No one on this board is without prejudice of at least one 'group' of people. Let s/he without sin, cast the first stone. Too many times I hear people say they are sick of the racism against such-and-such group of minorities, then they turn around and start mocking 'rednecks' and ripping their 'group' of people feeling superior, and think it is ok because 'rednecks' aren't a 'government protected minority group' like blacks and/or homosexuals are. How is that not hypocritical? Those people are no better than the guy who thinks 'gooks are ruining the country'.
I do not condone what the delivery guy said/says, and do not agree of course, but it isn't illegal for him to say such things or think them. It is not wise of course, but not illegal. He has the right to feel the way he wants to feel about anyone. If he chooses to express it verbally, that is his choice and he should accept the consequences, although no one has any right to attack him physically first just because he said something they don't like. Names and words are just that. Words. As long as he doesn't physically carry out his prejudices against the people he doesn't like, there is nothing anyone can do. You might not like it, but unfortunately life isn't that fair. Please don't become one of those people who are 'professionally offended' by the tiniest thing. While it isn't pleasant hearing it, just chalk it up to the guy having his own feelings about things, and they are different than yours. Just accept it and move on with your day, since you only deal with him professionally, not socially. Trying to control someones thoughts and feelings because you think they are wrong (whether they are or not) is just another step towards a BigBrother thought-crime society like in the book "1984". Not everyone thinks the same way as anyone else.
As long as he doesn't openly discriminate against the customers themselves or say anything to their face, he isn't doing anything that would even warrant his job being lost. If he did, the company would be discriminating against someone who has different opinions and thoughts than the majority.
One day down the road, it will likely bite him in the butt, but that is his issue, not yours.
My grandfather is probably most like the delivery guy. He uses racial slurs all the time and has similar feelings. And in the presence of people of a race he doesn't like, he is courteous and polite-the way that he was taught to behave as a child. I have asked him to not use the slurs in front of my boys because I don't want them to repeat them, and he has obliged without hesitation. I am not going to stop associating with my grandfather just because he is how he has been for the past 65 years.
I do not condone what the delivery guy said/says, and do not agree of course, but it isn't illegal for him to say such things or think them. It is not wise of course, but not illegal. He has the right to feel the way he wants to feel about anyone. If he chooses to express it verbally, that is his choice and he should accept the consequences, although no one has any right to attack him physically first just because he said something they don't like. Names and words are just that. Words. As long as he doesn't physically carry out his prejudices against the people he doesn't like, there is nothing anyone can do. You might not like it, but unfortunately life isn't that fair. Please don't become one of those people who are 'professionally offended' by the tiniest thing. While it isn't pleasant hearing it, just chalk it up to the guy having his own feelings about things, and they are different than yours. Just accept it and move on with your day, since you only deal with him professionally, not socially. Trying to control someones thoughts and feelings because you think they are wrong (whether they are or not) is just another step towards a BigBrother thought-crime society like in the book "1984". Not everyone thinks the same way as anyone else.
As long as he doesn't openly discriminate against the customers themselves or say anything to their face, he isn't doing anything that would even warrant his job being lost. If he did, the company would be discriminating against someone who has different opinions and thoughts than the majority.
One day down the road, it will likely bite him in the butt, but that is his issue, not yours.
My grandfather is probably most like the delivery guy. He uses racial slurs all the time and has similar feelings. And in the presence of people of a race he doesn't like, he is courteous and polite-the way that he was taught to behave as a child. I have asked him to not use the slurs in front of my boys because I don't want them to repeat them, and he has obliged without hesitation. I am not going to stop associating with my grandfather just because he is how he has been for the past 65 years.
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