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As a Latino minority, promptly go fuck yourself. You and the PC crowd are the scourge against "getting shit done". Go back to /r/shitredditsays you twat.

If you're offended by things like this you are either:

a) Extremely sheltered. b) A racist yourself.

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how is it necessary to make racist comments in order to "get shit done"? will your production systems all crash if you don't make a minimum of 5 jokes about nappy hair and malt liquor a day? have you encountered a nasty bug in rails that can only be fixed by exposing it to clips of Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's?

It's not a matter of it being necessary or unnecessary. It's a matter of letting small things slide or taking them in strides. Haven't you ever seen a movie where men jostle each other and call each other things too crass to type in here? Do they whine and run to the boss about how "mean they were"?

Of course not, because clearly in this case it's just a case of men being men and flinging the usual shit at each other. I'm surprised I have to spell this out.

Don't you have friends?

> Don't you have friends?

How often do you ask your black friends if they know how to rap?

The idea is that BY LAW, you should not have to be subjected to that kind of environment in the workplace. If you don't like it, then get the law changed.

Wow. Wouldn't call myself sheltered or racist but I am a British Asian who has experienced racism at work.

I was once accused of being prejudiced by a british asian after we fell out over some business. Prior to that this person had boasted to me about how despite their family having lived in Trinidad for generations there was 'not one drop of mixed blood' in their family

@barking. So what? Honestly, so what? Are you trying to say that even by the standards of other prejudiced people you come across as prejudiced? Or perhaps you're implying that one act of prejudice by someone from a "minority" means that it's open season on all minorities?

Maybe people are more likely to perceive the behaviour of others towards them as racist, if they are racist themselves? That perhaps the accuser should be looked at as critically as the accused.

Maybe people are more likely to perceive the behaviour of others towards them as racist, if they are racist themselves?

Really? The "I know you are, but what am I" defense?

OK I had to look that up to understand what you meant (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=i%20know%20yo...).

You're suggesting that my previous response is a total fail.

At the risk of my appearing to be totally thick, can I ask you to explain why?

I brought up my race to show sergiotapia that I too was in a minority, not to imply that somehow being a british asian made me more trustworthy.

This place is ridiculous. They're calling him racist, a troll, coward, little boy? These people are being upvoted for this? It's pathetic and embarrassing to be lumped in with this crowd.

You're being downvoted for speaking the truth. They're not downvoting you because you called someone racist or sheltered, at least you know that. It can't be because you told him to go fuck himself since being civil obviously isn't something they care about either.