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In reply to the discussion: Got into it with a teabagger at work today, regarding bagger racism. [View all]JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)25. She's also defending what she says in "white only" company.
Racists think that they can say racist things just so long as there is no one of that race present.
No one will know, so no one will be offended, so its not really racist.
A real racist would use the N-word openly, in a mixed race setting.
And since she doesn't do that, she isn't a racist.
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Got into it with a teabagger at work today, regarding bagger racism. [View all]
11 Bravo
Oct 2013
OP
Ya, when you tell them facts and reasons they get this vein protruding from their temples
SummerSnow
Oct 2013
#11
Hostile work environment: "Coworkers keep talking about facts when I'm around!" n/t
Beartracks
Oct 2013
#41
We have a black (or part black) Prez, so it's a post-racial world, dontchaknow!
Beartracks
Oct 2013
#62
Thanks, you might be right. I don't personally give a fuck, but I actually am using a friend's ...
11 Bravo
Oct 2013
#33