i don't know where you get off going after gypsies but that is really out of line. maybe you don't know about the history of persecution of the romani people culminating in the extermination of up to 1.5 million during the holocaust.
if your co-workers all called a group of patrons "n-----"s or something similarly offensive, would you just go along with it saying, "oh, i didn't make up the epithet"? pretty sure you would not.
i am very aware of the fact. should i edit what other people have said because i feel what they said was wrong? if i wasn't really uncomfortable about the word i wouldn't have made such an issue about it in the posting i made. i was commenting on how rude they were in this and previous instances, not justifying a racist word. and they're not gypsies. they're greek, i think. that's just what some people at work call them.
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if your co-workers all called a group of patrons "n-----"s or something similarly offensive, would you just go along with it saying, "oh, i didn't make up the epithet"? pretty sure you would not.
really out line, deb.
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should i edit what other people have said because i feel what they said was wrong? if i wasn't really uncomfortable about the word i wouldn't have made such an issue about it in the posting i made. i was commenting on how rude they were in this and previous instances, not justifying a racist word. and they're not gypsies. they're greek, i think. that's just what some people at work call them.
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