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    So, just curious - what's the general consensus? Do customers make racist/sexist/homophobic remarks to the hapless cashier before them because they know said hapless cashier is on the clock and cannot respond as they'd like to? Or do they really think that everyone thinks the same way they do?

    Because if I have to hear one more pot bellied, hairy cretin make a snide remark about Caitlyn Jenner, I may lose my shit.
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    I personally think it's both. They think we agree with them and we can't respond too forcefully when we inevitably don't.
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    • #3
      I used to get stuff like that on the phone. "How can I keep--y'know, THOSE PEOPLE--from calling on my apartment-for-rent ad?" Or people who say things like, "I didn't sell my car yet because people kept trying to jew me down on the price." WHAT??!

      It frosts me that people assume that I'm as bigoted as they are. I just usually go very, very cold and excruciatingly polite, and get them off the phone as soon as possible. One of these days, though, I may snap. Just glad I don't get those types of remarks much anymore.
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      • #4
        Quoth Boomslang View Post

        Because if I have to hear one more pot bellied, hairy cretin make a snide remark about Caitlyn Jenner, I may lose my shit.
        I wish he'd come to me because I'd frustrate him with "I don't know who that is." I also like to make remarks like that in comments about various members of a certain local sports team I am sick to death of hearing about. I really don't know the names of any of those guys, either.
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        • #5
          Miss Manners recommends a chilly "I beg your pardon?" to such remarks. If the remarks were supposed to be a joke, she says a silent, cold stare that lets the remark hang in the air while you are visibly not laughing is also effective.
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          • #6
            In my neck of the woods, it's likely both. When I was in both the repair center and the retail hell, I would have the various 'ists come and try to convert me. Problem with me is that I love a good debate, but with them, it feels like I'm up against an unarmed opponent.

            It gets more entertaining when the 'ist finds the company FB page.. as case in point, today. I witnessed a fine piece of WTF posted by a "customer" to our local NBC station's page. Basic gist is the ijit accusing the NBC channel of "changing their avatar to gay pride colors," and "will take his viewing business to ABC from now on." I could almost hear the poor NBC facebook intern head-desking at a high rate of speed. The only response from the NBC station? "We haven't change our image, sir."

            The image? The NBC Peacock with the station call sign on it. For those not familiar with the US stations, NBC's mascot, the Peacock has had it's apparently fabulous feathers since the advent of color tv.. So about 1956. This guy looked like he was born before then, so it would have been that way for most of his life. I guess he just now realized how "offensive" the mascot is now.

            Fortunately for my entertainment, while NBC couldn't call him an ijit, all the rest of Facebook will gladly do it for them.
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            • #7
              I'll bet he's STILL wondering where to send his complaint letter about those gay pride rainbows that show up in the sky after it rains.... who's responsible for THAT recent development?! I DEMAND TO KNOW! Or I'll take my weather elsewhere!!!!
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              • #8
                Quoth Boomslang View Post
                So, just curious - what's the general consensus? Do customers make racist/sexist/homophobic remarks to the hapless cashier before them because they know said hapless cashier is on the clock and cannot respond as they'd like to? Or do they really think that everyone thinks the same way they do?

                Because if I have to hear one more pot bellied, hairy cretin make a snide remark about Caitlyn Jenner, I may lose my shit.
                "I guess she was too ashamed to be associated with the same gender as someone like yourself"

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                • #9
                  Quoth Argabarga View Post
                  I'll bet he's STILL wondering where to send his complaint letter about those gay pride rainbows that show up in the sky after it rains.... who's responsible for THAT recent development?! I DEMAND TO KNOW! Or I'll take my weather elsewhere!!!!
                  I bet that his head would explode if he reads Genesis 9:13.

                  Quoth Genesis 9:13 (NIV)
                  I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
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                  • #10
                    "I didn't sell my car yet because people kept trying to jew me down on the price."
                    That's a weird one; I had never heard that expression until a few years ago, when within a week or so I heard both my in-laws and one of my own parents use it.

                    The crazy thing is, my father-in-law, who used it first, is the least prejudiced person I've ever seen. He literally doesn't care what color you are or who you worship or who you're sleeping with so long as you work hard. He only hates lazy people. It's just a phrase people have used so long I guess they forgot what it originally meant. That doesn't make it right, of course, but that's how it struck me at the time.
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                    • #11
                      Just a friendly reminder not to take this into religious/political (etc) territory. That belongs on Fratching, guys.
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                      • #12
                        I love the people who post on Facebook about the Caitlyn Jenner thing getting plastered all over the place and dominating the news... but they're the only ones posting about it. I wouldn't see half as much about Caitlyn if they they didn't keep posting about it!

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                        • #13
                          I don't even understand where half these slurs/stereotypes come from (think specifically of the jew comment). I'm always like, "Huh, I don't see it." Like, where did people even get the idea? I think next time someone uses a term like that I'll ask them about the etymology, all curious-like, and make them think about what they're saying.
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                          • #14
                            Quoth An Haddock View Post
                            I love the people who post on Facebook about the Caitlyn Jenner thing getting plastered all over the place and dominating the news... but they're the only ones posting about it. I wouldn't see half as much about Caitlyn if they they didn't keep posting about it!
                            I have no Facebook, tv, or anything. Thus I have no idea of what you are speaking. (don't worry about explaining, I'm not curious)

                            But honestly I haven't had many issues with this sort of thing at my work. At school sometimes people will get a little heated, mostly about political stuff, but I put on headphones and ignore them.
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                            • #15
                              I usually respond to those with the old, "That's an interesting assumption," and then talk about the sale on canned peaches. That's what the Etiquette Hell lady would do, anyway.

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