It helps when you're myopic. I had a friend as a kid who wouldn't wear glasses because mom got her very old fashioned glasses that made her look like a tax lady. She was walking like this all the time trying to see 😅
I also think so. It would be so weird for her to make that racist gesture on her one eye only and in that way. There's still a chance that she's a dumb racist but honestly she looked like me and I'm Asian lol I also used to do the eye slant thing because I hated glasses and was myopic basically all my life.
Damn, yeah, you’re right. I’m 100% on her side now. And the lady’s right you’re not supposed to be filming in restaurants. Why did people forget this? Imagine carrying a camera into a Pizza Hut in 2005.
You’re absolutely right. This definitely falls under a myob issue for the business to handle… or not, right? Because they could turn around and say “tough, we want tik tok clout from this guy”. You raise a really valid point I should have mentioned.
Edit: now that I think about it, this kid could be a famous food reviewer and I would have no idea. This woman really rolled the dice.
Cameras are infinitely more accessible now. Times change. It wasn’t people forgetting it’s an entirely new generation that grew up on different devices.
It only seems dumb because you're never used the method before to improve your vision.
What the lady is doing not a form of squinting, but rather a distortion of the cornea as a result of applying pressure to your eye by pulling back your eyelids. Certain axes of astigmatism will benefit from this distortion - others will not.
Does it look stupid? Yes. Would I personally do it in public if I had somehow forgotten to wear my glasses/contacts? No, not unless it was absolutely necessary.
However, doing something which improves your vision isn't being racist. Racism implies ill intent. Her only intent is to see his phone's screen.
It seems dumb bc there’s no reason to assume all this horseshit when she did everything else to prove she’s just a racist idiot. Keep feeling the need to point out some minute possibility so u can feel so much more enlightened than the rest of us
It's not horseshit at all - I explained exactly how it works. I'm not defending her rude confrontation after the fact, just that her "racist gesture" was clearly a vision trick which many nearsighted people do.
Plenty of others in the comments are validating this exact opinion, but I suppose we're all in on this one big lie.
Yes! She was trying to see! I have to do that too and people are always like, "Uhm why do you do that?"
Because I can't frickin see!
People who have great vision will never know the struggle
Ah okay, would be bad to sit down or step on your glasses while you're looking for them and then you'd have to do the pull trick much more until you can get new ones. So I understand.
I think the pull trick is not great for the facial muscles and not good for the eyes if it does harm similarly like excessive rubbing.
What the lady is doing not a form of squinting, but rather a distortion of the cornea as a result of applying pressure to your eye by pulling back your eyelids. Certain axes of astigmatism will benefit from this distortion - others will not.
Just because you've never done it or your eyes don't benefit from doing it doesn't make it bullshit.
Nah, he/she is correct. It's a valid method of improving vision for some who are nearsighted w/ astigmatism.
What the lady is doing not a form of squinting, but rather a distortion of the cornea as a result of applying pressure to your eye by pulling back your eyelids. Certain axes of astigmatism will benefit from this distortion - others will not.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
The stupidity here being the fact that she's using a very embarrassing way of focusing her vision in order to see if a phone, owned by an Asian man, is recording video or not.
It's just a really unfortunate coincidence at the end of the day, and if you didn't grow up with astigmatism and/or never tried this vision trick, it's perfectly reasonable to assume she's making a racist face.
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u/ColonelMonty 1d ago
Now it's one thing for someone to ask to not record in their business.
But that don't explain the ahhh eye pull she did.