The not so Great Racism in Canada Thread

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Originally Posted by lio45

I suppose in this case you'd probably be shocked to learn that someone who's still in my employment has, over the past few years, addressed several times, to his face, a Vietnamese businessman who was our commercial tenant (running a restaurant in one of my units) as "you fucking chink", as well as several times, to his face again, a Congolese businessman who's our commercial tenant (and still is years later, as I write this; I just gave him a nice Covid rent break because I like him) as "you fucking nigger", after which in all cases I then privately apologized on that person's behalf. (That's a good employee who's old and "rednecky" (grew up in a rural area in this corner of Quebec) and has no filter and doesn't care about being PC, and who does the job.)

You can also add to the above my Southern USA property manager who once when visiting a property with me and finding very amateur electrical work, pointed out "that's what we call 'nigger-rigged' here" (while acknowledging it's an extremely un-PC way to put it).

If someone does a good job in my view, they're going to be able to get away with a lot of such things as far as I'm concerned (mental incapacitation a.k.a. religion, homophobia a.k.a. religion, mild racism, mild sexism, etc.) because I'm results-focused; that's what mostly matters to me.

Not surprised at all

btw, "not PC" usually mean something closer to asking "where are you REALLY from?" than calling someone a "fucking n****er"