I guess I was already having a bad day...
yesterday, Friday, at the end of a VERY long day...(dentists are inundated with pre-weekend 'emergency' visits - the tooth has been hurting for six weeks but "what if it gets worse over the weekend??!" - and I was just worn out from the tumult.
So this guy shows up in the late afternoon, and he hears that I have MSNBC on in my private office with the sound turned up a bit, and he says, "shame that kid had a drug problem and did that..."
I went right to Defcon 1. I retorted instantly, "I don't think it's a drug problem, I think he wanted to kill black people and maybe he really wanted to kill an articulate, charismatic state senator." His reply was, "I don't know about that." My reply to him: "Well, I guess you don't know much about much because before he assassinated the senator and murdered the other eight he said something about his women being raped by their kind. Just like Mr. Trump did the other day talking about people coming over the border."
Silence ensued.
I then took care of his trivial problem and sent him on his way. And to answer the questions:
1. I didn't bring it up, he did.
2. One patient more or less is irrelevant. 200 nice people would be great, one here and there at this stage of my career is meaningless.
3. I'm good and goddamned sick of the RW meme. You wanna do this elsewhere, that's your right and your business. In my business, in my home, I'm not gonna listen to it passively. I dont' HAVE to treat anyone if I'm not in the middle of a case and I sure as hell don't have to put up with anyone's bullshit and lies. Not at age 62 I don't. Nothing ever seems to make a difference in this country: all those kids were murdered in Connecticut and in no time at all there's poison out there that these kids never existed - that the massacre was all a lie set up by the Obama Administration so that they could take the precious guns away. There are no depths to which these creeps will not sink. It's a Nazification of the United States and it's DISGUSTING that it's allowed to persist and grow exponentially.
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But you're welcome. 
I can't take the rw crap. I just can't. I will walk out if it's on somewhere and they refuse to change it.
But I live in Chicago, so it's not as usual here to have it playing.
Not fast enough is right. I feel like I have been waiting a lifetime. Well, I have. But it is slowly starting. We have Occupy to thank for that
Really not sure what I said to deserve that but I appreciate it
damn disgusting it is...thank you........
... never piss off someone who's about to put power tools in your mouth.
and you'll be billed for tearing the arms off the chair
we understand.
pay them no mind. When complete strangers feel free to walk right up to me to share racist humor in public, we need to change things around. I've become a lot less 'easy-going' then I use to be. And I like it. The word is spreading around, if you don't want to be called on that shit, don't talk it around me. Makes my life much better.
That silence always speaks the proverbial volumes.
When you get silence as a response (or retort), OR you get a mumbling "wellll, I dunno....", then that means you've hit home, and probably a little too hard. That, I think, is the human version of "TILT!" Which we used to see in the cartoons when the robot's or computer's wires suddenly got crossed and rendered it unable to function further.
Unfortunately, WE have to be the news now. Somebody who embraces the group-brainwash of the Pox Noise/hate radio/GOPspeak world is probably not very likely to watch a different news source like MSNBC. So they won't otherwise get much about the real world outside the bubble. They won't get their repeated and massaged and manipulated talking points that they're force-fed on Pox with all those pre-programmed-and-approved talking heads, biased anchors, and agenda-driven hosts and cohosts.
YOU AND I have to be there to debunk, to rebut, to fact-check, indeed, to REALITY-CHECK, and CORRECT the record - to poke holes in their comfy little bubble. Besides, MSNBC doesn't have the greatest coverage or distribution. So we've GOTTA be there to take up the slack.
Btw - I'm 62 too!
They think it is their god-given duty to spread their meme. Anytime they hear of something like this they just parrot out whatever racist dog-whistle they have learned from their training class on the AM radio (which their opponents should be doing, instead of whining about it).
It's actually somewhat effective. They become a bully, in that people who then disagree are then marginalized by being seen as the outcast simply because no one else spoke up. Tough in your case, being the boss. 
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I am going to guess he sees you as a white guy, (he ain't searchin' out dentists of color, I suspect, though I have been wrong. lots.) and one of the interesting things about their mindset is the research which shows that, frequently, conservatives think people who _look_ like them, think like them. That's a big mistake when it comes to you and me and a few others, who have infiltrated their camp quite by accident. Of birth.
I suspect he was shocked. Shocked I tell you.
But it plays into that first point. They really aren't trying to change your mind. They assume you think as they do, and they are just making sure you are up on the latest training. If you disagree, you are broken and not worth messing with.
I wonder if he left your place and went running to some sympathetic white folk.
Doesn't it? I agree with your post 100%. 
and you seized it. no apology required when you do the right thing.
important to success. Or they can care more about protecting their little profit. Not both.
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Memories Pizza. Too subtle?
We all do better when everyone does better.
Lesson 2: Take the case of a professional, which means you either have the best interests of your clients at heart, or your own profit. If they evince behaviors that are harmful, such as smoking, you suggest they don't, unless perhaps you profit from treating smoking and might lose them if you pressure them too much.
If they are bigots such behavior can have a negative impact on their lives and others, and even lead to lowered profits for everyone. A professional, then, who suggests that it is not their business sounds a lot more like they are walking away from their professional duty, or are simply more concerned about profit.
They might even suggest that since they are, say, an architect or pizza ship owner, behavior isn't their problem.
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To understand this, you have to go back to what [the] young brother here referred to as the house Negro and the field Negro -- back during slavery. There was two kinds of slaves. There was the house Negro and the field Negro. The house Negroes - they lived in the house with master, they dressed pretty good, they ate good 'cause they ate his food -- what he left. They lived in the attic or the basement, but still they lived near the master; and they loved their master more than the master loved himself. They would give their life to save the master's house quicker than the master would. The house Negro, if the master said, "We got a good house here," the house Negro would say, "Yeah, we got a good house here." Whenever the master said "we," he said "we." That's how you can tell a house Negro.
If the master's house caught on fire, the house Negro would fight harder to put the blaze out than the master would. If the master got sick, the house Negro would say, "What's the matter, boss, we sick?" We sick! He identified himself with his master more than his master identified with himself.
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From: http://field-negro.blogspot.com/2012/05/its-21st-century-but-house-negro-is.html
Yes it is. When bigots make blatantly racists statement and you don't say anything, they, and everyone around them, assume you are on their side.
And that gives them more power from one's inaction. Not very professional.
Your case may or may not apply.
Thank you for speaking your mind, for speaking the truth. You might have made him think today, which could be a rarity.
@ PCIntern- I too am a leftie dentist (who also saw a lot of emergencies on Fridays 🙈
but I'm all alone here in Melbourne Florida, which is awash in diehard faux news watching idiots. Hope you found a better place to practice. It's good to hear from a dentist who thinks right.
@ babylonsister- Welcome to town! Hope you like it here better than I do.
Wired his mouth shut, and blamed it on drugs. 
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You not only educated the guy (hopefully) but if you lost him as a patient, you "put your money where your mouth is", which is a very brave and honorable thing to do. Much respect to you, sir! 
So damn tired of hearing RW bullshit. I normally try to be diplomatic, but enough is enough.
Hugs to you.
Why? When did she rape his women? 
