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TommyT139

(2,097 posts)
11. Reddit's BU group has a reasonable backstory
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 11:49 PM
Nov 14

As you may imagine, the conversation on this topic is...lively. The block indent paragraphs are the redditor's.

Summarizing some other comments for visibility (and adding my own detail):

Zac is Jewish. His great (?) grandparents fled to the UK during the Holocaust. He is the product of immigrants. He is American by passport (was born in the US), but he has lived most of his life in the UK. The only thing that separates him from the car wash employees is privilege, like that of being born in the right place at the right time.

Also Daddy is a lawyer for a pyramid scheme [link removed but available at Reddit thread]

From
https://old.reddit.com/r/BostonU/comments/1ox3bul/irony_of_zac_segal/

Lots more discussion in the BU subreddit.
https://old.reddit.com/r/BostonU/

I use "old" instead of "www" in the URL because I don't have a reddit account and the older format works better with my browser.

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