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Originally Posted by NuclearFart
Out of curiosity, do you ever call your work colleagues like this out on their racism?
I guess you're just hitting your head against the wall, but to be forced to silently listen to the stupidity of your colleagues would destroy me. I don't think I would be very popular at your workplace.
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I won't flat out tell them they're being racist, because work would get really awkward, but I do like to challenge them on it. When he says she "didn't carry herself" like a First Lady, I ask why he feels that way?
"Well she just looked like a linebacker!"
Last week he was talking about how elegant Melania is and how much of a contrast it is. I countered that she was a model, but Michelle was a lawyer, that Michelle did everything a First Lady needed to do. He complained that she went on Ellen and was silly and how much a disgrace that was to the position of First Lady. I countered that Trump is tweeting about SNL.
This is a man who at the heart and soul of the matter would never actively hate another person, outside of political ideology he's one of my favorite people to work with, but it's this misguided idea that a woman has to be a dainty little housewife to be the proper first lady that he can't shake. He wants a Laura Bush who stands quietly by and doesn't voice much opinion.
Also again, subtle racism that he would never grasp as racism. These are the people I talk about when I mention how racism is very subtle and unintentional. This isn't a guy who would advocate for the KKK, not even close, but at the same time he sees Melania Trump as an ideal First Lady (while she hides in a penthouse in NYC at taxpayers' expense) and saw Michelle Obama as a disgrace (while she was advocating for childrens' health and initiatives to get women education both here and abroad, etc). He doesn't grasp that his opinion is shaded with racism, but it's absolutely there.
(This man's wife, however, is an avid Fox News viewer and is openly racist, so it's unsurprising that he picks up on her views, even if he's not actively trying to)