Quote Originally Posted by Hu6e View Post
I want to discuss a couple of issues I have encountered at work. They have been bugging the hell out of me, and I am looking for a few other opinions. If you would be so kind.

I work in a male dominated workplace, with predominantly white and arabic men. I am white myself, early 30's. A few months ago, over lunch, the issue of the recent legalization of gay marriage came up. Everyone around the table said it was abhorrent, a travisty on our nation. and would ultimately lead to underage marriage and rampant paedophilia. Everyone except me was Catholic. Highly devout. I am a militant atheist. I laughed at them all, saying they should stop listening to talkback radio, and proceeded to provide actual facts of countries where legalization occurred and the moral fiber did not cease to exist. And I kinda told them all to fuck off and stop being so ridiculous. If they want to talk to their sky friend, then that is ok, just dont let your beliefs affect my, or anyone else's way of life. Extremely displeased faces grimaced at me. They seemed to be the sort of people with whom an intellectual challenge was a sign of weakness. "Ah fuck off ya gay cunt". Nice.

After this, the demeanor and attitude became, and has become quite toxic. Other people of Asian descent are all labelled as "fucking Chinese". At a recent bbq, some Chinese (with a limited grasp of English), were told "it's ok, come eat, it's not dog! We dont eat dog in Australia!" I swiftly replied "what the fuck man? you cant say that shit you fucking racist cunt!". I was hella burning. Just a few examples of the shitty attitudes I encounter, and find myself defending other races. I could write a book, but just wanted to give a few examples.

Am I being too precious? Or is this type of rhetoric archaic, and provides nothing but negativity to our society?

Or is this too deep for a forum about sexing??
...predominantly white and arabic men. Hmmm... Are you all tradesmen? Where's Beta when you need him? He'll tell you what he thinks of Arabs. He writes some funny, hateful shit. From my experience, 'middle eastern' men are not so partial to homosexuality, especially the 'Catholics'.

"it's ok, come eat, it's not dog! We dont eat dog in Australia!" For every time I have heard this line and given a dollar, I would be a millionaire. When asked, I tell people I'm not Asian, I'm fucking Chinese, and proud of it. In all of my 30 years living here, from time to time, I do come across this same ol' joke. I grew up in school with wogs, lebos, skips, nips, gooks and every other denomination that was thrown in with me in the early 90's. I had to grow a thick skin, put up with a few jibes, gave a lebo a bloody nose, just to make a point that I wasn't going to tolerate this nonsense...

What you're doing is admirable, sticking up for them, but... they will need to stick up for themselves one day, and deal with the racism one way or another... It's inherently everywhere. Honestly, I am guilty of it too at times and have been intolerant to mainland Chinese. Except the ML's... I'm nice to them...

Lastly, dog meat. If you ever try it, make sure it's black. I tried this in Vietnam, with a couple of Japanese backpackers. I can't say the steam versioned was very appetizing. But, the soupy brothy kind is yummo! Especially the drumsticks...