Racism

I don't want to tell people about pesonal stuff, but i have to dhare about something that happened tonight.

My wife has taken a part time job in a takeaway, and i was there to pick up some food and say hello. These two locals walk in, both seem like the dregs of the earth, and as i have grown up in a council estate i know junkies and ex-cons when i see them. The guy orders yadda yadda and as soon as i saw them i knew they were scum. . .I got that "get ready for trouble" feeling you get if you know what i mean.

So, as they had no reason to think i had anything to do with the counter staff they acted like total scum. Asking "I hope you wont be giving us Rat!!" (i'm paraphrasing, but the word rat was involved). MY wife didn't even cop on at first as she had no idea why someone would talk about rat so had to ask twice. The guy didn't push it as he saw me and wasn't hard enough to put his hand up a stairwell, but i got the feeling that he was a typical Irish racist prick. (you have to be here to understandwhat i mean).

They then left and returned with a similar attitude, this time because they asked for salt and vinegar to be put on their chips(fries) and as the establishment had saches of both my wife asked if they wanted the salt and vinegar on their chips...."well i don't want it outside them, do i"...you have to understand that i'm not being melodramatic here, i was so far from punching this guy to unconciousness you wouldn't believe. I can just imagine what she has to go through on a day to day basis if this is just an unfortunate snippit.


My point....i F--ing hate racists.

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
typical Irish racist prick

Originally posted by Ice Cold
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Your wife has my symapthies.
I make comments about racism because it is stupid. People are people, they just speak different and have different food and customs.

Kudos to you as well for keeping your cool.

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
You have to live here to know what i meant by that phrase. 10 years ago the only foreign looking dude in Ireland was Phil Lynnot...andhe was dead. And Irish isn't a race, i checked.

Some people never move past the idea that "they are different and I hate them". Small minded and filled with hate. Someone taught them how to act this way, probably parents. Growing up in the deep South (US), I know that you believe what Mom and Dad tell you until you stop and think about it. But even then the residue remains at an emotional level, a monster that snarls and is never quite defeated.

Originally posted by MontyMoose
Some people never move past the idea that "they are different and I hate them". Small minded and filled with hate. Someone taught them how to act this way, probably parents. Growing up in the deep South (US), I know that you believe what Mom and Dad tell you until you stop and think about it. But even then the residue remains at an emotional level, a monster that snarls and is never quite defeated.

It is unfortunate that there is a truism which crosses all cultures, races, countries, and belief systems - somewhere there is a component of the group which sucks. It does not matter where in the spectrum they fall; there are idiots everywhere, and of all ideologies.

*edit* This is not self-righteous banter. I've been that idiot too, somewhere, sometime.

Sorry to hear that, chuckles.

Yeah, unfortunately you always have pricks who believe
that some people, just by having a different skin tone, a
different culture, and another mother tongue, are
automatically less than they are.

Most of the time it is uneducated trash and, funnily, they
are the most insecure little scumbags. Just take a look at
some of the gun lovers in this website, for example.

...

Racism is cured with jobs, education, and a shrink to fix
the horrible insecurities.

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
I don't want to tell people about pesonal stuff, but i have to dhare about something that happened tonight.

My wife has taken a part time job in a takeaway, and i was there to pick up some food and say hello. These two locals walk in, both seem like the dregs of the earth, and as i have grown up in a council estate i know junkies and ex-cons when ...[text shortened]... is if this is just an unfortunate snippit.


My point....i F--ing hate racists.

Originally posted by mlprior
I kind of had the idea that the whole of Europe was pretty mixed and open minded about race.

Originally posted by Palynka
What does "rat" mean in this context?

Racists = scum.

Originally posted by lausey
Huck's wife is of Chinese origin. The scum were propagating the stereotype that oriental people eat rats.

Originally posted by hopscotch
Thanks Lausey, I had to read all the down to your post to figure out why this was racist.

Abhor racism (and most other isms), but roasted rat is not bad you know.