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Re:Tuv sees black for Tesla: Cybertruck would not get approv... by pasabagi on Saturday December 14, 2019 @07:04AM (#21789096)
>in english, seeing black is a finance colloquialism at best. at worst, its a pejorative for racist tendencies. im guessing its a different sentiment in Germany entirely.

Are you a native speaker? I've never heard 'seeing black' said in a racial sense. It is however colloquially used (in the UK at least).

I think it's also an idiom in German (my wife, a German, uses it often). Also not in a racist sense - also simply meaning, to 'see nothing good about' something.

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Re:Tuv sees black for Tesla: Cybertruck would not get approv... by ksaj on Saturday December 14, 2019 @12:59PM (#21790919)
Indeed. I thought "seeing black" simply means "profiting," especially after a period of being "in the red."

Eg: a company might "hope to see black by then end of Q3."

So the headline baffled me.

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