Originally Posted by F22B Prelude
But you seem to have worked thru all that hatred, and from your latter posts that i have read you seem to be pretty well off. I think every single one of us white/black/asian or whatever have experienced crude racial biased jokes when we were growing up, its just a part of life nowadays.
See thats what it boils down to really. Racism will never be eliminated people will always be narrow minded regarding people of any race different than their own.
Since this is an unfortunate fact of life, it can be eliminated from the work environment. Last thing I wanna do is go to work and hear someone using any racist term regardless of how it is meant.
I am not going to lie I have probably used a lot more derogatory terms than I care to list. I am not racist though and admittedly they were used in ignorance. That is al it is in the end is ignorance and xenophobia, and the more you can isolate and make a person or race to be less human the easier it is to hate a group, these terms help to accomplish this and it works a little bit at a time.
If a person hears the term enough then when it comes down to it you can simply say, "oh it's ok it's just one of those (insert racist term) they don't count".