to go out into the wilderness and learn how to survive without being kept as a slave to the government/politicians.

Fuck, how dam dum do you have to be to not understand that you're not free as long as you're dependent on the government to take care of you?

 

[great lover]

I haven't lived in an apartment in 28 years. Is this the landlord's job or the tenant's?

Landlord

 

[eric_erosfan]

Landlord

Well there's the answer then. More Black's are renters. They are used to landlords not replacing the batteries. More Blacks die in fires with non-working smoke detectors because they are more likely to rent from shitty landlords. Maybe not racism but classism. Poorer people suffer from beeping smoke detectors.

 

[ishtat]

This is why Trumps notion of doing away with Daylight saving is so evil. Everybody knows that when you change the clocks it's time to change the batteries in the smoke detector. And don't think you can get away with putting in a cheap Chinese battery - 47 will be grumpy.

 

[UltraChad]

Well there's the answer then. More Black's are renters. They are used to landlords not replacing the batteries. More Blacks die in fires with non-working smoke detectors because they are more likely to rent from shitty landlords. Maybe not racism but classism. Poorer people suffer from beeping smoke detectors.

Oh it's always other peoples responsibility!!!

Dem poor blacks can't do ANYTHING for themselves!!!!

This is right up there with Voter ID is racist because black people can't figure out where the DMV is and can't afford the 6 dollar ID's.

You (D)umb fucks are literally the most racist shit stains in the USA and you don't even realize it.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

It's always the Asian cucks white knighting for the white man.
You'll never be white, we don't want you or need you to be offended for us. You will never be white no matter how much you wish you were.
Go back to gookistan or wherever you came from.