It’s psychological projection with a heaping helping of hipocrisy.
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No need. The smile is what makes the difference.
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It’s a two fold observation:
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That around the holidays, tempers can be short and people can be grumpy. ESPEICALLY when it comes to the check out line. OMG, you will never find more people who have to be somewhere else 10 min ago than you will in a holiday check out line.
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There has always been a problem with racism.
So we have overlap here where someone who can’t control their emotions goes off on some one of a different race. I’ve agreed there has been an uptick of issues from the election, but shit like this was happening all 8 years of Obama and before that. It’s ugly that has always been there.
So last year maybe she wouldn’t have brought race into it, but this year she thinks enough people - in Kentucky - think like her and she can get away with it. Or maybe last year she would have done the exact same thing. And maybe 10 years ago she would have thrown in a good ol’ slur for good measure.
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Because the two aren’t related at all.
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There is this ridiculous “victimization” idea that seems to be part of this and the entire alt-right movement: they are making life worse for us, and the “they” is always a minority.
News flash: minorities aren’t getting some great deal you are being denied. You can get public assistance too if you’re going through tough times, and you probably won’t get stopped by the police all the time too.
I saw today Nazi trolls are harassing residents of Whitefish MT, home of alt-right goon Richard Spencer. It seems his mother has gotten some grief because of her son’s views, and so they’ve taken it upon themselves to harass and dox “Jews” in the town, because now Nazis are the real victims of hate speech.
Nope. If you promote hate and people call you out for that, you’re not being persecuted, you’re being told to stop acting like a jerk.
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I like how in the transcript only one of the two occurrences of f*ck is censored.
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Well, unless I’m already peeved for some directly related reason, I would sooner ignore than stoop to the same level, if you know what I mean. But somebody like this, I typically either laugh uproariously while pointing at them, or if children are present I start calmly explaining to them how humans seem to have an innate tendency to scapegoat and stereotype other humans, and why they shouldn’t give in to the temptation to do so.
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I understand that I’m painting with a broad brush, but it’s important to not ignore the demographics of who voted for Trump. Baby boomers were over-represented, that’s just a fact. My generalization isn’t perfect, I know there are lots of people from that generation that don’t think that way, but it does loosely correspond to reality and I stand by it.
My theory behind it all is that many boomers still consume news and commentary from traditional outlets like radio stations. Most of which are all super hardcore right wing, with personalities that tell their audience how to think and behave. I’ve seen many in my life go off the deep-end from consuming too much talk-radio. In fact one of my neighbors in California flipped-out, destroyed his apartment, threw out live-in girlfirend out of a fit of rage about the “liberals” that he heard about on the radio.
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Nothing says “love thy neighbor” better than spouting off a racist tirade at the local mall.
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I don’t really like hypocrites either. And I try to get all Zen when I go out shopping, which can be frustrating even when it isn’t the holidays. And having worked retail for over 5 years, I try to be cool with the workers.
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Trump voter.
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This woman just needs somebody to give her a big hug and shout HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
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They’re obviously being “intolerant” of your intolerance, because they believe that hatred is a right-wing value we are “discriminating” against.
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HA! My (foreign born) mom calls Trader Joes, Traders Joe. Despite explaining that the store is ostensibly named after Trader Joe and the store name can be considered to be shorthand for Traders Joe’s Store, she still continues. It’s charming I guess 
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Boaty McBoatShutUpFace?
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But this ‘cutting in line’ event, which I don’t think that’s exactly what happened, parallels the extreme right-wing analogy that’s been floating around about good ol’ white American’s standing in line and Obama is waving immigrants and minorities to the front of the line (affirmative action and what-not) leaving those white folk behind. In this woman’s mind this is literally what just happened writ large to validate that damn analogy. She’s probably more entrenched now than before.
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Then why normalize this behavior?
It’s bizarre, we already know that not everyone who has a bad day is a racist piece of shit. She needs no excuses for her specific choices, especially if you don’t approve of her particular outlet.
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I can’t stand JC Penney’s either.
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