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Re:Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could... by phkahler on Monday February 14, 2022 @11:20AM (#30333836)
She writes really well, but this one sentence required me to back up when I knew I was misreading it:

"This time, I was called a racist—a strange accusation given that I have two black sons—a eugenicist, and a QAnon conspiracy theorist."

The section set between - hyphens - is too long, so the before and after got separated in my mind. The result was reading the later part as: "I have two black sons—a eugenicist, and a QAnon conspiracy theorist" which struck me as comically incorrect, so I had to back up to put it together correctly.

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Re:Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could... by dpark on Monday February 14, 2022 @11:33AM (#30334011)
The problem is the injection of this at the beginning of a list. This loses the comma that should be there to separate the list items, but also it just flows weirdly. Parentheses would have been much clearer here.
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Re:Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could... by ariendj on Monday February 14, 2022 @11:26AM (#30333928)
The thought of that is hilarious, thanks for sharing this brainfart.
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Re:Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could... by dragonwriter on Monday February 14, 2022 @01:25PM (#30335897)
> The section set between - hyphens - is too long

Pedantic, but: while you use hyphens here, the part quoted is actually set between dashes.

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Re:Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could... by browningstreet on Monday February 14, 2022 @11:29AM (#30333960)
Em dashes like this work like parentheses.
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Re:Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could... by coding123 on Monday February 14, 2022 @12:04PM (#30334443)
I also thought for a second that one of her black sons was a eugenicist and the other was a QAnon. Read it again and it made more sense.
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Re:Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could... by emerged on Monday February 14, 2022 @01:19PM (#30335787)
I thought having a QAnon son was an odd way to prove you’re not racist.
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Re:Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could... by dragonwriter on Monday February 14, 2022 @01:27PM (#30335929)
Reproducing with someone of a given race is also a weird way to prove that, though.
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