To want to challenge this Facebook viral?

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Someone has shared a FB viral photo of a guy on the tube asleep.on another guys shoulder. The story goes that the man asleep happens to be black and the man whose shoulder he is asleep on is Jewish. The photographer asked after a few minutes "Do you want me to wake him?" to which the Jewish man said "no no let him sleep he must have had a hard day, we have all been there". General round up is that isnt the Jewish man marvellous and noble for permitting the black man to sleep on his shoulder.

It has fucked me off.

Race, religion....why? A man on the tube says "ah weve all been there, let him sleep" as another man sleeps on his shoulder. Thats an act of kindness and understanding.

This viral reads as though (1) the photographer thought the man should be woken because he was black (2) the Jewish man was remarkable because he allowed a black man to sleep on his shoulder

Am I just reading too far into it?

And Ive just read some of the comments

"ahhh isnt he a great man"

That because he allowed a black man to sleep on his shoulder.

Am cross

why bring it on to MN, it will not end well...

I think you need to link to it. Why don't you think the commenter just thinks it's a nice thing for him to do?

Is this meant to be a real situation? If so, how did they know the man was Jewish?

I've not seen this, I think you could be reading too much into it from your description

Erm because Im.not sure if I am being unreasonable to feel so strongly against it.

I didnt bring the viral to FB. I explained what it was in order to get some clarification as to whether I was correct to interpret it the way I have.

Yeah well without seeing it we can't really interpret it ourselves though can we?

Because the awake man is wearing a Kippah

I think you could be reading too much into it, the 'isn't he a great man' comment could be because he didn't want to disturb the clearly exhausted man from sleeping until he had to.

Im not sure....if someone has a conversation with someone and comes on here to see if the were BU or not, MNers dont say "well I cant judge as I wasnt part ofthe conversation".

I dont know how to link from FB but I will see if its on Pinterest.

YABU and definitely reading too much into it.

OK. Thank you.

Why do you care so much that the other man was black?

I've seen it,I didn't notice the black/jewish part but I did think it was mawkish bollocks. I think this for almost every single viral photo especially those which say '1 like = 1 respect' etc. No one would ever let a stranger sleep on them on the tube, most Londoners shit themselves if you accidentally make eye contact whilst commuting.

Does the post specifically refer to Jewish/black? If not then Yabvu and need to get a life

you are seeing things that aren't there

Calm down and don't see everything as sinister .

The Jewish/Black aspects were very much referred to.

As I said, Id not be so if the photo was acompanied by a story of one man simply allowing a fellow tube passanger to sleep on his shoulder. It was the references to their race/religion that stood out.

yabu and you know it.

Erm what? So the pic shows black/Jewish but this isn't in any way mentioned by the commentary?

YABU and thinking way too much into it.

Also it sounds a bit shit, not even really that emotive compared to most FB guff. Move on OP, move on

Right so it is mentioned in the copy?

We need it word for word

One of my friends liked this and yes it is made a big deal of the black man falling asleep on the Jewish mans shoulder. Load of bollocks the same as all these Facebook viral things.

the full story is here - the picture is about people doing a good dead an being human ffs

I saw this a couple of months ago & it never occurred to me that it was a Jewish/black angle at all. I judt thought it was saying we should all be kinder to our fellow commuters.

Yes it is mentioned. I said that.

I saw a picture and thought "ahh isnt that funny, a man has fallen asleep on another mans shoulder"

The wording then goes on ti explain how one man is black and the other is Jewish and isnt the Jewish man marvellous for allowing the black man to sleep on his shoulder.