[quote=AN][quote=outtamojo]A little anecdote, close to home for me, coming soon to some of us here:
So my sister-in-law on the East coast goes in to the local doc in a box urgent care. New patient so no medical history so you get interviewed. She disclosed she was a stay at home mom, took care of kids and elderly parents- taking them places and translating for them. (they are Korean). During her exam, male doctor starts talking about Trump and then ranting about immigrants out of the blue and then tells sil her parents should go back to Korea if they can’t speak English.
Did he always speak to his patients like that, or did he become emboldened by the prospect of institutionalized covert racism coming back in favor?
If he had just taken the time to learn about her parents, he would discover how they legally came to the country with nothing and built a mini empire of laundromats and liquor stores. They do speak some English, heavily accented, but they do the best they can. Are they not the embodiment of what was the American dream? And yet the emboldened racist can only see them as foreigners who don’t belong.
Yah, sure, Trump had nothing to do with this and was nowhere near the building so how why was this his fault..[/quote]
+1
This is exactly the $hit I’m afraid of that BG and the many Trump supporter fail to see. Just look at what happened to the Japanese not too long ago.[/quote]
Lol, I’ve gotten shit like that here just trying to rent out my places. I remember there was one guy that had a shitty credit score that I wasn’t planning to rent to anyway. He came after my first candidate decided to sigb s lease. I told him that someone else before him wanted to rent the place and that hebhad everything already signed. This second guy ended up getting pissed and told me to go back to China, lol.
I guess he would have been even more pissed if I told him the first guy that signed the lease was an H1B. Lol
To be fair, I don’t this sort of racism was any more or less than before Trump. Its probably always existed. Its just now people probably think it is acceptable behavior.
It also usually happens more with older people I think. Hopefully our kids know better.
My kid actually came home and asked if Trump gets elected if we are getting deported, lol. I asked why? And she said everyone school is talking about how Trump hates girls and colored people. Lol. Her friends are pretty mixed, so I am sure that means their parents are talking about it.
