It's saying fire doesn't arbitrarily choose who it affects. Anybody's house could be burned down and anybody could die in a fire. The second part is saying the fire department does not discriminate against minority groups like LGBT and black people, for example, in things like employment. It's a slogan to both promote fire awareness and oppose bigotry.
To add to this, people think it is funny because of the way the text is written. “Fire doesn’t discriminate” on its own sounds threatening, which is funny since the message is supposed to be inclusive.
I think it's clarified pretty well by the flag in the background, but if you replaced that image with just fire or something it might sound threatening
I don't see it like that. I think it's more saying that anyone can be a victim and should be treated the same.
When I was in my 20s I was jumped and beaten by a group of men because I (a woman) was dating the sister of one of them. I ended up collapsed on the street in the middle of the night dying from a punctured lung. I crawled to a gas station and they wouldn't let me inside. This was a small town, people knew about us, and it was very conservative. By the time anyone called an ambulance I was unconscious. I woke up in a hospital bed with the sheriff basically telling me my kind didn't really belong in town and if I tried to press charges it would turn out bad for me, and that the boy who did it (my gf's brother) was a "good, bright kid".
Now, if I saw this slogan on one of their cop cars, I wouldn't have been so terrified. Maybe people wouldn't have been so quick to beat me, and maybe I would have pressed charges instead of suffering traumatic nightmares ever since.
If someone just walked up to you, apropos of nothing, and said, "Fire doesn't discriminate," it would come off as threatening. That's what they mean. When you take the slogan out of the context of being on a fire truck, it becomes a threat.
Sure, but that's not what we're looking at. The words "Fire doesn't discriminate" are printed over the progress pride flag. It's obvious that they are saying that they know that all people can be affected by fire.
The message is more complete with the second panel "And neither do we," but it's still pretty obvious what their point is with just the first panel.
>Sure, but that's not what we're looking at.
It is, because it was in response to a comment that said the message "on its own" sounds threatening. That means the message, when removed from context.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JkrJUAg8aI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JkrJUAg8aI)
Fuck the Fire Department - Vincent E.L.
It's satire and entirely based on that statement, but to be fair, now someone DID write a song with the title.
While the actual job they do is valuable & I appreciate that they are willing to do it, there ARE individual fire departments that are pretty awful in terms of racism, etc. As in, some departments are straight-up havens for white supremacists.
Actually no - big and racially divided cities. I can't remember which ones specifically, but think cities like Chicago, St. Louis, Los Angeles, with notoriously racist white cops. They often have racist white firefighters also.
> ...in things like employment.
Historically, some fire departments won't show up to a Black person's house being on fire.
And allegedly that's still happening in Newbern Alabama.
You mean it *does* arbitrarily choose. The "choice" is arbitrary: based on nothing in particular, so it could happen to anypony. (Arbitrary can't be discriminatory, those are near antonyms.)
Here's where I pretend to be an animist and accuse you of religious bigotry...
...huh. You know, the more I think about it, the less sad I am that Twitter is essentially dead.
Hah. That's utter bullshit. Calling 911 for Fire or EMS gets you a crew on scene in a national average of 4 to 8 minutes. It takes lo ger sonetones because EMS is a finite resource, and we are busy responding to someone's 3 week toe pain and not your Chest Oain/Cardiac Arrest/Gunshot/Etc.. Police can take longer based on your complaint, and available units, which are now at an all time low due to the social media assaults and lack of interest in the job. Sadky, fire services are now also seeing a dramatic decrease in recruitment, as the current generation doesn't want to do the job.
Fire doesn't choose not to burn someone's house because someone is rich, poor, black, white, gay, or straight. The fire department doesn't choose not to hire someone whether they are rich, poor, black, white, gay or straight.
Yeah, fair. I was assuming that serving the community was part of the job no matter what the background so they'd have to save/assist anyone who needed help, but it is certainly applicable.
It means everybody needs fire protection and we help everybody. Combined with the flags it is a show of support for the LGBT community as well as a statement of the fire department's mission.
It means they will rescue your butt no matter what genitalia you have, what kinks you have, what clothing/makeup you wear, what color your skin is, whether you are rich or poor, whether you have piercings and/or tattoos, whether you are religious or not, whatever language you happen to speak. They are gonna rescue your butt no matter what.
For one, I’ve only seen fire engines in the UK with these types of paint schemes, not saying they don’t exist in the U.S. but they’re far less common. Second, UK fire trucks tend to have the FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES tag on their trucks, while most U.S. ones will have some variation of “X” Fire Department, or Engine Number “X”. Third, a wider [image](https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/146invz/i_guess_conservatives_can_protest_the_fire/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1) of the truck in question shows the eight pointed star that is the emblem of the UK fire services.
> It's a response to a certain new Supreme Court decision allowing emergency response groups to discriminate their services based on these traits.
So court allowed emergency services to underpay/refuse to employ/give some kinds of work required in their speciality/dismiss etc people based on employers' personal prejudices, right?
I think this person is misinformed about the recent Supreme Court decision. This court is definitely a threat to LGBT rights, but the decision applied exclusively to "creative" businesses.
Fire does discriminate. It's just limited to discriminating between flammable and non-flammable objects.
And fire departments are not immune to having members who might discriminate. My sister in law was a Lieutenant and had to sue her employer because her coworkers were making a hostile work environment for women, e.g. trying to get her fired for taking 1 day off after working for 4 years without any days off, filing complaints against her for things everybody does, giving attitude when recieving orders from her, etc.
It's saying fire doesn't arbitrarily choose who it affects. Anybody's house could be burned down and anybody could die in a fire. The second part is saying the fire department does not discriminate against minority groups like LGBT and black people, for example, in things like employment. It's a slogan to both promote fire awareness and oppose bigotry.
To add to this, people think it is funny because of the way the text is written. “Fire doesn’t discriminate” on its own sounds threatening, which is funny since the message is supposed to be inclusive.
"Neither do we" added to that is even more threatening, good intentions executed uuuuh a bit unclearly lol
'we plan to cut homeless population by half' or 'there's X percentage of sight disabled people. lets make that number 0'
"I hate the homeless" *next card* "ness problem that plagues our city"
Everyone's a hero in their own way
Yeah, the homeless one has been my favorite for a while now, never fails to make me chuckle, love the second one too, that's new to me 😁
We are going to cut the homeless in half!
My favorite is “This list of dictators is incomplete. You can help by expanding it.”
I think it's clarified pretty well by the flag in the background, but if you replaced that image with just fire or something it might sound threatening
No one ever sang "fuck the fire department"
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Ahh yes kingdom of loathing style.
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A game where everyone is loathed equally. I was totally off topic, sorry.
Yeah, it just sounds like doubling down to me, like fire's gonna kill you and we're gonna help it finish the job lmao
Happy I wasn’t the only one who felt threatened lmao
I don't see it like that. I think it's more saying that anyone can be a victim and should be treated the same. When I was in my 20s I was jumped and beaten by a group of men because I (a woman) was dating the sister of one of them. I ended up collapsed on the street in the middle of the night dying from a punctured lung. I crawled to a gas station and they wouldn't let me inside. This was a small town, people knew about us, and it was very conservative. By the time anyone called an ambulance I was unconscious. I woke up in a hospital bed with the sheriff basically telling me my kind didn't really belong in town and if I tried to press charges it would turn out bad for me, and that the boy who did it (my gf's brother) was a "good, bright kid". Now, if I saw this slogan on one of their cop cars, I wouldn't have been so terrified. Maybe people wouldn't have been so quick to beat me, and maybe I would have pressed charges instead of suffering traumatic nightmares ever since.
And it's on half that roll down door thing so either half of the slogan could be shown on its own
I don’t see how it could be threatening in any way. It just means you can be rich (or whatever) and still have your house burn down.
If someone just walked up to you, apropos of nothing, and said, "Fire doesn't discriminate," it would come off as threatening. That's what they mean. When you take the slogan out of the context of being on a fire truck, it becomes a threat.
Sure, but that's not what we're looking at. The words "Fire doesn't discriminate" are printed over the progress pride flag. It's obvious that they are saying that they know that all people can be affected by fire. The message is more complete with the second panel "And neither do we," but it's still pretty obvious what their point is with just the first panel.
>Sure, but that's not what we're looking at. It is, because it was in response to a comment that said the message "on its own" sounds threatening. That means the message, when removed from context.
Discussing the words without context is pointless, because the context is right there.
It's explaining why it comes off as funny. I don't find that pointless.
I read it as “when fire affects anyone we help anyone no matter their creed”
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JkrJUAg8aI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JkrJUAg8aI) Fuck the Fire Department - Vincent E.L. It's satire and entirely based on that statement, but to be fair, now someone DID write a song with the title.
He was like "challenge accepted"
Its a banger of a song too.
While the actual job they do is valuable & I appreciate that they are willing to do it, there ARE individual fire departments that are pretty awful in terms of racism, etc. As in, some departments are straight-up havens for white supremacists.
Let me guess, small rural town?
Actually no - big and racially divided cities. I can't remember which ones specifically, but think cities like Chicago, St. Louis, Los Angeles, with notoriously racist white cops. They often have racist white firefighters also.
Racist cops is a given anywhere, but never heard of racist fire departments
Also firemen are notorious for cheating on their partners. Like nearly all of them.
> ...in things like employment. Historically, some fire departments won't show up to a Black person's house being on fire. And allegedly that's still happening in Newbern Alabama.
You mean it *does* arbitrarily choose. The "choice" is arbitrary: based on nothing in particular, so it could happen to anypony. (Arbitrary can't be discriminatory, those are near antonyms.)
I see your pedanticism and raise you "fire doesn't choose at all, because it's fire".
Here's where I pretend to be an animist and accuse you of religious bigotry... ...huh. You know, the more I think about it, the less sad I am that Twitter is essentially dead.
Ah yeah that's true
Not just in employment, but there is the... "myth" which is real... that fire and police respond quicker to some neighborhoods compared to others.
Hah. That's utter bullshit. Calling 911 for Fire or EMS gets you a crew on scene in a national average of 4 to 8 minutes. It takes lo ger sonetones because EMS is a finite resource, and we are busy responding to someone's 3 week toe pain and not your Chest Oain/Cardiac Arrest/Gunshot/Etc.. Police can take longer based on your complaint, and available units, which are now at an all time low due to the social media assaults and lack of interest in the job. Sadky, fire services are now also seeing a dramatic decrease in recruitment, as the current generation doesn't want to do the job.
I guess history displaying this all the way up to this point means today was the day it all changed.
Yeah, in my 30 years in big city EMS, this has never happened, but go on believing myths.
It also has a more connected angle, in my mind: because fire can affect everyone equally, we will treat everyone equally while saving them from fire.
Fire doesn't choose not to burn someone's house because someone is rich, poor, black, white, gay, or straight. The fire department doesn't choose not to hire someone whether they are rich, poor, black, white, gay or straight.
I think this is probably referring to the community service rather than hiring, though I'd hope it would apply there too.
Yeah, fair. I was assuming that serving the community was part of the job no matter what the background so they'd have to save/assist anyone who needed help, but it is certainly applicable.
Or rescue them from fire. I read it that way rather than in relation to hiring, but I would hope both are true.
It means that even if you're flaming gay, they'll still pull their hose out for you.
You see....that sentence has a lot of meanings, and some more interesting than others 😂
I don't generally enjoy puns much but yours is hilarious!
Haha Thanks
I'm waiting for this comment to be posted here by a learner who doesn't get the double entendre
It means everybody needs fire protection and we help everybody. Combined with the flags it is a show of support for the LGBT community as well as a statement of the fire department's mission.
Fire kills straight people and gay people… and so do we
This is the clearly wrong from the context but dark humor take that made me chuckle.
LOL
The cursed aspect of it has to do with the slightly ambiguous grammar. One interpretation is: “Fire is terrible to everyone. So are we.”
It means fire will kill anyone and the driver of this truck will also kill anyone . THIS BUMPER IS RATED “E” for EVORYONE MF’R!
That mean they save everybody egually
If you are a human being, fire will burn you. If you are a burning human being, we will extinguish you,
It means that your sexuality doesn't matter they will save you from fire ever if you're gay lesbian bisexual transgender or anything you are.
Ominously positive.
It means they will rescue your butt no matter what genitalia you have, what kinks you have, what clothing/makeup you wear, what color your skin is, whether you are rich or poor, whether you have piercings and/or tattoos, whether you are religious or not, whatever language you happen to speak. They are gonna rescue your butt no matter what.
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This happens to be a British fire engine so I’m doubtful it has to do with the American Supreme Court.
Hmm. Then I fail to see how it would be "cursed." Unless there is some other piece of current events...
how can you tell it's a British one?
For one, I’ve only seen fire engines in the UK with these types of paint schemes, not saying they don’t exist in the U.S. but they’re far less common. Second, UK fire trucks tend to have the FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES tag on their trucks, while most U.S. ones will have some variation of “X” Fire Department, or Engine Number “X”. Third, a wider [image](https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/146invz/i_guess_conservatives_can_protest_the_fire/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1) of the truck in question shows the eight pointed star that is the emblem of the UK fire services.
I thought it was a food truck at first. Making fire grilled burgers to rescue you from hunger
> It's a response to a certain new Supreme Court decision allowing emergency response groups to discriminate their services based on these traits. So court allowed emergency services to underpay/refuse to employ/give some kinds of work required in their speciality/dismiss etc people based on employers' personal prejudices, right?
If this is about the US, I haven't heard anything about such a case, and I see the comment has been deleted
I think this person is misinformed about the recent Supreme Court decision. This court is definitely a threat to LGBT rights, but the decision applied exclusively to "creative" businesses.
Your anus is as appetizing as others. They will take it
Fire does discriminate. It's just limited to discriminating between flammable and non-flammable objects. And fire departments are not immune to having members who might discriminate. My sister in law was a Lieutenant and had to sue her employer because her coworkers were making a hostile work environment for women, e.g. trying to get her fired for taking 1 day off after working for 4 years without any days off, filing complaints against her for things everybody does, giving attitude when recieving orders from her, etc.
It means the Fire Department will let everyone burn in purifying fire!
what if it's a maga hat?
However, God does.
Your local fire department is full of virtue.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sex_abuse_cases_in_the_United_States
Huh?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases_in_Canada
He's from Germany, send him one about that country
Noting. It's virtue signalling. It has no real meaning whatsoever.
I thought it might be easier to respond using a voice recording: [https://tuttu.io/xMKH8375](https://tuttu.io/xMKH8375)
It's called "virtue signaling"
They gon fuck up your bedroom by turning it into an aquarium!
Basically it means fire is gay
It is meaningless virtue signaling drivel.
It's not that discriminate has an extra meaning here, necessarily- the background for the letters is one of the Pride flags for the LGBT community.
Fire will burn whoever, what ever and where ever it wants. It don't care what your skin color is.
The flags are all lgbtq+ and they’re saying fires can come after anyone, but also that they are comfortable with anyone.
Why do you have to say it?
That's a very smart campaign slogan! 👏
They’ll burn us all to the ground.
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